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Gee, their video,
OTTOLOCK is Extremely Hard to Cut is really misleading.
1. small 4 inch? diagonal cutters. Try longer handled ones, and snip a little at a time, like thieves do when cutting a cable lock.
2. Tin snips. These aren't even
aviation snips which have way more leverage and better handles, and they don't try to cut near the pivot part of the blades! (did they loosen the pivot bolt? the lock strap seems to slide in between the blades.)
3. bolt cutters. Again, not cutting near the pivot point. They don't show the person leaning into the handles, how hard did they try?
And there's no attempts to break the (aluminum?) combo lock.
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It does look good as a secondary lock for the wheels. My Kryptonite
4-foot cable lock is 12 ounces and includes a velcro strap to store it coiled into an oval shape. I use it along with a U-lock. This Ottolock would be lighter, smaller, and be locked separately.
The smallest version would be stronger than the $7
combination coil lock I use when running into a store, just to avoid someone riding off on my bike.
That video is hilarious. I don't know if anyone could "half ass" it more than that guy did. Watching the video, I'm almost 100% sure I could cut it with a pair of heavy duty scissors. Even dikes if used correctly.
And bolt cutters often DON'T have blades that come all of the way together (the bolt often snaps before that) so how the heck was that expected to work? At least try it in the other orientation or folded.
With that said, I noticed the 'samples' he was using were very well cut with nice edges. I wonder how they cut those.
I bet it was a pair of metal shears/aviation snips.
Also, if this thing is made with pieces of flat metal on the inside, I wonder if taking advantage of metal fatigue would make it easier to break (aka fold it back and forth a few times.)