BOSTON — Bike lock maker Kryptonite struggled to reassure customers and protect its reputation on Friday after the disclosure that its famous U-lock could be opened by a ballpoint pen. Kryptonite said ...

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Bicycle riders on campus know the secret is out. U-shaped Kryptonite tubular cylinder bike locks–previously regarded as some of the most secure on the market–can be picked by inserting the back end of ...

Engadget reader Chester Bullock decided to toss Kryptonite the link and video we posted about picking their Evolution 2000's lock with a plain ol' Bic pen. And we can't say it wasn't a good idea, but ...

Kryptonite can be neutralized with a BIC ballpoint pen. Well, not exactly. The superpowered U-shaped bike lock, impervious to heavy-duty bolt cutters, bullets, and even the man of steel’s arch-enemy ...

You don’t have to be the Man of Steel to open a Kryptonite bike lock. Faster than a speeding bullet, word is spreading across the Internet, through cyclist hangouts and into bike shops that all it ...

I'm supposed to be working when a co-worker sends everyone in the office an "interesting link" to a newsgroup post claiming that the nigh-invulnerable Kryptonite bike lock can be opened with a Bic pen ...

IT LOOKS AS though thieves have come up with kryptonite for the fearsome Kryptonite bike locks: a Bic ballpoint pen. The back of a plastic pen twisted into the hole for cylindrical keys pops open the ...

Local cycle store owners reacted with shock and disbelief yesterday at the news that the popular Kryptonite locks could be defeated with a ballpoint pen. “A ballpoint pen? “The ones that we have are ...

The triumph last week of the Bic pen over expensive, state-of-the- art steel locks has panicked the bicycling community, and churned Internet rumor mills about how much the lock manufacturer knew and ...