Farm-built Fryars wheel lock tackles annoying ATV thefts
Will Fryars demos the Keyless ATV Lock, normally positioned inside a building © Will Fryars Eight years of head-scratching, metal cutting, welding and more head-scratching has gone into the design of a new ATV security device that’s now patented and on sale.
Will Fryars says he and his dad built 42 prototypes before finalising the format, illustrating their determined efforts to build an anti-theft gizmo in their Lancashire farm-based workshop that is quick and easy to secure and release.
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With the Keyless ATV Lock, they reckon to have done it: a bolt-down, auto-locking, drive-in, drive-out device constructed from 5mm mild steel plate that doesn’t take up a lot of space. No keys are involved; releasing a quad bike or side-by-side buggy involves no more than pressing a key fob button.
The lock needs to be bolted down in a corner of a building against a right-hand wall to prevent tampering. Driving the ATV into a rolling steel shroud fully encloses the front-right wheel, and that is all it takes to secure the vehicle because of the self-locking feature.
Power is needed to release the mechanism that secures the vehicle using a key fob, so an available electricity socket must be close by. There is a way of releasing the lock in the event of power loss – but for obvious reasons that is not revealed here.
Having finalised the specification for the 24in and 25in tyres commonly fitted to quad bikes, Will is now busy measuring up versions to fit other ATV and UTV tyre sizes.
In the meantime, the device has caught the attention of his local machinery dealer, Clarke & Pullman, covering west Lancashire, and all-terrain specialist Dalton’s ATVs in south Wales, which are the initial sales outlets.
The Keyless ATV Lock is priced at £1,295 plus VAT.