Bike lock can climb lamp posts to deter crooks

[Jazzy]

Bikes get stolen. Even when locked to a lamp posts -- but what if they where locked to a lamp post and raised 15ft off the ground?



That's the question a group of German inventors asked themselves shortly before creating a lamp post-climbing bike lock.



The team from German electronic components firm Conrad dreamt up the gizmo as part of a recent advertising campaign.



Made from motorised skateboard wheels, the device locks a cycle to a lamppost and then climbs 15ft up taking your bike out of the reach of crooks.



Bikers then simply press a button on a remote control to get their bike returned when they're ready to ride off… unless the battery has run out, or someone had locked their bike under yours.



A spokesperson for Conrad say the bike lock took a tech-savvy team of seven people 14 days to complete.



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Story link: http://newslite.tv/2010/11/29/bike-lock-can-climb-lamp-posts.html

 

[beowulf]

somehow i dont think that will catch on if you have to carry a big lump of metal round with you in a pouch..........not the nicest of things to be carrying if you come off a bike

 

[Evil Eye]

Brilliant!

 

[Corleone]

lol It's interesting, but I doubt it'll become a new trend. Lock it up securely and if it gets stolen it gets stolen, it is what it is, but I never see myself hoisting my bike 15ft in the air to prevent theft. If someone cuts the lock on my bike and steals it, he/she probably needs it more than me anyways.