Locks

[Ekul Namsob]

Pete Biggs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ekul Namsob wrote:
>
> > Do you know how old the relevant locks are? One of my bikes is
> > routinely secured with a Kryptonite lock and I'm now concerned.
>
> Your lock will be the relevant type if the key is tubular.

Ah.

I've just found the following on their website:

"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year
and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are
no longer taking new registration for this program."

Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.

Cheers,
Luke


--
Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in
exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

 

[Pete Biggs]

Ekul Namsob wrote:

> I've just found the following on their website:
>
> "Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a
> year and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free.
> However, we are no longer taking new registration for this program."
>
> Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.

It wasn't unconditional anyway. They weren't replacing very old ones, or
you needed the receipt or something like that - because I couldn't get mine
replaced.

Still, 400,000 is an incredible number. Amazing that Kryptonite is still in
business!

~PB

 

[Tony Raven]

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> It wasn't unconditional anyway. They weren't replacing very old ones, or
> you needed the receipt or something like that - because I couldn't get mine
> replaced.
>

Mine was replaced, no questions, no receipt. Just took it to a FedEx
depot with details they provided for free collection and then a few
weeks later the new one arrived at home. At the time it was 5-7 years
old.

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

 

[Pete Biggs]

Tony Raven wrote:

>> It wasn't unconditional anyway. They weren't replacing very old
>> ones, or you needed the receipt or something like that - because I
>> couldn't get mine replaced.
>
> Mine was replaced, no questions, no receipt. Just took it to a FedEx
> depot with details they provided for free collection and then a few
> weeks later the new one arrived at home. At the time it was 5-7 years
> old.

Mine was older than that and I wasn't officially entitled to a replacement
for some reason or other. I made the mistake of assuming Kryptonite would
follow their own rules!

~PB

 

[David Damerell]

Quoting Ekul Namsob <[email protected]>:
>"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year
>and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are
>no longer taking new registration for this program."
>Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.

You could try getting pissy with the Sale of Goods Act. Manifestly not fit
for purpose.
--
David Damerell <[email protected]> Distortion Field!
Today is First Potmos, October.

 

[marc]

David Damerell wrote:
> Quoting Ekul Namsob <[email protected]>:
>> "Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year
>> and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are
>> no longer taking new registration for this program."
>> Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
>
> You could try getting pissy with the Sale of Goods Act. Manifestly not fit
> for purpose.


Surely it was fit for purpose when it was sold? Just becaseu someone
later invents a new way of disabling the lock later doesn't change that?

 

[Ekul Namsob]

David Damerell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Ekul Namsob <[email protected]>:
> >"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year
> >and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are
> >no longer taking new registration for this program."
> >Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
>
> You could try getting pissy with the Sale of Goods Act. Manifestly not fit
> for purpose.

I could try. However, that act covers my contract with the retailer and
I've now had the lock so long that I couldn't honestly claim to know
where I bought the lock.

I'll just put it down to 'one of those things'.

Cheers,
Luke

--
Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in
exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

 

[Tony Raven]

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> Surely it was fit for purpose when it was sold? Just becaseu someone
> later invents a new way of disabling the lock later doesn't change that?
>

There was evidence at the time it surfaced that the problem had been
known 12yrs before the infamous bic video.

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

 

[POHB]

On 9 Oct, 08:45, POHB <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's the remains of a bike that I pass on my homeward commute. It
> had been locked to some railings with a D lock that looks just like
> the one I bought fromWilkinsonsfor about 3 quid. Over the days I
> saw the usual damage from wheel stamping, then the wheels went
> completely. Last time I saw it I was very impressed as someone had
> clearly tried to remove the frame from the railings by picking it up
> and twisting. The two arms of the shackle of the lock were twisted
> around each other 360 degrees but it was still in one piece and the
> locking mechanism hadn't popped.

Update for anyone who cares. The bike has now gone but the lock is
still there. Presumably the council found it easier to cut the frame
than the lock. I'm even more impressed.