Scandal!
2004-09-18 at 11:26 a.m.
First page of the Oregonion, above the fold:"Bicyclists toting a load of Kryptonite anxiety."
A sign of Portland and its bike fanatacism, but also a sign of, quite frankly, the shock.
Not into bikes? Don't know what I'm talking about?
It's the U-shaped lock that everyone uses. The key is shaped like a little cylinder. Or, apparently, like one of those 10-cent Bic pens, the white ones that you buy by the boxload that write like crap. Twenty seconds and what was the gold standard in bike saftey is open like a drunk American college student backpacking in Prague.
Check it out here and here and here for Kryptonite's response.
Part of me is rather in awe of what a DISASTER this is for Kryptonite. There's a set of employees who aren't having a good weekend.
But most of me is thinking: people, it's a bike lock. Yes, it's news, and I'm glad I'm learning this before trusting what I've always trusted, but there's people dying in Iraq, there's a presidential election on that will seriously have a huge effect on the next four years, Bush is still hiding the crap about his national guard debacle, and in the end, this is a bike lock.