How to unlock a bike lock with a pen
Cracking Bike Locks With a Pen!
this week on scam school it's one of the
most notorious lock-picking hacks of all
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folks I'm Brian brushwood this week we
are back again with the Longhorn
lock-picking Club where we're going to
tackle one of the most notorious one of
these zipless bicycle lock opening acts
of all time you put an echo on there
right all right guys toast me
here's back again with J Gore and dug
far the founder of the UT Longhorn
lock-picking Club all right as soon as I
got into Loch pickings there was rumors
that one of the most popular by clocks
on the freakin planet could be defeated
with the simplest of devices at all and
a freakin big pen could open up a
kryptonite a brand that has built itself
on being virtually you know
indestructible
yeah are the rumors true yeah brooms are
absolutely true and it's something
that's been highly publicized I think in
a lot of media and movies how did this
come back up like like someone just
figured in that one day they're like
what's the dumbest thing I could stick
in this look a pen oh my god it worked
and I think it started with a toilet
paper roll actually they just tied it up
really tight and notice that if you
stick it into a lock and start turning
the pins actually pushed their way into
the material of this toilet paper roll I
believe it was someone from the open
organization of lock triggers another
hobbyist through who discovered this and
publicized it so talk me through first
of all this is the kind of circular
locks that you see like on vending
machines or or and emeriti lock fires
yeah so this is officially called a
tubular lock and it's just like a normal
lock except instead of having the pins
arranged linearly and in a row we have
them circularly so you'll notice if you
look down in that key way there are
seven pins sticking out for oh yeah you
can definitely see that just like in a
typical door lock or home lock the same
concept except instead of picking the
key in hitting the Kinze one by one as
it goes down the line we're taking a key
that effectively hits all the pins at
once sets them to the correct height and
allows it to rotate open so if I'm
understanding this correctly the same
device that is pushing the pins down is
also providing the torsion on there
right now it acts as its own tension
wrench and you want a material that's
soft enough that that once a pin is
locked the material wolf will fold back
on itself as the rest of it goes down to
push the rest of the pins into place
yeah so
originally they were using this
improvised toilet paper roll trying to
wrap it to just the right diameter
someone eventually noticed that if you
take a normal plastic Vic pen pull off
the cap here and pull out the ink
cartridge this diameter is almost
perfect to fit these locks this must
have exploded word got on the street
everything everyone covered it how
quickly did the bicycle companies move
to correct this now unfortunately in the
physical world
unlike the computer world you can't just
issue a hot patch and have everything
fixed the next day so it did take a
couple of years to get the market to
even start introducing new secure locks
we should be totally fair and say that
the new if you go to the store today
this very likely will not work at all
really any modern kryptonite lock is
going to be protected against this this
is really a targeting something that's
many years old there's plenty of these
still out in the field in use like for
example in your own garage which is the
only place you should be practicing
exactly all right look I want to know
whether or not this actually works let's
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all right we've heard the legends I want
to know if it's true which of you will
face the beast let me give it a shot all
right so we got this lock it's clearly
locked right now I'm gonna take my
specialized pick here pull out the in
cartridge now to start with this
diameter is just slightly smaller than
the lock itself so we're gonna do is try
to work it on to the middle of this lock
here so I'm gonna kind of go in a
circular motion stretching out the
plastic of the lock now once we get it a
little bit secure it onto the lock we're
gonna hold a turning force the same way
we'd we'd turn like a tension wrench in
normal picking well that's gonna do is
it's gonna bind up the pins inside there
so I got my slight turning force I'm
gonna kind of rock it back and forth
like this while I'm turning hoping that
I'm binding up those pins and letting
them push into the plastic it's so from
this point for where you always have a
little counterclockwise tension on there
yes and of course if you haven't seen it
make sure to check out our previous
episode on an advanced lock picking so
at this point you're just rolling around
hoping to get that moment when all of
the pins are lined up and the the cool
part about this attack is if it works
for that particular second your bic pen
is now the real key for this line in the
case where you have an older or rusted
lock I've seen just spray wd-40 but I've
seen don't do that it'll damage and walk
what you want to do is put my graphite
in there if you guys have a preference
yeah so wd-40 is sort of a no-no in lock
so you can do it once but then sort of
expect to throw that lock away because
it'll get gunked-up to hell afterwards
it really it really attracts dust and
and grime into the lock and makes it a
lot more hard a lot harder to open not
that I'm gonna accuse you of failure but
let's say at some point you feel you
realize it's not gonna work but you can
always pull the pick the pen out cut off
just the area where you've sort of
lightened it out and start over from
scratch okay actually foremost we got to
give a huge thanks to our friends over
at the Longhorn lock-picking Club make
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them how much you loved seeing them
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twitter.com slash wood and yes I've said
it before you should only be picking
locks that you own because there's a
word for somebody who picks other
people's locks who's called it [ __ ]
don't be that guy in fact if I see that
God I'm a punchable make sure I don't
draw you
so of course we got to give a huge
thanks to our friends over at the
Longhorn lock-picking Club make sure to
hit up their website and say sorry on
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give a high five then rub elbows and
then do little shuffle dance that's what
you do this doesn't have to be the exact
dance this was just an example of a
dance you might do for them you might
you know throw them some of these a
couple of these a little bit Oh like
that I mean it's your choice anyway make
sure
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