If the front wheel locks, the rider will almost certainly lose control and crash.
The wheel lock itself wouldn't give until he got a foot against the pump.
Suddenly, at one point along the road, the steering wheel locks in its present position.
What we call a 'flintlock' is actually a much less complicated device than a wheel lock.
He saw one horseman firing his wheel lock at him.
The one who had fired at him earlier was drawing a new wheel lock.
The commander drew his wheel lock and waved it forward.
Screaming rage and terror, the Croats tried to return fire with their wheel locks.
It was as if they were determined to dart between the lead balls from the wheel locks.
However the wheel locks can be broken and the trolley is movable again.