Yet still their are no mass reports of Sold Secure Gold and ART Foundation Four Star rated chains being defeated in the real world. Why is that if it is as easy as you claim to defeat them? Perhaps it's not as easy as you think.

BTW, having seen the TV show in question, it's a bunch of CCTV and hidden camera footage of real life bike thieves stealing bikes locked with cable locks using tiny cutters hidden in small backpacks and bags. Also featured is someone breaking chain locks with massive 42" (over a meter long!) bolt cutters which, it seems, bicycle thieves don't use in the real world, although strangely the people using them on the TV were oddly enthused to let everyone know the name, model, and size of the bolt cutters. Sold Secure was also featured using small, common hand tools like the ones real life bike thieves use to defeat all manor of cable locks, including armored ones.

What I gathered from the show was that real life thieves target easy to defeat locks with small, portable hand tools easily concealed in a small backpack or such.

We all love riding and wish for our bikes to remain ours, but we shouldn't let paranoia stop us from enjoying what we love. A little common sense and an investment in a high end, Sold Secure Gold AND ART Foundation Gold Four Star rated lock should be enough to keep our rides safe.