The video is "faked", or the lock in question is a very poor quality lock. The editors of "Cycling Plus" and the locksmiths at "Soldsecure" have tested the best bike locks on the market against the tools known to be used by REAL crooks out on the streets of cities such as New York, Toronto, and London. The results are consistent: a "gold" rated lock such as the Kryptonite New York u-lock can NOT be opened during a ten minute test using portable tools.
In fact, not only did the "gold" rated u-locks survive a ten minute assault using portable tools, most of them showed little or no damage when assaulted by the tools crooks actually use in the real world.
So, any video that shows a lock be opened easily has been faked, or the lock is NOT a "gold" rated lock. I've talked with the bike messengers working in downtown Houston, the bike police who work in downtown Houston, the campus police at Houston colleges and universities (the only police forces who actually take bike theft seriously, and do detailed reports and investigations of bike thefts). None of them have seen a documented, proven case of a bike being stolen that was verified to have been CORRECTLY locked using a "gold" rated u-lock.
In one of the most crime ridden cities in the world, the reports are consistent: real world crooks target the bikes that can be stolen less than one or two minutes using portable, silent tools that can be concealed in a pocket, or in a messenger bag. They target cable locks, and chain locks and u-locks made by "fake" lock companies such as Master lock. They do NOT target a bike that is correctly locked up with a "gold" rated u-lock. In the ten, twenty, or thirty minutes it would take to break a "gold" rated lock, they could steal five, ten, or fifteen bikes locked with cable locks, and cheapo u-locks and cheapo chain locks.
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