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Title: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: andygates on 18 July, 2008, 07:36:03 pm
Somehow I've managed to change the code on my cafe wire.  Luck let me find the new code, but I don' like it.  Can anyone remember how to change the codes on these locks?
Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: Paul Smith SRCC on 18 July, 2008, 10:13:49 pm
Quote from: andygates on 18 July, 2008, 07:36:03 pm
Somehow I've managed to change the code on my cafe wire.  Luck let me find the new code, but I don' like it.  Can anyone remember how to change the codes on these locks?
The Abus Combi Flex (http://www.abus.de/us/main.asp?ScreenLang=us&sid=4539453392302081807200890200197232&select=0104b07&artikel=4003318429217) looks very similar to the Squires version (http://www.bikeplus.co.uk/graphics/Squires_Retractable_Lockth.jpg), you can see in that Squires link that I made some instructions of how to set the combination as the instructions it comes with were not that clear, looking so similar there may be a chance the combination is set the same way.

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Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: andygates on 18 July, 2008, 10:18:42 pm
yACF does it again!  Thanks :)
Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: Greenbank on 18 July, 2008, 11:25:54 pm
007?
Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: Zoidburg on 19 July, 2008, 03:41:36 pm
Quote from: Greenbank on 18 July, 2008, 11:25:54 pm
007?
666...
Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: PeteB99 on 19 July, 2008, 07:23:51 pm
Why bother - if it's as bad as the one I had you can pull it apart bare handed :hand:

Throw it away - even for a cafe lock you need something better than that
Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: Paul Smith SRCC on 20 July, 2008, 08:06:14 am
Quote from: PeteB99 on 19 July, 2008, 07:23:51 pm
Why bother - if it's as bad as the one I had you can pull it apart bare handed :hand:

Throw it away - even for a cafe lock you need something better than that
I bother with my cafe lock as I use it on the occasions where I wouldn't normally take anything, so if I did throw it away then that would mean I have no deterrent as apposed to a slight one, which may just make the difference.

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Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: andygates on 20 July, 2008, 11:40:25 pm
Hell, it says on the pack that it's to prevent walk-away thefts, not real thefts.  I know just how feeble it is.  I also know how small and light it is. 
Title: Re: How to change the code on an Abus Combiflex cafe-wire lock?
Post by: Paul Smith SRCC on 21 July, 2008, 09:14:14 am
Quote from: andygates on 20 July, 2008, 11:40:25 pm
Hell, it says on the pack that it's to prevent walk-away thefts, not real thefts.  I know just how feeble it is.  I also know how small and light it is. 
I also bought one as previously when my club mates and I parked our bikes in a group we would use our 'toe strap specials', unlooping the toe strap from the right pedal toe clip and then looping it through the non drive side chain stay of the next bike, took a few seconds, we can't do that now as we are all clipless; these cafe locks as far as we are concerned are the new 'toe strap specials'  ;D

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