Customer Reviews

Schwinn 12MM Cable Combo Bicycle Lock

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This bike lock is obviously a POS. I see other people have gotten it cut - mine was broken with a hammer or something at the combination area. DON'T BUY THIS LOCK.

That says it all. My bike, which was not very nice, new, or valuable, but still made for a great commute, was locked up (properly) to a bike rack in front of the building where I work. This is on a very high-end-shopping street in Chicago with lots of traffic.

Bam, lock was cut, bike is gone. It looks like the cable was cut with one snip. I'll never buy a lock without an anti-theft guarantee again.

I have owned and carefully locked my bicycle for 5 years. Two weeks ago, I purchased this Schwinn lock with my new Schwinn bike, because the brand name seemed very reputable. Two days ago, using this product to secure my bike on a rack in front of a very safe Whole Foods, the lock was picked/cable cut, and my bicycle was stolen. There were security guards and parking lot attendants and security cameras, so this lock was cut incredibly swiftly and easily.

There's good reason this product doesn't have an anti-theft guarantee. For a few more dollars on your lock, you can keep from losing hundreds on your bike. Lesson learned: I'll be sticking to the Masterlock U-lock (which has an anti-theft guarantee) from now on.

I bought this lock, set a combination, and used it approximately three times until one day while my bike was locked outside the gym it suddenly wouldn't open with the right combo!!! I struggled with it, walked home (thankfully I don't live that far away) watched some youtube videos on how to open one of these without knowing the combo, still no use. The lock must have internally broken, or somehow the combo changing ring got turned before I locked it (unlikely because it's pretty hard to turn). I ended up having to borrow someone's large wire cutter and it took me about 3 minutes to cut through the wire. What a pile of garbage! Stay away, you might get a "lucky" one like me!

My bicycle was stolen yesterday while I used this lock. It was stolen from a high traffic area in front of tons of people so it must not have take much effort to cut through this lock. Looks like it was a single cut. Like another reviewer said, I will never buy another lock without a theft guarantee. This lock is worse than no lock at all because it gives you a false sense of security.

I'm really angry that I bought this lock. Sure it was cheap and so I can't expect good quality, but this was absurdly bad. The instructions for the "Ez Reset Combination" said to line up "----" with the dashes on the lock housing, but there was only one problem - there were no dashes on the lock. There were zeros however. I tried this and 0000 didn't work either. You know what did work? 0008. WTF? This lock sucks. Don't they have quality control people who check for this sort of thing? Also, the instructions were riddled with typos and grammatical errors. Sad. Don't buy this bike lock. You can do better.

Bike was stolen from a rack in the middle of a high school quad. They left the cut lock. Absolutely no use. Don't trust a bike to this lock. Why can't I give zero stars???

Tonight when I got home from taking two bikes to the bike store for tune-ups (and running a few errands, which was why I locked the bikes up with this Schwinn lock), I was going to remove the bikes from my car's bike rack. First, I needed to unlock the Schwinn lock that was holding them together and keeping them locked to the bike rack. I put in my combo, and the lock would not open. My husband and I both tugged and pulled on it as hard as we could, to no avail. The bikes are still locked together on the bike rack on the back of my car until I can get to the hardware store tomorrow for some bolt cutters. Don't buy this lock!!!

I had this working for a week. One day I went to unlock the bike to ride to the store from my house and the lock was jammed. I tried WD-40, a lighter, a flathead screwdriver a hammer and my foot. It's been two days now and I'm borrowing a lock cutter from my campus security to free my bike and threw this POS away! What a WASTE! I too should have read the reviews but I needed a lock. I had to get a U-lock on my bike to prevent anyone from stealing the bike while this lock was on it!!!!

Actually thank god that bolt cutters snip through this thing because if you accidentally flick your wrist a certain way while locking this bike **the combo lock resets itself**. Which is why I'm sitting here writing this and my bike is no longer hostage at my area Whole Foods (I tried 30 minutes of "one off" number combos before running to my local hardware store, it had done this once before and I had figured out the new combo)

But that really makes this bike lock $35.00 more expensive than listed (price of said bolt cutters). And it also makes my bike a lot easier to steal.

Guy at the hardware store who commiserated suggested kryptonite...says they are impossible to cut and most lock with a key - just better not lose that key.