If there’s anything you need to know

just use YouTube.

I’d forgotten the combination on my bike lock and was not looking forward to taking cutters to the cable to get it off. I watched the video, and in under two minutes I had the mad skills of a master locksmith. Yay!

Okay, maybe not the master of anything other than being a somewhat absent minded bicyclist. I can be at peace with that.

I can’t be at peace with is how easy it is to hack my own lock. If some idiot watching a 1 minute YouTube video (that would be me) can unlock my lock in the next minute– how safe is my bike? Maybe I should just scrap the lock and buy a more secure one. But what if I lose the key or forget the combination again and it’s not hackable? Then I lose the lock because calling a locksmith would cost more than taking cutters to the lock, I have prior experience with this very dilemma– can you tell?

I was going to head down to the library today, I forgot that it was Sunday and they tend to frown on patrons breaking in and perusing the books when they are closed so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

One Response to “If there’s anything you need to know”

  1. you could break into the library so easily now, though! with your new lockpickin’ skillz…