...prolly the folks that made the lock ya see ? ;)
VesterBrother · February 24, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Makes you remember the key when locking it.. ?
Christian Jensen · February 24, 2009 at 2:39 PM
@steen, that's the only reason I can come up with, too. Which really bothers me. Maybe I'd forget the key 1 out of 1,000 times. Is that worth the struggle the remaining 999 times?
Morten Just · February 24, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Actually the "need key to lock"-function is made to prevent children (or anyone else) from engaging the lock, while in motion. Think "childs foot slips from child seat and hits lock, which goes into wheel" = not good!
nielsphilbert · February 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Ahh, which is why the lock that doesn't slide but turns doesn't have this feature.
Btw I would really like to have the old 7-pin in-jump-over-out lock back. Knowledge is the best key.
Kahrzdn · February 24, 2009 at 11:33 PM
@nipprdk, I see that point, but that could be solved quite easily with a button that had to pushed in order to slide the lock down. The annoying part is fiddling with the gdamn keys
@kahrzdn yeah, me too, I asked for it, but was told they've become illegal
Morten Just · February 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM
@M*rten I totally agree. I have one of these locks on my own bike, and when it's cold or I'm in a hurry four seconds of keyfiddling seems like a lot. Just heard about a lock, that lock your bike when you are something like ten feet away. That's pretty clever. Then it's just: brake;park;run Neat!
nielsphilbert · March 1, 2009 at 2:12 AM
Nippr, do you remember any details about that lock? I've been dreaming about it for years
Morten Just · March 1, 2009 at 2:27 AM
No direct links to it, since it was something a friend of mine told me, but I actually think it was a couple of guys at DTU that was messing about with it. I found this though: www.freepatentsonline.com/6690267.html
nielsphilbert · March 10, 2009 at 2:44 PM
