Kryptonite Settlement
There was a big story about six months ago that Kryptonite U-Lock
bicycle locks could be picked with a Bic pen. I tried mine and got
through it in about 2-4 minutes, and I figure with practice I could
compete with the videos floating around the net showing people picking
the locks in seconds. It looks like there is good news for people
with these bike locks - Kryptonite has finished a class action
settlement and are replacing the locks. Read
or go to kryptonite.com and start
filling out the forms to get your lock replaced! (The settlement
only applies to people who bought their locks between 1998 and roughly
the time when the story broke about being able to pick the locks).