Yeah, there’s zero chance anybody involved with writing anything over there is qualified to write that headline. First and foremost, the obvious marketing graphic from the manufacturer with the stamp style lettering “PASSED” is just bullshit. Flat out bullshit. An additional example is this entirely made up statement,
Folding locks are also largely impervious to leverage attacks (like when thieves put a car jack in a U-lock).
What? WHAT?? So it’s “hardened”, it locks physically closed, and the claim here is that you can’t use enough force to destroy those puny articulating joints? Yeah, no.
And,
The hardened steel links defeat bolt cutters
Well, we see the bolt cutters made it through what I assume is a thick shitty plastic coating and attempted to cut the metal all at once, from a direction in which the force over the jaws are minimized. Nice marketing trick, but here in the real world I’d take nibbles out of that metal strip in no time or I’d rotate my cutters and split that thing in no time.
… and use high-security rivets with such high precision that you can’t get a nut splitter in there.
Oh, okay, someone doesn’t know what a nut splitter is or what it does, and they just repeated the marketing copy they received. Nicely done.
And of course we haven’t even got to the lock itself, which I guarantee that at $125 for “hardened steel”, they didn’t splurge on a good one. Man Electrek really is just garbage at all times on all topics.
That is unfortunate. I don’t really follow the topic, but at one point I was looking for an e bike with low range and everything I could find was just click bait garbage. Didn’t end up needing it in the long run, so never bothered to keep up.
REI Co-op, Aventon Pace, or Lectric XP 3 would have been decent choices if you’re ever looking for something like that in the future. Wait for a good sale and you could probably get one for relatively little.
Yeah, there’s zero chance anybody involved with writing anything over there is qualified to write that headline. First and foremost, the obvious marketing graphic from the manufacturer with the stamp style lettering “PASSED” is just bullshit. Flat out bullshit. An additional example is this entirely made up statement,
What? WHAT?? So it’s “hardened”, it locks physically closed, and the claim here is that you can’t use enough force to destroy those puny articulating joints? Yeah, no.
And,
Well, we see the bolt cutters made it through what I assume is a thick shitty plastic coating and attempted to cut the metal all at once, from a direction in which the force over the jaws are minimized. Nice marketing trick, but here in the real world I’d take nibbles out of that metal strip in no time or I’d rotate my cutters and split that thing in no time.
Oh, okay, someone doesn’t know what a nut splitter is or what it does, and they just repeated the marketing copy they received. Nicely done.
And of course we haven’t even got to the lock itself, which I guarantee that at $125 for “hardened steel”, they didn’t splurge on a good one. Man Electrek really is just garbage at all times on all topics.
Most micromobility journalism is pretty bad unfortunately.
That is unfortunate. I don’t really follow the topic, but at one point I was looking for an e bike with low range and everything I could find was just click bait garbage. Didn’t end up needing it in the long run, so never bothered to keep up.
REI Co-op, Aventon Pace, or Lectric XP 3 would have been decent choices if you’re ever looking for something like that in the future. Wait for a good sale and you could probably get one for relatively little.
Thanks for the tips!
Security is all about image because security is a product sold to suckers.