The obvious second question is what if your bike has non-magnetic titanium, aluminum or stainless steel bolts?

A new system called Hexlox allows you to block existing bolts on your bike so thieves can’t take your components.
“To secure a saddle or wheel, simply insert a Hexlox with your unique personal key into the bolt you want to prevent,” says Hexlox.
“Then the latch is instantly locked and any unwanted access is magically blocked. Your standard deadbolt is now a safe deadbolt. Only you can access it with your key.
Obviously, this system is not designed to prevent the theft of the whole bike, you will need a strong lock for this.
The obvious second question is what if your bike has non-magnetic titanium, aluminum or stainless steel bolts?
Well, Hexlox developers offer magnetic inserts for these bolts or replacement bolts.
Well, to ask the obvious third question: so a well-informed thief can pull a Hexlocks with a magnet, right?
“We… tested it against tweezers, lockpicks, needle nose pliers, alligator clips/vises, hammers, liquid ice, hacksaws, screwdrivers and more,” says Hexlocks.
You can uninstall Hexlox yourself with a key. This is not a Hexlox public key, it is specific to your Hexlox.
The system is designed to work with any standard hex bolt. If your bike wheel uses a quick release lever, you will need to replace it with a hex wrench lever for the Hexlox to work properly.
Various Hexlox packages are available if you are committed and the campaign achieves its goals.
We have noticed that you are using an ad blocker. If you like road.cc but don’t like the ads, consider subscribing to the site to support us directly. As a subscriber, you only pay £1.99 to read road.cc ad-free.
If you don’t want to subscribe, please disable your ad blocker. Advertising revenue helps fund our website.
If you enjoyed this article, consider subscribing to road.cc for just £1.99. Our mission is to bring you all the cycling news, independent reviews, unbiased buying advice and more. Your subscription will help us do more.
Mat has been in the cycling media since 1996, publishing publications such as BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and has also been an editor for 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus magazines. Mat has been road.cc’s tech editor for over a decade, testing bikes, tweaking the latest kit and trying on the latest clothes. We send it worldwide to receive all news about launches and shows. He won the Ironman UK 70.3 category and finished on the podium in both marathons he competed. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who is a graduate journalism writer and is the winner of the Cycling Media Award for Internet Writer Specialist. Now in his 50s, he rides road and gravel bikes most of the time for fun and fitness rather than training for competition.
When we discussed the situation with the 70-year-old, you changed the position of the target when you asked about the hypothetical “scissor” …
This is something I also thought about at the beginning of the pandemic, and I thought, “Well, the proof of the ILI is that they don’t…
They have always been poor. The previous owner publicly stated years ago that if it wasn’t cheaper than everyone else, no one would…
I had several of these boxes at my small hardware store and managed to replace the leaky seal on my marzochi Z2 and replace the weird spring on the bottom of mine….
Lack of shared thinking? The Council has just spent £170,000 to remove a bike path at Nechelle. Small city centers will be more round…
Editorial, General: info[at]road.cc Tech, Reviews: tech[at]road.cc Fantasy Cycling: Games[at]road.cc Advertising, Business: sales[at]road.cc View our media kit
All content © FarrellyAtkinson (F-At) Limited, Unit 7b Green Park Station BA11JB. Phone 01225 588855. © 2008 – Now unless otherwise noted. Terms and conditions of use.