As impressive as most lockpicking videos look, lockpicking is almost never used for bike theft, according to the police.
It is just so much easier and quicker to cut locks with a big bolt cutter than learn to pick dozens of different cylinders (whose construction changes every few years). Not to mention that in reality a thief would often need to pick the lock in horrible conditions ( dirty lock, hanging upside down, lying on the floor, in bad light.....)
July 10, 2020, 6:50 a.m. - Timer
As impressive as most lockpicking videos look, lockpicking is almost never used for bike theft, according to the police. It is just so much easier and quicker to cut locks with a big bolt cutter than learn to pick dozens of different cylinders (whose construction changes every few years). Not to mention that in reality a thief would often need to pick the lock in horrible conditions ( dirty lock, hanging upside down, lying on the floor, in bad light.....)