Honestly, it doesn't look like a good choice of a lock for him. A lock like that, means that even if the bike look like crap, it will attract attention to it. Even if they fail to pick it, they can damage the lock in some way and render it unusable. Then he's out the price of the bike anyway. Better to have a cheap bike, that look even cheaper, and use a ghetto lock on it. Enough to deter someone from just grabbing it and bike away, but not so flashy as to look high end. If someone wants to steal your bike, they will. It doesn't matter what kind of lock you have. Insurance, low cost of replacing the bike, and deterrence are the best defence against bike thieves. Not good locks.
@@Taeerom the effort for this particular lock for the value of the bike makes it entirely pointless to try steal it. That's what the deterrent is and I believe it would be very effective. Why tangle with this lock for a shoddy bike when that other shoddy bike further down the road has a ghetto lock I can smash off much easier.
@@Taeerom I think you misunderstood him. A better bike lock would cost as much as the bike he's using the lock on, this lock is much cheaper than that.
@@Taeerom well if you have a 7,000$ bike you should have a lock that is more than a deterrent he doesn't have a bike that is that much but some people do
Sometimes you see very nice locks... but the way they secure them is stupid; as they can just be removed by unscrewing part of the bike and screwing it back.
Bruh it's been 5 years since the original LPL video on Bowley locks, if LPL can't do it given half a decade, then who will? How long will they take? It's not like Bowley locks have gotten easier to pick in 5 years.
You might be surprised but that actually happened to me😅 I was at school and parked my as usual using a fairly standard lock. Came back and the lock was gone. Bike still at the exact same place. Till this day I wonder: WHY WOULD YOU PICK A BIKE LOCK AND THEN LEAVE THE BIKE
It's not picking you're really in danger from. Aside from maybe a bypass or easy rake. I't if they can show up with a pair of bolt cutters and disappear with it in 10 seconds.
I imagine him doing some real psycho terror where he does nothing apart from repeatedly opening the lock of the door and leaving the door open when the thief is not at home. :D
There's been enough times that he's received GPS trackers in packages sent to him (in a vain attempt to track where he lives). Im sure at some point he has replaced the SIM card in one and dropped it down the seat post tube of his bike. easy enough to do.
Can confirm this is a very robust lock I use it on my personal E-Bike and I can't tell you how many times I've gotten back from class to find a scratch on the lock and a shattered disc from a angle grinder on the ground. One time I came back to the bike with a note on it saying the campus security caught the person that was stealing everyone's bikes
College campus are super high risk areas to leave a bike (thieves can be confident that the owners are going to take a while to come back). If on top of that you're leaving a probably quite expensive E-Bike, the risk increases. I use this lock too and your comment makes me trust it even more lol
do people ever steal just one of the wheels, the handlebar, or the seat? how would you protect these? I thought a lock only protects the frame and maybe one wheel.
@@timhan8667 Yes, I use to lock one wheel and frame only and when I woke up one morning my bike was missing a wheel. Not sure how to avoid this except to get a longer lock or combine two.
I'll never understand the angle grinder. Definitely suspiscious during the day, and way too much noise for the night, all in the hopes to get...a bicycle? In most cases, a guy probably spent more on the grinder and wheels than what the bicycle is worth.
@@plutoplays5625 buying tools doesnt help much if you dont have the skills and knowledge to use them. would need a lot of dexterity and experience to use that thing. most would break the pick.
@@adumbyelloh2563 Bethesda is pretty close to DC, but then again, up there it just all blends together between the different towns really. Just one giant concrete jungle
This is typical in Holland as well, having a lock that more expensive than the bike. The running joke is that you get back to your bike and go "WTF! They stole my lock!!"
@@Spartan0430 no really, sherlock. a bad one though if the first thing my brain thinks about is to take the bike anyways. doesnt make me laugh if that happens
From a Dutch native: the best defense against people stealing your bike, is making sure it looks like it got yoinked from an Amsterdam canal yesterday.
So, back when I was a drug addict and stealing bikes, what I would do is stick a screw driver through the links, and twist it up while pulling, once enough of the links twist up you can usually cut it pretty steady. But most of the time people use light chain and a pair of bolt cutters will work. Love your vids dude! *Note* I left that crappy life behind 7 years ago, I just watch your vids cause they are interesting
@@just-dl thanks man! I was a total zombie back then. I work for a property management company and it's always I little funny to me when I tell my boss great ways to secure things he never would have thought about. He knows my past and also knows he can trust me. It always feels nice when he actually takes my advice
@@TheBenBen253 I took a few detours off the straight and narrow in my younger days. I know how hard it can be to break away. I benefited from some loving cops and stern-looking friends who gently kicked my ass from town to town until I got put back together. 5/8/98 was the day it all crashed on me. I call 1/13/99 the day I got my mind back. Don't look back. Cool that you've got a boss that listens. And, I think it's great you can put the past to good use. I try to keep kids from going off the rails. That's my way to pay it back/forward.
@@just-dl yeah dude. I try to give back by visiting the places I used to sleep (under the bridge and other places where the homeless congregate) I bring food and I bring info on how to get on the methadone/Suboxone clinics. I explain that they can get you a bus pass so you can get to the clinic and around town for other resources. And since so many know me or can vouch that I used to be in the same position, people listen and I've gotten 2 people to go in and get on the program.
@@TheBenBen253 awesome. use your street creds while you can. at some point, your days on the hard won't be remembered by the guys out there. hopefully, the ones you pulled back to safety will be going out...because they'll be remembered. They'll save one more. Who will save one more. That's all i want. To save one more.
if anyone tries to steal LPL bike. I hope they decide to move to another house or else they might hear "A click on two, three is loose and there we go" outside their home.
And as seen in the end of video 892 he's stronger than an iron man. The thief would lock himself in his room out of fear just to remember that the intruder is LPL while under his blanked.🙂
@@Wesley_H are you on Android? If so use CZcams Vanced. If you're on a computer you should already have software/extensions to block ads. If you're on iPhone well shit idk, maybe jailbreak has some options? But when it comes to in video ads by the content creator, it's really not difficult to manually skip them if you care that much. But to be honest, is it really so bad for quality content creators to have ads so they can monetize the hard work they put into their videos and upload to the internet for everyone to watch for free?
Or a lock better than the one on the bike next to yours. Same principle as when chased by a bear: you don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than your former friends...
Chains are also good for self-defense when riding. I had a friend in high school who we poked fun at for carrying his chain and lock on his shoulder when he rode. He was such a nerd. Then he very successfully fended off a very determined dog attack with that sucker one day when he was riding - and never stopped. WHACK! We stopped poking fun at him, and that dog never even barked at him again.
@@mikehayden7691 He didn't...The dog in this story clearly was aggressive. If a dog is too aggressive and gets reported multiple times (or even just once, but having caused serious injury), it will be put to sleep anyway. So if you kill an aggressive dog in self-defense you're just really speeding up the process. Not many people have enough brain cells screwed as to clobber dogs that don't really do anything to them. And those that do, would have finished the job one way or another even without a heavy chain. Humans kicks can kill just about any dog out there if you're skilled enough or use them enough.
After one bike being stolen now I have similar Kryptonite chain plus my best way to avoid having my bike stolen, is to always lock it in a cage in my work and in a basement of my home ;)
Its always better to assume the worst, in order to guarantee a good outcome out of the current situation. -Me 2021 and also probably everyone else with a brain lmao
There's a Whole Foods grocery store here in town that caterers to a college crowd, hence, many bicycle users. They have these robust cemented into the ground bike racks and a flat concrete shelf that runs the length of the rack. Up on this shelf are dozens of assorted bike locks of all brands and types that have been cut or broken. They sit as a sad reminder that few locks can keep your bike from being stolen.
@@randmayfield5695 Yeah, I was in the same boat as you. I used to think locks were basically invincible to attacks, until finding reviews about cutting locks on Google and CZcams. It's obviously better to have a lock than to not have a lock though
I guess you haven't watched the joint videos LPL does with BonianBill with the suppressed weapons etc... Personally I try avoiding business dealings with Russians, never know where a connection with the Mafia is.
This is the lock that got me into watching your videos. I bought 1 a couple of years ago as it had the best reviews and later stumbled on this video and I was shocked that this was a hard to pick lock-just some seconds to pick it?!? Then watched the rest of your videos and decided to buy a second one, as there wasn't anything better. So since then I use them to lock my bikes at home for extra security, or whenever I travel with the campervan. I later advised my brother to get another couple of those to lock his caravan's wheel to the chassis, for steal protection, so now we have a bunch of those :D Hopefully, it is way easier to lockpick them on video than in reality, because we've put a lot of thrust in those.
During the summer in Toronto, I came across a chain & lock remarkably similar to this - might have been a slightly less weighty chain, but close. It was tossed on to the ground next to a bike rack where clearly a bike had been stolen, I looked at the lock & it had been cut through on the portion on the exposed metal that inserts into the lock - there was enough space for one of those rotary saws to fit between. LPL here did not address that weakness at all, and that same space was clear in this video where the chain fits into the lock. I did see Kryptonite have a much better -double - insert system, but like this one, it surely weighs 40% of the weight of the bike it secures & costs as much as a an armed guard might cost for 24 hrs.
I once saw a white van pull up on the street when i was sitting in a small café in Poland, they picked up a full rack of bicycles shoved it in the van and drove off.. it was incredible
Pozdrowienia z Polski ;) Cheers from Poland ;) PS: Are you sure those were not town bikes that you can rent taken for the maintenance? We have plenty of them and it happens that white van is taking them for it.
I dont lock my short daily commute bike, its a cheapo one I put together out of multiple free bikes so it blends in, and I always park between two well secured bikes but without a lock! Never let me down but if I took out my real bike, this technique would probably not work so well once someone noticed a custom wheelset or the anodized bolts... lolol
Didn't work for me. Had the most beat up bike of the whole school, the brakes were the only thing that still worked properly. Used a fairly beefy lock (at least much better than all the othe bikes around) and tied it to a post. Four hours later it was gone, while all the 1k+ bikes around with the tiny locks were still here. It had a good ending tough. That bike once was a pretty expensive one (around 2k plus modifications) when it was new and my dad bought it like 20 years ago second hand, but with the orignal receipt. He also found some of the receipts for modifications, new brakes, fork, handle etc. We sent them to my insurance and tada! I got almost the full original price out of it, from which I bought a new one. So that theif actually did me a real solid.
I have one of these. They do have false gates, and I would describe it as 'fussy' as in its sometimes very fiddly to get the key to work as the discs are thinner than some locks and are very well machined and, in the real world, move around when you're trying to manipulate the key in to the lock. In the UK, this lock cost me £35 and I use it to lock a bike that cost me £50 from eBay. What I also like about this locks design is that there is just enough space between the link that goes in the lock and the next link on the chain to fit another chain link over, so I use a lighter thru- hardened chain with loop-thru links to secure the front wheel. The first line of defense is having a bike that isn't going to get the thief much money in a pawn shop. Second line of defense is having a lock that is enough that it can't be cut through with 18" bolt croppers (widely used by opportunist thieves). Next line of defense is locking it near another bike that isn't secured very well or is more desirable to steal. Finally, I take a two pronged approach to where I'm locking it ...I either lock it somewhere that is in full view of a busy shop window, or I lock it somewhere that it's easy to walk past and not notice it's there.
I was under the impression that one should use both a U-lock and chain lock to secure a bike. From what I understand, they use different tools to deal with each (bolt cutter for chain and compact jack for U-bolt) and most thieves would have one or the other, but not both.
but the weight is what prevents that ultimate security. It may be good if you leave your bike at office location because you can consider leaving the chain overnight. You would rather consider O-lock for rear wheel and a U-lock for front wheel + bike frame.
@@hislatestflame7861 Even though it's listed as sold out, they do include a price tag in the link you included... 1 MILLION DOLLARS... That's defense number three...
It's not worth it if there's plenty of bikes lying around the place that are much easier to steal. Time is of the essence. Like, if you park your car at the wrong spot or have not paid for the parking time, police will open your car in literally a second.
Your name on the bike would be the scariest lock. If they steal your lock or bike, you could unlock their front door, their safe, and all their secrets.
LPL, I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. Very straightforward and calm, they appeal to me. They remind me of Jago Hazzard, he publishes videos about the London Underground. Both of you are informative and matter of fact. Thank you.
You joke but one time I was in some town in Scotland, Edinburg or something, and there was this "horror bus ride" where they supposedly tour the city in a bus and scare you along the way, somehow. At the top of its brochure it had a quote by Johnny Depp - "It's alright.". I kid you not.
@@MadaFakaTOO What you're not understanding is that in Britain, 'It's alright', is the highest compliment allowed in the country. Anything statement more positive than that (such as, 'It was amazing') would only be said sarcastically and really means, 'It is absolute rubbish'. Apologies, but we Brits are very confusing when we speak.
I love how you're not showing the key on camera so people on the internet don't track you down, fly to where you live all to specifically steal your cheap bike.
I used a kryptonite evolution new york lock, which unfortunately had a U lock for a massive chain, and it took the thieves about 5 seconds to cut through it with an angle grinder. Got to watch it on the security camera outside my building.
One 6ft example of this lock plus a 35lbs cast iron kettle bell equals 2yrs of not having my bike stolen from the back of my truck. 100% effective over a period when I would previously have expected the bike and many other items secured in this way to have been stolen multiple times. UPGRADE: Thread a spliced length of dyneema back and forth through the chain, and, if you can get the cover moved around enough, rub the dyneema with high grit sandpaper to fray it then dab rubber cement lightly along the frayed portions. It'll jam up anything that would cut the lengths and the rubber cement will gum up most blades that could quickly cut the dyneema.
Dammit. I was planning on replicating the key after seeing it, finding out where LPL lives, following him when he uses his cheap bike, using my replica key, and taking the $70 bike and the $70 lock, and then posting a video. But he obscured the key from the camera! Now instead I have to find Bosnian Bill, have him help me make a similar lock picking device, learn how to use it, find and follow LPL, and pick his bike lock.
Scary thing is, someone might well think that would be cool. LPL is a sort of celeb to some rather peculiar folks after all. I think his paranoia is pretty reasonable.
Actually i am pretty sure that LPL made the pick easily available and cheap for those that want to get into it. Dont know if its sold out but a previous LPL video showed it off.
You can actually buy those pics online. The first run apparently was sold out, but the link I saw still included pricing, which means you can simply purchase the tool for a mere 1 million US dollars...
"Gentelman, we have made one of the best locks in the world. Hundrets of high ranking engineering and security tests companys gave us their highes ranking for their lock. Some even introduced new security classes just for the lock. Now we have to market it in a perfect way. Which lable should be our front runner in our marketing campaigne" Joe comes in slamming the door: "LPL said it is probably good enough" "IT IS DECIDED THEN"
This is the closest yet to an actual LPL recommendation….So I bought the exact same model to secure my e-bike 😁. As he says…the skill and tools needed are not going to be carried by your average opportunist kid - hanging around outside the local convenience store. An angle grinder will defeat it in seconds and a heavy duty bolt cutter might, but these attacks are clumsy, noticeable and need forethought. It IS a hefty 3Kg and stowing it might be a problem…I’m going for clips along the frame….wrapping this big chain around the seat post is going to be bulky and interfere with the under-saddle tail light. Probably makes a good self defence deterrent if someone suspiciously comes upto you whilst parking up! Thanks LPL👍
I believe in an older video he said the doors on his house have certain pins or something so they are unpickable, if you attemt to pick it it will permanently lock itself and will have to be drolled out because the pins fall into a groove they can't get out of
@@Xx0ME0xX Sounds a little too vague in my opinion. Sorry, but I think that you might made that up. Sure there is such technology and I am sure that LPL knows, good locks but he would never tell us where to find his door or what lock is there. The fact that there are many genes with lock picking experience in his community, means he cannot do that.
When I first saw the lock Me: It looks beefy and heavy, that must be a tough one!! LockPickingLawyer: "probably good enough" Me: yeah probably good enough
If he says it’s probably good enough, I say it is outstanding in every way, and I would trust it with a $2000 bike. What I would do above that price, I can’t say.
MAYO NEIGHS, this is a edited version of your comment. When I first saw the lock Me: It looks beefy and heavy, that must be a tough one!! LockPickingLawyer: "probably good enough" Me: ok, definitly good enough
I think the best marketing ever done for this lock was LPL saying "this lock is good enough". Imagine the amount of people who gonna buy this lock just because of this review
That's literally why I bought it on amazon. If i need to shop for groceries i'll put the lock in my backpack, buy groceries, put those in the backpack and then wrap the lock around the frame
"and here's how to open my bike lock, but good luck with that, me and Bosnian Bill had to custom build a device in order to pick this thing which is almost definitely something that an average bike thief wouldn't have."
Hi I’m in the market for a bike locker and I found your videos. I can’t understand if what you do in few seconds is something that an average thief can do or if something that only a very skilled one can do. If you would spend more money does any of the commercial locker have a more “resistant” key lock that would take much more time to be open? Can you suggest any? Thanks
@@al404 Most bike thieves wouldn't be able to do this. Generally, regardless of the lock, most thieves will just use bolt cutters or an angle grinder. Since those two tools will quickly bypass 90% of locks with zero practice or skill, there is no reason for your average thief to learn to pick locks.
To pick it, yea, most bike thieves won't be able to. What, exactly, are you planning to lock it to, though, that it wouldn't be significantly easier to just attack that instead of the lock?
I watch most every episode. I have no bike, car, truck, I live in a gated apartment block with security, I am so old I probably could not pick up this lock, or many that are shown. LPL tells a good story, non fiction, that is why I watch.
I had this chain for my bike when I was younger, chained it through the lower frame and where getting to the lock was difficult, I had a guy try stealing it apparently since a passerby told me "I want to let you know someone tried stealing that bike and we stopped him" I thanked them as it was my only form of transport as a kid for work. In the UK theres a company that makes to order their chains (really thick and heavy) and locks for motorcycles, I happily can say It stood up to thefts using grinding tools and I chained it through parts of the bike that they can not remove without damaging it as these thefts tend to ride what they steal. It gave me plenty of time to call the police and then go outside to challenge them. I also had several types of locks on the bike which would take extra time off them but not by much in comparison. They changed tactics to try chase as you ride so I ended up selling it, they still didnt get to steal it off of me. VICTORY! Any lock can be picked and its buying time and that is what my lock and chain did. You are buying time, not a unbreakable lock.
Our daughter wanted to take the bike we got her in her teens to college - it is a Trek but not a super expensive bike, was about $400 when we bought it but with inflation, it would probably be a decent amount more to replace and because it has a nice paint job, I knew it would attract thieves so I bought this lock. the bike took a good amount of abuse being locked up outside her dorm for the year, but when we moved her out of the dorm the other day I realized that since she last rode it (not often) someone surely tried to steal it or at least vandalize it - the lock was through the frame and both wheels and at least one spoke is broken. $100 lock seems like overkill, but I think it was worth it in college in the 90's I walked out of a study session some time between midnight & 2 am & walked up on two guys standing by my bike shoving bolt cutters back under their jacket making fake casual conversation - I'm certain had they been given 5 more minutes they would have had a very nice (I think $700 back then) bike
No that doesn't work I had a ex rental Shogun Trailblazer 3 when I was in high school locked it up at the train station with a big chain perhaps 12 mil chain and a big Lockwood padlock and on top of that I had a master combination lock that chained the front wheel to the neck of the bike and I came back 9 hours later and somebody had actually cut the fence with a grinder or something and took the bike like legitimately it was a $5 bike that I bought at the rubbish tip
Just saw this video.... when I moved to NYC I had some time on my hands before my Engineering job started.... Inspired by the movie Quicksilver (lawyer turned bike messenger) I went and got a job as a bike messenger.... the hiring boss took one look at my $2000 bike and said are you kidding me... that bike won't last 2 seconds in NYC... he had me tape up the whole frame with black tape and made me buy a Krptonite lock and chain... the lock and chain weighed more than the bike... lol.... best job I ever had.... to bad the pay wasn't enough to support me in NYC the way I wanted to live.... 😃
In Amsterdam, capital of The Netherlands, people living on the first floor would carry their bike all the way up to their apartment if they had to get something. Because leaving it on the ground floor for a few minutes would probably result in it getting stolen.
That someone of your deep knowledge of lock security owns this particular model is about as strong an endorsement as one could imagine. Also great to hear that you're a fellow cyclist. Thank you for putting this up.
Yup, I went out and bought it - despite it probably being the heaviest lock I've ever owned. It is to protect either of my daily rides (depending on the day): A Bullitt cargo bike or my Ti Omnium cargo bike. I thought I'd need especially for the Omnium.
U locks can also be easily broken with a farm jack or one of those small car jacks that are basically like a farm jack. The chain makes the carjack version much harder. -Remember, your bike lock is only as strong as what you have it locked too.
@@fernandotrevinocastro1018 Honestly, I wish the government would hire him for a day or two to pick all their locks. And, on top of that, makes multiple videos that don't disclose the location.
ive seen people commenting to caution youtubers to not show their keys on camera where the video had nothing to do with lockpicking. its generally good practice to avoid showing keys in public photos. i try to avoid doing so, or blurring the keys if it ends up in the photo. and i'm a nobody! but perhaps i am a bit paranoid. either case better safe than sorry!
Oh come on, it's totally ridiculous. Someone is going to go through the trouble of studying a picture of the key, recreating the key, finding the stranger on the internet, following him while he's out for a bike ride, waiting for him to lock his bike, and then stealing the bike? That's pure insanity and 100x more costly than just buying your own bike.
@@jblen I always thought it doesn't matter if someone gets a picture of your key. Than I saw someone 3D-print a working key from only a picture as reference. It was his first time trying it and he got it on his secound attemped in under half an hour including 3D-printing. The key was propably only for a single use because of the low print quality and the cheap material used but that also means everyone could replicate this feat.That was at least a year ago.
I litterally bought this lock because of you. It is great, but it is also quite heavy, this is why I tend to use it less. Which is sorta defeating the purpose. Still, I do love it. It is a very good lock.
Damn. As as bike thief my livelihood depends on bike owners starting their own CZcams channels, showing their bike lock key on that channel,researching who that person is, following them for an opportunity to use the copy of the key I made. You win this round lock picking lawyer!
Not just researching who that person is, but some how figuring out any identifying information on LPL lol The dude goes hard on internet security, keeping his real life so seperate from this online life. I still find it so amazingly impressive that there exists at least *one* person untraceable from their online presense. No one knows his name, where he is, his face, which is exactly how he likes to keep it.
Thank you what you were saying about the lock made me think of a Black Crowes song chain links are hard to hold use a vice grip because chain links are hard to handle now nevermind vise grips are also good for removing broken screws
I got a bike stolen this december so I decided to up my game security wise and I got this exact same lock for my nicer new bike after watching one of your previous video. During first week there was already one notch on a link showing that thieves had tried to cut it without success, then today I got a second notch after leaving my bike 20 min in front of a shop. The thieves did very little damage to the link, then they punctured the back wheel probably out of spite! Anyway thanks for your videos, by understanding how thieves bypass the locks I can counteract it better. If it was not for your videos this bike would probably be gone again!
It's amazing how spiteful bike thieves can be, it's like "How dare you buy a lock too strong for them to cut through!" I once saw a bike that the thieves, after they failed to get through the hardened steel of the lock, took their bolt cutters to the poor guy's aluminium chain-stay. Basically making the bike a write-off. The worst bit was the insurance company said as the bike wasn't stolen they wouldn't pay out... They were the real thieves that time.
"I can pick it" pulls out a self-designed tool I've never heard of that does the specific thing that will pick the lock. Yeah man, I don't think any bike thief is going to have one of whatever that thing was in their back pocket
@@samgendler Yeah and a thief is not buying it, the fact hes so good at picking locks makes him and his most frequent viewers very paranoid. The average person who will steal a cheap bike like hes describing will just see a lock and move onto the next one until they find one locked in a stupid place or no lock at all. No one with any sort of expertise is going to risk getting caught for just some bottom of the range bike
And it still gave him a little hassle. If someone could get their hands on that tool they sure as hell aren't gonna know how to use it and if by some grace they do it'll take then a good minute to do so.
I know you will never see this but thanks to you and your videos I will finally be able to sleep at night. I recently moved across the country to a lesser quality of area. I have a motorcycle that I care more about than all of my other possessions combined. It is parked right outside my window, I have a dog, guns, and a fenced in yard. But still couldn’t sleep until tonight after receiving my new Kryptonite New York Fahgettaboudit 1410 with a 3.25’ 14mm chain. Thank you
Just bought one of these. It's hefty, but not as ridiculous as I feared. The weight shouldn't make much difference on my low-end e-bike.Thanks for the reccomendation.
In the end it's about making your bike harder to steal than the one parked next to it. With most people using cheezy cables it's not that hard. However, if you have a $5000 mtb vs the next over $200 Wallyworld bike, you still need that better lock setup because they're more motivated to steal yours.
And yet the amount that a "good" lock will protect on a $5,000 mountain bike is pretty small. Assuming you go with the traditional "lock the wheels and frame" approach, a thief can just unscrew a few bolts to walk away all the front end except the wheel -- on a $5,000 mountain bike that could easily be $1,000-2,000 in parts. A thief who wants to be really inconspicuous will just unbolt the derailleur, undo the master link on the chain, snip the cable, and walk off with a $100-300 derailleur in their pocket.
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If a lock costs more than the bike you are not locking the bike
You are biking the lock
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@@theregalproletariat you got more likes tho😂😂
and if you're in Soviet Russia, bike locks you
lock bikes you
“Used by Lockpicking Lawer” is the highest compliment a lock could get.
Honestly, it doesn't look like a good choice of a lock for him. A lock like that, means that even if the bike look like crap, it will attract attention to it. Even if they fail to pick it, they can damage the lock in some way and render it unusable. Then he's out the price of the bike anyway.
Better to have a cheap bike, that look even cheaper, and use a ghetto lock on it. Enough to deter someone from just grabbing it and bike away, but not so flashy as to look high end. If someone wants to steal your bike, they will. It doesn't matter what kind of lock you have. Insurance, low cost of replacing the bike, and deterrence are the best defence against bike thieves. Not good locks.
@@Taeerom the effort for this particular lock for the value of the bike makes it entirely pointless to try steal it. That's what the deterrent is and I believe it would be very effective. Why tangle with this lock for a shoddy bike when that other shoddy bike further down the road has a ghetto lock I can smash off much easier.
@@Taeerom I think you misunderstood him. A better bike lock would cost as much as the bike he's using the lock on, this lock is much cheaper than that.
@@Taeerom well if you have a 7,000$ bike you should have a lock that is more than a deterrent he doesn't have a bike that is that much but some people do
Or "Probably good enough"
As a professional polish dude i have to say every bike is only as secure as the lamp post it it atached to
Haha truth
Sometimes you see very nice locks... but the way they secure them is stupid; as they can just be removed by unscrewing part of the bike and screwing it back.
Well, Battery Powered Angle Grinder doesn't care
@BlackSwordsman o..okey?
The joke
@BlackSwordsman
The least believable part of this video is that LPL carries a key. Everyone knows he just glares disapprovingly at locks till they open out of shame.
Lmao
LPL: Really?
Lock: opens apologetically.
Except for a Bowley lock. No one, including LPL has ever picked one.
@@my3dviewsyet.
Bruh it's been 5 years since the original LPL video on Bowley locks, if LPL can't do it given half a decade, then who will? How long will they take? It's not like Bowley locks have gotten easier to pick in 5 years.
UPDATE: Lock got stolen, but they left the bike.
lol
😂
Haha yeah, they used the angle grinder on the bike frame instead to cut the bike away from the lock
You might be surprised but that actually happened to me😅
I was at school and parked my as usual using a fairly standard lock.
Came back and the lock was gone. Bike still at the exact same place.
Till this day I wonder: WHY WOULD YOU PICK A BIKE LOCK AND THEN LEAVE THE BIKE
AlterSchwede WieGeil maybe it was the lock picking lawyer, wanting to show you that you needed a better lock lol
LockPickingLawyer: "probably good enough"
Me: must be a damn good lock.
LockPickingLawyer: * picks lock in 50 seconds *
Me: I'll never be safe
xoxosu If the LockPickingLawyer needs 50 seconds to pick the lock, you will probably be safe.
Pretty much.
It's not picking you're really in danger from. Aside from maybe a bypass or easy rake. I't if they can show up with a pair of bolt cutters and disappear with it in 10 seconds.
@@TheAkashicTraveller Not with a 10mm heat treated chain.
If his bike ever gets stolen it’d make a good title. “Testing my bike thief’s front door lock”
If his picks won't open the lock, his .50 cal rifle certainly will (ask Squire)!
I imagine him doing some real psycho terror where he does nothing apart from repeatedly opening the lock of the door and leaving the door open when the thief is not at home. :D
You should see his april fools video about entering his ex-gf's back door.
There's been enough times that he's received GPS trackers in packages sent to him (in a vain attempt to track where he lives). Im sure at some point he has replaced the SIM card in one and dropped it down the seat post tube of his bike. easy enough to do.
"This is the lock picking lawyer and today, I will be picking this lock with a glock."
Can confirm this is a very robust lock I use it on my personal E-Bike and I can't tell you how many times I've gotten back from class to find a scratch on the lock and a shattered disc from a angle grinder on the ground. One time I came back to the bike with a note on it saying the campus security caught the person that was stealing everyone's bikes
College campus are super high risk areas to leave a bike (thieves can be confident that the owners are going to take a while to come back). If on top of that you're leaving a probably quite expensive E-Bike, the risk increases.
I use this lock too and your comment makes me trust it even more lol
do people ever steal just one of the wheels, the handlebar, or the seat? how would you protect these? I thought a lock only protects the frame and maybe one wheel.
@@timhan8667 Yes, I use to lock one wheel and frame only and when I woke up one morning my bike was missing a wheel. Not sure how to avoid this except to get a longer lock or combine two.
@@icedclips725 taking the wheel off and including in the lock is what I do. I’ve seen others have a secondary lock to go through the unlocked wheel
I'll never understand the angle grinder. Definitely suspiscious during the day, and way too much noise for the night, all in the hopes to get...a bicycle? In most cases, a guy probably spent more on the grinder and wheels than what the bicycle is worth.
"I use this lock, here's how to pick it."
But he needed a custom tool.
Iam Sam Lol, you can buy that tool.
@@iamsam8446 Still though, lol.
A man of great confidence
@@plutoplays5625 buying tools doesnt help much if you dont have the skills and knowledge to use them. would need a lot of dexterity and experience to use that thing. most would break the pick.
"probably good enough" - I'm now convinced LPL's town is made up entirely by angle grinder-wielding bike thieves
He said in a separate video that he lives in the DC area, so yes.
*battery powered angle grinders
@@killfacebalor2474 His PO box is in Maryland though. So at least he isn't deep in that awful city, just close.
I laughed so hard at your comment
@@adumbyelloh2563 Bethesda is pretty close to DC, but then again, up there it just all blends together between the different towns really. Just one giant concrete jungle
This is typical in Holland as well, having a lock that more expensive than the bike. The running joke is that you get back to your bike and go "WTF! They stole my lock!!"
LOL WTF
thanks for the laugh
that’s bizarre
why dont you just take the bike to flee then
@@zero.Identity because it's just a joke
@@Spartan0430 no really, sherlock. a bad one though if the first thing my brain thinks about is to take the bike anyways. doesnt make me laugh if that happens
From a Dutch native: the best defense against people stealing your bike, is making sure it looks like it got yoinked from an Amsterdam canal yesterday.
I live in 🇺🇸 I ride my bikes 4 bikes I own. I ride almost every day
@@eddievenuto1862who asked?
thief: *tries to steal his bike*
LPL: “you’re doing it wrong here let me show you how its done”
Trains the thief to not make the same mistakes in the future.
Only after the retainer has been paid.
It's the Uncle Iroh approach. "If you're going to rob me at least do it right."
@@euanrae6798 tla is the goat
Euan Rae the best
Kryptonite: "there was a sudden, unexplained uptick in sales of one specific lock. Very wierd."
@stephen john gray ok bike thief boomer
@stephen john gray lol that's 40 years ago, I'm certain they have improved since then
I just bought one of these lol
Jakin Yang any good?
@stephen john gray this is coming from a master lock employee, probably
So, back when I was a drug addict and stealing bikes, what I would do is stick a screw driver through the links, and twist it up while pulling, once enough of the links twist up you can usually cut it pretty steady.
But most of the time people use light chain and a pair of bolt cutters will work.
Love your vids dude!
*Note* I left that crappy life behind 7 years ago, I just watch your vids cause they are interesting
Bro, no joke, welcome back to the land of the living.
@@just-dl thanks man! I was a total zombie back then.
I work for a property management company and it's always I little funny to me when I tell my boss great ways to secure things he never would have thought about. He knows my past and also knows he can trust me. It always feels nice when he actually takes my advice
@@TheBenBen253 I took a few detours off the straight and narrow in my younger days. I know how hard it can be to break away. I benefited from some loving cops and stern-looking friends who gently kicked my ass from town to town until I got put back together. 5/8/98 was the day it all crashed on me. I call 1/13/99 the day I got my mind back. Don't look back. Cool that you've got a boss that listens. And, I think it's great you can put the past to good use. I try to keep kids from going off the rails. That's my way to pay it back/forward.
@@just-dl yeah dude. I try to give back by visiting the places I used to sleep (under the bridge and other places where the homeless congregate) I bring food and I bring info on how to get on the methadone/Suboxone clinics. I explain that they can get you a bus pass so you can get to the clinic and around town for other resources. And since so many know me or can vouch that I used to be in the same position, people listen and I've gotten 2 people to go in and get on the program.
@@TheBenBen253 awesome. use your street creds while you can. at some point, your days on the hard won't be remembered by the guys out there. hopefully, the ones you pulled back to safety will be going out...because they'll be remembered. They'll save one more. Who will save one more. That's all i want. To save one more.
Not counting rotating, it took him 45 seconds to pick the lock, which is about the longest it ever takes him, that makes the lock damn good.
if anyone tries to steal LPL bike. I hope they decide to move to another house or else they might hear "A click on two, three is loose and there we go" outside their home.
He wouldn’t need to even enter, he can just unlock all your doors and shim all your windows open just for intimidation
And as seen in the end of video 892 he's stronger than an iron man.
The thief would lock himself in his room out of fear just to remember that the intruder is LPL while under his blanked.🙂
"A click on Two, Three is loose, Open Door, Mag in, Safeties off, let's get to work."
4 clicks, C-O-L-T. Now smile for the flash!
Episode 2067 and this is how you deal with a bike once and for all
Recommends a lock. No affilaite links. This guy is legit
disciprine actually i was looking for a amazon link, hehehe
@@Wesley_H were you naturally born dumb or did you have to work at it?
@@Wesley_H RTFM
@@Wesley_H are you on Android? If so use CZcams Vanced. If you're on a computer you should already have software/extensions to block ads. If you're on iPhone well shit idk, maybe jailbreak has some options? But when it comes to in video ads by the content creator, it's really not difficult to manually skip them if you care that much. But to be honest, is it really so bad for quality content creators to have ads so they can monetize the hard work they put into their videos and upload to the internet for everyone to watch for free?
@@Wesley_H aren't we all begging, creators begging for revenue, viewers begging for advice/entertainment
LPL: Careful not to show the key on camera so it can't be reproduced
Also LPL: Here's exactly how you can pick this lock
Have you ever tried? It looks easy but seriously to develop the feel for it like he has is very difficult.
having the key is a lot easier than picking it
You don't need an unbreakable lock to protect your stuff. You just need a lock good enough, so that it makes stealing more trouble than it's worth.
Or a lock better than the one on the bike next to yours. Same principle as when chased by a bear: you don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than your former friends...
The LPL recommending a lock should be considered market manipulation
rumors said Kryptonite shares has been bullish ever since this video released.
Ever heard of consumer advice
im pretty sure it bumped the sales for that brand for a moment
you guys just invented advertisement/marketing !
Glad he puts food on his table by himself.
"And this"
*[drops gun on the table]*
"is defense number 3."
Anon Ymous LOL
Not gonna lie, I've seen the guns he has access to, and his most formidable bolts are in semi-auto rifles, and that's not something to take lightly!
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@@FearOfTheTrooper what the hell does Antifa have to do with this?
“Probably good enough” from the Lock Picking Lawyer …. that’s high praise!
Chains are also good for self-defense when riding. I had a friend in high school who we poked fun at for carrying his chain and lock on his shoulder when he rode. He was such a nerd. Then he very successfully fended off a very determined dog attack with that sucker one day when he was riding - and never stopped. WHACK! We stopped poking fun at him, and that dog never even barked at him again.
You smack a dog with that chain and the dog won't be able to bark again. Or breathe.
@@mikehayden7691 good
@@ShaddySoldier I'd stipulate good in self defense but let's not pretend we're just clubbing the neighbors dog, here.
@@mikehayden7691 He didn't...The dog in this story clearly was aggressive. If a dog is too aggressive and gets reported multiple times (or even just once, but having caused serious injury), it will be put to sleep anyway. So if you kill an aggressive dog in self-defense you're just really speeding up the process.
Not many people have enough brain cells screwed as to clobber dogs that don't really do anything to them. And those that do, would have finished the job one way or another even without a heavy chain. Humans kicks can kill just about any dog out there if you're skilled enough or use them enough.
@@kikixchannel I actually read your comment... Wow 199% agree. Please tell me yóure single
that moment when you're just chilling then you hear a sound coming from the back door "binding on 6 got it quick at 7"
lmao
Lol
Khalooli Su that is F-n Funny man.
I CANT STOP LAUGHING. Thank you so much for this, random internet stranger.
@@dinosaurman4000 you're welcome i wish you all the happiness 😂😂
The best way to avoid having your bike stolen:
Put it next to a better bike that has a worse lock!
.... soo park my unlocked bike next to a Corvette that just "happens" to have its window broken?
After one bike being stolen now I have similar Kryptonite chain plus my best way to avoid having my bike stolen, is to always lock it in a cage in my work and in a basement of my home ;)
@@JS-rv3et nonono. You place the bike under the corvette, obviously.
@@luckierloser But then it gets run over!
@@panek6443 but it won't be stolen, sooooo
"And I can certainly pick it...but it's good enough." - safest lock I'll ever need
I love how this man is one of the best lock picks in the world and just assumes that everyone will try to pick his locks 💀
Its always better to assume the worst, in order to guarantee a good outcome out of the current situation.
-Me 2021 and also probably everyone else with a brain lmao
At that point it's the bike protecting the lock from thieves.
lmao.. THAT IS FUNNY!!
Oh, you just never been to Soviet Яussia, there The bike steals thieves and protects YOU.
@@enosunim i thought in Soviet Russia Bike protects Thieves and steals YOU!!
@@enosunim what is a yaussia
@@theboss5929 whossia? whatssia?
“probably good enough”
basically that means this is the best lock in existence
Mryeboi statistically the best likelihood that the bike won’t get stolen using this lock.
Yeah I've seen this guy shoot a locked gun.
@jon snow Video says the two cost basically the same amount.
There's a Whole Foods grocery store here in town that caterers to a college crowd, hence, many bicycle users. They have these robust cemented into the ground bike racks and a flat concrete shelf that runs the length of the rack. Up on this shelf are dozens of assorted bike locks of all brands and types that have been cut or broken. They sit as a sad reminder that few locks can keep your bike from being stolen.
Any lock can be stolen if the person really wants to steal it, no matter what.
@@kokopellione I'd have to agree with you in that. Before the internet I was blissfully nieve about lock security. Not anymore.
@@randmayfield5695 Yeah, I was in the same boat as you. I used to think locks were basically invincible to attacks, until finding reviews about cutting locks on Google and CZcams. It's obviously better to have a lock than to not have a lock though
Always appreciate the all too rare occasions when you highlight products that are of good quality.
"I won't show you the lock's key so you can't copy it and steal my bike. Also, this is how you can pick it open"
"Step number 1: befriend Bosnian Bill"
...but first you need *Lockpicking 100*
@@xavier6130 exactly lol most ppl couldn't watch this n go do it. Takes practice
With the special tool he made
@@xavier6130 this man has lockpicking 200
"Probably good enough" [has to use complicated custom built picking device still takes almost a minute]
To be fair he probably used a regular pick before but he just wanted to be funny and use something custom made
in laboratory conditions
And while knowing his own key bitting.
Or hes about to sell that lil doodad and THIS was the ad
Picking a lock takes time unless you speedrun ad a hobby lol
"Heres my lock :)"
*proceeds to pick his own lock*
I believe LPL doesn't actually use his key for the bike lock and usually just picks it
LPL: Doesn't show us the key
Also LPL: Shows us how to pick it.
Anybody who can figure out the key cuts from the picking video is able to pick that lock without knowledge of the correct cuts.
This dude is so bad ass. *picks lock in seconds* “picking this is well beyond the skill of an average thief”
picks in seconds with special custom made tool
It makes sense. Lawyers are exceptional thieves.
@@romxxii but the ones I have seen dont pick locks
In other words LPL is not an average theif... 😁
@@alex2005z They pick your money straight away, not secretly at 3am.
Rule #1: don’t steal anything from someone who knows a guy named “Bosnian Bill”
Is that guy better than LPL in picking?
czcams.com/video/EJl2rnADgBo/video.html
^BosnianBill^
Why does the nationality matter?
I guess you haven't watched the joint videos LPL does with BonianBill with the suppressed weapons etc...
Personally I try avoiding business dealings with Russians, never know where a connection with the Mafia is.
This is the lock that got me into watching your videos. I bought 1 a couple of years ago as it had the best reviews and later stumbled on this video and I was shocked that this was a hard to pick lock-just some seconds to pick it?!? Then watched the rest of your videos and decided to buy a second one, as there wasn't anything better. So since then I use them to lock my bikes at home for extra security, or whenever I travel with the campervan. I later advised my brother to get another couple of those to lock his caravan's wheel to the chassis, for steal protection, so now we have a bunch of those :D Hopefully, it is way easier to lockpick them on video than in reality, because we've put a lot of thrust in those.
During the summer in Toronto, I came across a chain & lock remarkably similar to this - might have been a slightly less weighty chain, but close. It was tossed on to the ground next to a bike rack where clearly a bike had been stolen, I looked at the lock & it had been cut through on the portion on the exposed metal that inserts into the lock - there was enough space for one of those rotary saws to fit between. LPL here did not address that weakness at all, and that same space was clear in this video where the chain fits into the lock. I did see Kryptonite have a much better -double - insert system, but like this one, it surely weighs 40% of the weight of the bike it secures & costs as much as a an armed guard might cost for 24 hrs.
I once saw a white van pull up on the street when i was sitting in a small café in Poland, they picked up a full rack of bicycles shoved it in the van and drove off.. it was incredible
Stealing both the bikes and the locks
now that’s efficiency
@@ZaHandle and free rack
Pozdrowienia z Polski ;)
Cheers from Poland ;)
PS: Are you sure those were not town bikes that you can rent taken for the maintenance? We have plenty of them and it happens that white van is taking them for it.
But, did they leave the locks?
This is why you should always chain your bike around a pole... god knows there's plenty of those in that country as well.
You forgot the unwritten rule 0 of locking up your bike - to lock it up right next to a less well secured bike :P
and a better looking one
@@lukazz434 My golden rule with my motorcycle. If they're ready to steal something, they might as well take the most expensive one.
@@pkedkoen I never thought of that.
I dont lock my short daily commute bike, its a cheapo one I put together out of multiple free bikes so it blends in, and I always park between two well secured bikes but without a lock!
Never let me down but if I took out my real bike, this technique would probably not work so well once someone noticed a custom wheelset or the anodized bolts... lolol
Didn't work for me. Had the most beat up bike of the whole school, the brakes were the only thing that still worked properly. Used a fairly beefy lock (at least much better than all the othe bikes around) and tied it to a post. Four hours later it was gone, while all the 1k+ bikes around with the tiny locks were still here. It had a good ending tough. That bike once was a pretty expensive one (around 2k plus modifications) when it was new and my dad bought it like 20 years ago second hand, but with the orignal receipt. He also found some of the receipts for modifications, new brakes, fork, handle etc. We sent them to my insurance and tada! I got almost the full original price out of it, from which I bought a new one.
So that theif actually did me a real solid.
I have one of these. They do have false gates, and I would describe it as 'fussy' as in its sometimes very fiddly to get the key to work as the discs are thinner than some locks and are very well machined and, in the real world, move around when you're trying to manipulate the key in to the lock. In the UK, this lock cost me £35 and I use it to lock a bike that cost me £50 from eBay. What I also like about this locks design is that there is just enough space between the link that goes in the lock and the next link on the chain to fit another chain link over, so I use a lighter thru- hardened chain with loop-thru links to secure the front wheel. The first line of defense is having a bike that isn't going to get the thief much money in a pawn shop. Second line of defense is having a lock that is enough that it can't be cut through with 18" bolt croppers (widely used by opportunist thieves). Next line of defense is locking it near another bike that isn't secured very well or is more desirable to steal. Finally, I take a two pronged approach to where I'm locking it ...I either lock it somewhere that is in full view of a busy shop window, or I lock it somewhere that it's easy to walk past and not notice it's there.
I was under the impression that one should use both a U-lock and chain lock to secure a bike. From what I understand, they use different tools to deal with each (bolt cutter for chain and compact jack for U-bolt) and most thieves would have one or the other, but not both.
but the weight is what prevents that ultimate security. It may be good if you leave your bike at office location because you can consider leaving the chain overnight. You would rather consider O-lock for rear wheel and a U-lock for front wheel + bike frame.
That worked for me for years of cycling.
LPL: "I think this is well beyond the skills of your average bike thief."
Bike thief: "Good thing I watch LPL on CZcams."
You'd need the specialised tool, though
@@zappawench6048 One that he said he made, no less.
Let's Shoot Nor NV And one that you can now buy online although the first run has sold out www.sparrowslockpicks.ca/product_p/disc.htm
@@hislatestflame7861 Even though it's listed as sold out, they do include a price tag in the link you included... 1 MILLION DOLLARS... That's defense number three...
It's not worth it if there's plenty of bikes lying around the place that are much easier to steal.
Time is of the essence.
Like, if you park your car at the wrong spot or have not paid for the parking time, police will open your car in literally a second.
Your name on the bike would be the scariest lock. If they steal your lock or bike, you could unlock their front door, their safe, and all their secrets.
He could unlock their very heart
Then they die ;-;
HERPY DERPEDY û cinnamon
ℹ git
LOCKPICKING 100
You wake up see dis dude lock picking your brain
LPL, I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. Very straightforward and calm, they appeal to me. They remind me of Jago Hazzard, he publishes videos about the London Underground. Both of you are informative and matter of fact. Thank you.
I have this lock so appreciate seeing it tested and knowing it a 'good enough' choice
Kryptonite should use LPL's quote in their marketing.
"LockPickingLawyer says 'it's probably good enough'"
HILARIOUS but that would be a great ad!
🤣
LOL
You joke but one time I was in some town in Scotland, Edinburg or something, and there was this "horror bus ride" where they supposedly tour the city in a bus and scare you along the way, somehow. At the top of its brochure it had a quote by Johnny Depp - "It's alright.". I kid you not.
@@MadaFakaTOO What you're not understanding is that in Britain, 'It's alright', is the highest compliment allowed in the country. Anything statement more positive than that (such as, 'It was amazing') would only be said sarcastically and really means, 'It is absolute rubbish'. Apologies, but we Brits are very confusing when we speak.
I love how you're not showing the key on camera so people on the internet don't track you down, fly to where you live all to specifically steal your cheap bike.
Was looking for a comment like this
If you've missed the point of my commentary that badly I'm not sure if I can walk you through it.
Who said i meant it in a bad way?
@@shay4501 lol
@@TechnoEsoterica Learn to read dickhead
I used a kryptonite evolution new york lock, which unfortunately had a U lock for a massive chain, and it took the thieves about 5 seconds to cut through it with an angle grinder. Got to watch it on the security camera outside my building.
One 6ft example of this lock plus a 35lbs cast iron kettle bell equals 2yrs of not having my bike stolen from the back of my truck. 100% effective over a period when I would previously have expected the bike and many other items secured in this way to have been stolen multiple times.
UPGRADE: Thread a spliced length of dyneema back and forth through the chain, and, if you can get the cover moved around enough, rub the dyneema with high grit sandpaper to fray it then dab rubber cement lightly along the frayed portions. It'll jam up anything that would cut the lengths and the rubber cement will gum up most blades that could quickly cut the dyneema.
Dammit. I was planning on replicating the key after seeing it, finding out where LPL lives, following him when he uses his cheap bike, using my replica key, and taking the $70 bike and the $70 lock, and then posting a video. But he obscured the key from the camera! Now instead I have to find Bosnian Bill, have him help me make a similar lock picking device, learn how to use it, find and follow LPL, and pick his bike lock.
Scary thing is, someone might well think that would be cool. LPL is a sort of celeb to some rather peculiar folks after all.
I think his paranoia is pretty reasonable.
@@travcollier I think it was more to demonstrate good security practices than an actual fear of someone tracking him down to steal his bike.
on top of what everyone else said, and though I still don't think it's realistic someone would, im sure the bike and lock are both worth a few hundred
Actually i am pretty sure that LPL made the pick easily available and cheap for those that want to get into it. Dont know if its sold out but a previous LPL video showed it off.
You can actually buy those pics online. The first run apparently was sold out, but the link I saw still included pricing, which means you can simply purchase the tool for a mere 1 million US dollars...
"Gentelman, we have made one of the best locks in the world. Hundrets of high ranking engineering and security tests companys gave us their highes ranking for their lock. Some even introduced new security classes just for the lock. Now we have to market it in a perfect way. Which lable should be our front runner in our marketing campaigne"
Joe comes in slamming the door: "LPL said it is probably good enough"
"IT IS DECIDED THEN"
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Jo mama
:-))))
@@Johan-tn2wtJo mama who?
LPL : "it's all good, but if I use this toothpick and press here, it pops open."
This is the closest yet to an actual LPL recommendation….So I bought the exact same model to secure my e-bike 😁. As he says…the skill and tools needed are not going to be carried by your average opportunist kid - hanging around outside the local convenience store. An angle grinder will defeat it in seconds and a heavy duty bolt cutter might, but these attacks are clumsy, noticeable and need forethought. It IS a hefty 3Kg and stowing it might be a problem…I’m going for clips along the frame….wrapping this big chain around the seat post is going to be bulky and interfere with the under-saddle tail light. Probably makes a good self defence deterrent if someone suspiciously comes upto you whilst parking up! Thanks LPL👍
Ha, I made the same joke a couple days ago. If someone tried to fuck with you after you unlock it, the chain will KO anyone if swung right. lol
Really happy to see this I bought mine 7 years ago and it's still work great
Him: "Im not going to show the key on video"
Also him: "Here is how to pick it"
You’ll still have a super hard time of it unless you also have a special tool Bosnian Bill and him made
That’s like saying i now know how to play guitar because i watched a Stevie Ray Vaughn video.
I know it's obviously not a proper tutorial on how to pick it, it just made me giggle 😄
That's so you buy the tool he sells :D
I'm pretty sure if someone has the lock picking skills this guys shows they aren't stealing bicycles. Crackheads cant pick this shit. Lmao
LockPickingLawyer: the only person I know that is not afraid of losing his keys.
he doesnt have keys, he just picks every lock
@@avery5523 The problem is that you damage locks when picking them.
Him and Bosnian Bill
I believe in an older video he said the doors on his house have certain pins or something so they are unpickable, if you attemt to pick it it will permanently lock itself and will have to be drolled out because the pins fall into a groove they can't get out of
@@Xx0ME0xX Sounds a little too vague in my opinion. Sorry, but I think that you might made that up. Sure there is such technology and I am sure that LPL knows, good locks but he would never tell us where to find his door or what lock is there. The fact that there are many genes with lock picking experience in his community, means he cannot do that.
I'm glad you said "this can be picked... But this homemade tool" ups my confidence in the lock
Just purchased this lock due to your fair assessment of it. Weighs roughly 6LBS.
Thief to his friend:
"Leave that junk bike, check out this cool lock"
*precedes to cut through the bike frame with the angle grinder*
@@mirandnyan lmao
@@mirandnyan in that case a hacksaw will do just fine.
When I first saw the lock
Me: It looks beefy and heavy, that must be a tough one!!
LockPickingLawyer: "probably good enough"
Me: yeah probably good enough
Thought the same, but also bought the same lock for my 800€ bike, but also got insurance, just to be safe. 😂
If he says it’s probably good enough, I say it is outstanding in every way, and I would trust it with a $2000 bike. What I would do above that price, I can’t say.
MAYO NEIGHS, this is a edited version of your comment.
When I first saw the lock
Me: It looks beefy and heavy, that must be a tough one!!
LockPickingLawyer: "probably good enough"
Me: ok, definitly good enough
"this is the lock I use on my bike, here's how to break into it."
LPL really has faith that none of us can pull this off.
I have this one for over 10 years (maybe 15 years), no problems so far, this is fantastic bike lock
I think the best marketing ever done for this lock was LPL saying "this lock is good enough". Imagine the amount of people who gonna buy this lock just because of this review
He said probably good enough.
That's an important clarifier to leave out of *quotes*
That's literally why I bought it on amazon. If i need to shop for groceries i'll put the lock in my backpack, buy groceries, put those in the backpack and then wrap the lock around the frame
I was going to...and then I saw the price
@@evanray8413 This lock is "[...] good enough"
when i go live in the city, im definitely getting this lock.
"and here's how to open my bike lock, but good luck with that, me and Bosnian Bill had to custom build a device in order to pick this thing which is almost definitely something that an average bike thief wouldn't have."
"Also even if you have the tool it requires years of practice to hone that level of touch" So get practicing, mortals.
Hey now, this is only if their "Diamond Impregnated" cutting device fails.
Hi I’m in the market for a bike locker and I found your videos. I can’t understand if what you do in few seconds is something that an average thief can do or if something that only a very skilled one can do.
If you would spend more money does any of the commercial locker have a more “resistant” key lock that would take much more time to be open? Can you suggest any? Thanks
@@al404
Most bike thieves wouldn't be able to do this. Generally, regardless of the lock, most thieves will just use bolt cutters or an angle grinder. Since those two tools will quickly bypass 90% of locks with zero practice or skill, there is no reason for your average thief to learn to pick locks.
To pick it, yea, most bike thieves won't be able to. What, exactly, are you planning to lock it to, though, that it wouldn't be significantly easier to just attack that instead of the lock?
You just give an exceptional seminar on how to cannibalise this very lock. Very clever
this is one of the very few channels youtube throws in my recommendation that i actually enjoy
I watch most every episode. I have no bike, car, truck, I live in a gated apartment block with security, I am so old I probably could not pick up this lock, or many that are shown. LPL tells a good story, non fiction, that is why I watch.
Time to get swole then
@@mechanicalvision3735 yes xD
Me too.
a good story? lmao the dude is just picking locks.....and you are like comparing it to the Game of Thrones or something 😂
No not comparing to GoT. For me this is much better than commercial TV programing. That’s that.
This should be a seal of aproval: "Lockpicking Lawyer's Probably Good Enough".
I already imagine it in packages at the hardware store.
LPL's "GE" Seal of Approval
Rated E for everyone
@@SteeringWheelOperator *PGE
Super Good Enough
I had this chain for my bike when I was younger, chained it through the lower frame and where getting to the lock was difficult, I had a guy try stealing it apparently since a passerby told me "I want to let you know someone tried stealing that bike and we stopped him" I thanked them as it was my only form of transport as a kid for work.
In the UK theres a company that makes to order their chains (really thick and heavy) and locks for motorcycles, I happily can say It stood up to thefts using grinding tools and I chained it through parts of the bike that they can not remove without damaging it as these thefts tend to ride what they steal. It gave me plenty of time to call the police and then go outside to challenge them. I also had several types of locks on the bike which would take extra time off them but not by much in comparison. They changed tactics to try chase as you ride so I ended up selling it, they still didnt get to steal it off of me. VICTORY!
Any lock can be picked and its buying time and that is what my lock and chain did. You are buying time, not a unbreakable lock.
Had 2 bikes stolen using Kryptonite chains, both cut. I'm still happy with my skunklock, so far so good at least.
This channel has made me so scared that someone is going to steal my bike and I don't even have one!
Curtis John wow, someone stole it that quickly?!
@@rohansingh7698 This is a very underrated comment. Comedic genius, I love it.
@@rohansingh7698 dammit I was about to write that. Good rule of thumb I guess, check comments first:(
I have one. I just don’t ride it lol
Little known fact. The lock picking lawyer is the guy who's stealing everything.
Love how the ‘sold secure’ sticker falls off at the end after you’ve picked it!
“I’m not secure any more :(“
lol i didnt notice it!
This guys videos always leave me shaking my head.
Our daughter wanted to take the bike we got her in her teens to college - it is a Trek but not a super expensive bike, was about $400 when we bought it but with inflation, it would probably be a decent amount more to replace and because it has a nice paint job, I knew it would attract thieves so I bought this lock. the bike took a good amount of abuse being locked up outside her dorm for the year, but when we moved her out of the dorm the other day I realized that since she last rode it (not often) someone surely tried to steal it or at least vandalize it - the lock was through the frame and both wheels and at least one spoke is broken. $100 lock seems like overkill, but I think it was worth it
in college in the 90's I walked out of a study session some time between midnight & 2 am & walked up on two guys standing by my bike shoving bolt cutters back under their jacket making fake casual conversation - I'm certain had they been given 5 more minutes they would have had a very nice (I think $700 back then) bike
*How to secure your bike:*
-buy a cheap one.
Even then if your bike is easier to steal it will be gone. I had a bike I got for £10 stolen before.
most people dont know a cheap bike from an expensive one
@@grownman284 they certainly know how cheap is my 3$ "bike"
Nope, that doesnt work. Everything gets stolen. The only deterrend is a heavy lock.
No that doesn't work I had a ex rental Shogun Trailblazer 3 when I was in high school locked it up at the train station with a big chain perhaps 12 mil chain and a big Lockwood padlock and on top of that I had a master combination lock that chained the front wheel to the neck of the bike and I came back 9 hours later and somebody had actually cut the fence with a grinder or something and took the bike like legitimately it was a $5 bike that I bought at the rubbish tip
Imagine a bike thief, picking the lock and saying: SIX IS BINDING, NICE CLICK OUT OF SEVEN
Yes people don't really understand that bike thieves are usually not the highest skill level of people
@The Fox Here in my country they do it the old way. Wait for the person to unlock it, then robs him at point blank.
@The Fox you're not from the netherlands are you? *cries in stolen bike*
@@purplejinxer3478 here in the USA the bike thief usually gets a gun to his head if he attempts to rob somebody point blank
@@nicholashelms2395 cool
Just saw this video.... when I moved to NYC I had some time on my hands before my Engineering job started.... Inspired by the movie Quicksilver (lawyer turned bike messenger) I went and got a job as a bike messenger.... the hiring boss took one look at my $2000 bike and said are you kidding me... that bike won't last 2 seconds in NYC... he had me tape up the whole frame with black tape and made me buy a Krptonite lock and chain... the lock and chain weighed more than the bike... lol.... best job I ever had.... to bad the pay wasn't enough to support me in NYC the way I wanted to live.... 😃
Thanks adding this to my wish list for my bike project.
"I never leave this bike unattended"
I just picture him sleep, shower and go to the bathroom with one hand on the bike 😆
Either that or he lives with his biking buddy and they take turns, lol
He filmed this sitting on it with a desktop balanced on the handlebars
In Amsterdam, capital of The Netherlands, people living on the first floor would carry their bike all the way up to their apartment if they had to get something. Because leaving it on the ground floor for a few minutes would probably result in it getting stolen.
And the other hand on a gun
Keeps it under his pillow at night
That someone of your deep knowledge of lock security owns this particular model is about as strong an endorsement as one could imagine. Also great to hear that you're a fellow cyclist. Thank you for putting this up.
Yup, I went out and bought it - despite it probably being the heaviest lock I've ever owned. It is to protect either of my daily rides (depending on the day): A Bullitt cargo bike or my Ti Omnium cargo bike. I thought I'd need especially for the Omnium.
U locks can also be easily broken with a farm jack or one of those small car jacks that are basically like a farm jack. The chain makes the carjack version much harder.
-Remember, your bike lock is only as strong as what you have it locked too.
That's a dope little tool you and old mate made.
In 5 years he will be like
“Now this one is easy to crack open, it only takes 3 infinity stones and roughly 13 hours”
"Thank you for joining me, we are here at the federal reserve and se ar going to..."
@@fernandotrevinocastro1018 *gets in* shit..she's empty..
@@fernandotrevinocastro1018 Honestly, I wish the government would hire him for a day or two to pick all their locks. And, on top of that, makes multiple videos that don't disclose the location.
I can't imagine any other community on CZcams that would make the creator reluctant to show a key on camera.
ive seen people commenting to caution youtubers to not show their keys on camera where the video had nothing to do with lockpicking.
its generally good practice to avoid showing keys in public photos. i try to avoid doing so, or blurring the keys if it ends up in the photo. and i'm a nobody! but perhaps i am a bit paranoid.
either case better safe than sorry!
Oh come on, it's totally ridiculous. Someone is going to go through the trouble of studying a picture of the key, recreating the key, finding the stranger on the internet, following him while he's out for a bike ride, waiting for him to lock his bike, and then stealing the bike? That's pure insanity and 100x more costly than just buying your own bike.
@@chibearsfan313 Then you'd be surprised at the kind of people you'll see around here
@@jblen I always thought it doesn't matter if someone gets a picture of your key.
Than I saw someone 3D-print a working key from only a picture as reference. It was his first time trying it and he got it on his secound attemped in under half an hour including 3D-printing. The key was propably only for a single use because of the low print quality and the cheap material used but that also means everyone could replicate this feat.That was at least a year ago.
@@afrizaldaniswaraali8980 I'm not surprised by anything. But this is just dumb.
I litterally bought this lock because of you. It is great, but it is also quite heavy, this is why I tend to use it less. Which is sorta defeating the purpose. Still, I do love it. It is a very good lock.
the dude actually sell the tools he use to pick the locks he bought to protected his bike and proceed to show how to use it :D amazing !
Damn. As as bike thief my livelihood depends on bike owners starting their own CZcams channels, showing their bike lock key on that channel,researching who that person is, following them for an opportunity to use the copy of the key I made.
You win this round lock picking lawyer!
Not just researching who that person is, but some how figuring out any identifying information on LPL lol
The dude goes hard on internet security, keeping his real life so seperate from this online life.
I still find it so amazingly impressive that there exists at least *one* person untraceable from their online presense. No one knows his name, where he is, his face, which is exactly how he likes to keep it.
@@bubbadoo10 LPL's real voice is probably very different too.
@@Mr_Beuregard Really? If he's using a voice modifier it's the best I have heard because it sounds normal
@@bubbadoo10 With the proper setup Its very easy to completely change your voice. All youre doing is adjusting pitch and frequency
@@Equinox_NZ Ah, I guess my only experience with it has been ametuer attempts of changing voice where it's very easy to tell
LPL picks your bike lock, replaces your bike with a better bike, closes lock.
Or with a better lock
Ok. That's a solid prank he could do to his wife. Even if it were scripted I'd watch it
LPL is chaotic good change my mind
So i was scared to look this lock up, thinking you would smack it open by hitting it from an angle.
glad you posted it for its usage.
Thank you what you were saying about the lock made me think of a Black Crowes song chain links are hard to hold use a vice grip because chain links are hard to handle now nevermind vise grips are also good for removing broken screws
I got a bike stolen this december so I decided to up my game security wise and I got this exact same lock for my nicer new bike after watching one of your previous video.
During first week there was already one notch on a link showing that thieves had tried to cut it without success, then today I got a second notch after leaving my bike 20 min in front of a shop. The thieves did very little damage to the link, then they punctured the back wheel probably out of spite!
Anyway thanks for your videos, by understanding how thieves bypass the locks I can counteract it better. If it was not for your videos this bike would probably be gone again!
MrGwichy do you live in Chicago?
@@smart-brian worse, in France!
@@MrGwichy like Grenoble ? ^^'
@@GhostXBOX Nantes!
It's amazing how spiteful bike thieves can be, it's like "How dare you buy a lock too strong for them to cut through!"
I once saw a bike that the thieves, after they failed to get through the hardened steel of the lock, took their bolt cutters to the poor guy's aluminium chain-stay. Basically making the bike a write-off.
The worst bit was the insurance company said as the bike wasn't stolen they wouldn't pay out... They were the real thieves that time.
"I can pick it" pulls out a self-designed tool I've never heard of that does the specific thing that will pick the lock. Yeah man, I don't think any bike thief is going to have one of whatever that thing was in their back pocket
His tool is available for $45
Yeah a bike thief would just use an angle grinder
@@samgendler Yeah and a thief is not buying it, the fact hes so good at picking locks makes him and his most frequent viewers very paranoid. The average person who will steal a cheap bike like hes describing will just see a lock and move onto the next one until they find one locked in a stupid place or no lock at all. No one with any sort of expertise is going to risk getting caught for just some bottom of the range bike
And it still gave him a little hassle. If someone could get their hands on that tool they sure as hell aren't gonna know how to use it and if by some grace they do it'll take then a good minute to do so.
@@Xighor ugh LPL said that doesnt work in the video
I know you will never see this but thanks to you and your videos I will finally be able to sleep at night. I recently moved across the country to a lesser quality of area. I have a motorcycle that I care more about than all of my other possessions combined. It is parked right outside my window, I have a dog, guns, and a fenced in yard. But still couldn’t sleep until tonight after receiving my new Kryptonite New York Fahgettaboudit 1410 with a 3.25’ 14mm chain. Thank you
Just bought one of these. It's hefty, but not as ridiculous as I feared. The weight shouldn't make much difference on my low-end e-bike.Thanks for the reccomendation.
"Local lockpicker lockpicks his own lock"
Florida man lockpicks his own lock.
That lowkey "Oh this? It's just a lockpicking tool me and my friend made. No biggie"
In the end it's about making your bike harder to steal than the one parked next to it. With most people using cheezy cables it's not that hard. However, if you have a $5000 mtb vs the next over $200 Wallyworld bike, you still need that better lock setup because they're more motivated to steal yours.
And yet the amount that a "good" lock will protect on a $5,000 mountain bike is pretty small.
Assuming you go with the traditional "lock the wheels and frame" approach, a thief can just unscrew a few bolts to walk away all the front end except the wheel -- on a $5,000 mountain bike that could easily be $1,000-2,000 in parts.
A thief who wants to be really inconspicuous will just unbolt the derailleur, undo the master link on the chain, snip the cable, and walk off with a $100-300 derailleur in their pocket.
Well now you're just gonna raise a bunch of lockpickers. That was amazing.