Before riding to work from the gym, I noticed some damage to my bike’s d-lock cable. I'm not sure when it happened, and since I rarely leave my bike locked up, I suspect it wasn't intentional. However, one can never be certain.
by WintersInBerlin
Before riding to work from the gym, I noticed some damage to my bike’s d-lock cable. I'm not sure when it happened, and since I rarely leave my bike locked up, I suspect it wasn't intentional. However, one can never be certain.
by WintersInBerlin
25 Comments
Wear tear theres a smaller one further up and no depression in the rubber. Also prob the most underload part of the cable
Too smooth to be wear and tear. Would expect to be more jagged edges
Also, I have the same kryptonite cable that’s about 13 years old at this point with no signs of damage like that.
Either wear & tear or someone tried to cut a bike lock with a pair of scissors.
Wear & tear seems more likely.
The vinyl is just getting brittle. They all do that eventually. The more sun, the faster it happens.
Wear and tear
If someone was deliberately trying to cut that cable, they would’ve just cut clean thru it pretty handily. Thats likely just cracked plastic.
wear and tear unless they went at it with plastic safety scissors.
Check for marks on a metal wire
I see this all the time. Perfectly normal.
Either way, it’s your sign to replace it with a U-lock.
Definitely wear and tear. Most any cutter (except scissors) would go thru that cable like butter
Happens often to cable locks used in the cold
Wear and tear. If they wanted to cut thru that cable they would in two seconds
Its normal. The plastic sheathing in my cable chain is literally gone. I just use in conjunction with my beefy U-lock to secure my bike seat and front wheel.
I mark the beginning of cold season by how inflexible my cables become.
There is not even a scratch on the steel underneath.
Most likely UV causing cracking of the plastic.
Could be either. Looks clean though, so maybe wire cutters cheap and ineffective or someone got interrupted and just bolted.
And either way, if you’re locking your bike up with this, time to get a ulock or a decent folding lock.
Maybe some particularly stupid tweaker tried taking a knife to it, but to me it looks like the rubber became brittle over time, and cracked under tension when the cable bent. You’d have to get up on the wire with at least a macro lens to tell.
Given that a pair of $20 cable snips would go right through that, I’m voting wear and tear.
It doesn’t look indented on the metal. I’m gonna go wear and tear.
That’s wear and tear. If someone tried to cut it, you’d notice indentation on the cable, and the damage to the vinyl coating would be straight like a pair of bolt cutters, not jagged as it appears.
I hate to break it to you but if someone tried to cut that they either got stopped very quickly or have the weakest wrists in history. I have several pairs of side cutters that absolutely destroy those cable locks. As well a decent $7 hack saw and you cut through them in 5-7 swipes. Those locks only stop walk away theft at the best, any tool based attacks will likely work. It was almost certainly damaged on regular wear and tear, even with that please get a better lock OP, cable locks are garbage security.
I don’t see any sign of damage to the inner cable, so more likely just wear and tear on the outer vinyl.
Wear and tear. If someone had a go at it, you wouldn’t have a bike right now. Get a ulock.
Don’t see any damage on the steel cable. Wear and tear, and mostly age and sunshine is what is causing the vinyl sheath to crack.