Help! My bike is locked up at work and I've lost the keys!

[L1ght]

Okay so the situation is I've locked my bike up at work and lost the keys. Its a D-lock which uses a flat key and I don't have a spare. No department at my work wants anything to do with it and basically says its down to me. I work at a big hospital so found this kind of weird that they didn't want to help at all. I have full documentation that its my bike and said this but have been told by every department that its up to me.

any advice?

 

[kefan77]

 

[touch]

Can you fit your car jack inside the d-lock?

 

[SkodaMart]

angle grinder and safety goggles.

 

[L1ght]

Yeah possibly there's quite a lot of space as the lock is just around the frame and then a fixed pipe.

 

[L1ght]

Power tools are out of the question unless I get security to do it.

 

[bainbridge]

De-icer and a hammer? (unless thats a myth).

Jack (as mentioned).

Hacksaw the lock body (not the loop of steel).

Hacksaw the pipe?

 

[L1ght]

Cool I'll give the ideas a go. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[L1ght]

My bike is free! The jack did the job. I had fears when the d-lock said made in Germany!

Thanks again for the help

 

[Vonhelmet]

Now just try not to think too hard about how anyone with a car jack could nick your bike

 

[L1ght]

Well I know what type of d lock to buy next . I'll put a picture up in a bit to show how it ruptured.

 

[GBRusty]

Will we get sent to prison for helping a thief steal a bike?

 

[L1ght]

Well security did actually turn up and try and apprehend my dad who had some bolt cutters with him haha. They backed down when I turned up with my I.D badge though. But security want nothing to do with breaking locks on bikes so your in a bad situation if you lose your keys.

 

[neil_g]

Hack saw with metal cutting blade, will take about a minute if that to cut off.

Edit - must read full thread before posting

 

[Spursingham]

This is why registering your Lock Keys to the manufacturers websites is a good idea. Not many people I know do it.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I work at a big hospital so found this kind of weird that they didn't want to help at all. I have full documentation that its my bike and said this but have been told by every department that its up to me.

I work at a big hospital and we've had loads of bike thefts and funnily enough the CCTV hasn't been on in all cases.
Get yourself a Kryptonite New York M18 because according to a security site it takes 5 minutes to get through it with a plasma cutter.

Now waits for some idiot to post a You Tube film of somebody getting in an old Kryptonite lock with a pen

 

[L1ght]

Way ahead of you. I got a kryptonite bike lock on Tuesday with a free flex cable and have registered the keys online. It doesn't look like a car jack could get through this as easily.