Coluber42
01-27-2014, 10:19 AM
I've been getting really pissed at my lock. It's this one: http://www.kryptonitelock.com/Pages/ProductInformation.aspx?PNumber=000853
I got it last summer, so this is the first year I've used it in the winter, and it has a bad habit of freezing up on me so that I'll get somewhere and try to open it to lock up my bike, and I can't get it open. Or I get back to my bike and I can't unlock it. I am sure this is because when I come in from outside, water condenses in it, and then I go out again and the condensation freezes. I use this lock every day, and I've only had this problem when it's below 20° out. But I've been bike commuting in all weather for 20 years and I have never had this problem with any other lock I've ever used. I've sprayed various varieties of lubricant into it, and it still happens sometimes. A couple of weeks ago I got to a gig and couldn't get the lock open and had to bring my bike inside (which fortunately I was able to do). Last night I got back to my bike after dinner with some friends and I finally managed to get it unlocked by blowing into the keyhole for awhile. But standing around on the sidewalk in 16° weather blowing into my bike lock was not really what I wanted to be doing at that moment.
I'm not really expecting any help with it, particularly... just griping, really. ;)
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I got it last summer, so this is the first year I've used it in the winter, and it has a bad habit of freezing up on me so that I'll get somewhere and try to open it to lock up my bike, and I can't get it open. Or I get back to my bike and I can't unlock it. I am sure this is because when I come in from outside, water condenses in it, and then I go out again and the condensation freezes. I use this lock every day, and I've only had this problem when it's below 20° out. But I've been bike commuting in all weather for 20 years and I have never had this problem with any other lock I've ever used. I've sprayed various varieties of lubricant into it, and it still happens sometimes. A couple of weeks ago I got to a gig and couldn't get the lock open and had to bring my bike inside (which fortunately I was able to do). Last night I got back to my bike after dinner with some friends and I finally managed to get it unlocked by blowing into the keyhole for awhile. But standing around on the sidewalk in 16° weather blowing into my bike lock was not really what I wanted to be doing at that moment.
I'm not really expecting any help with it, particularly... just griping, really. ;)
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