One Way to Stop a Bike Thief
Posted on by Kolbe
If you enjoy biking you probably use a bike lock. It’s a common method of theft deterrent, and it can work. Unfortunately though, most bike thieves these days are wise and quick enough to cut a lock off. Two San Francisco inventors were sick of the many bike thefts in the city so they decided to do something about it. They’ve created SkunkLock, a bike lock that if cut into will release a gas designed to make the thief vomit, almost uncontrollably. The lock is filled with the specialty gas, when a cut is made into the lock, the pressurized gas spews from the opening and into the face of the thief. The result would deter me from doing most things let alone steal a bike. Although the lock isn’t 100% effective in keeping you from losing your bike, it will make thieves lose their lunch.