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 ...

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 ...

In September, Kryptonite took a lot of heat from aggrieved consumers, angry when a poster to bikeforums.net uploaded a video showing how easy it was for a certain type of cheap Bic pen to open a ...

BikeBiz.com has been following the Kryptonites-can-be-opened-with-a-Bic story since it first broke, see index below. This site urged Kryptonite to get registered with the forum that first posted the ...