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  • This is the lock picking lawyer, and what I have for you today is the undisputed heavyweight champion of folding bike locks.

  • It's the Avis Bordeaux X plus 6500.

  • APIs rates this 15 out of 15 on its bicycle security scale, which I think is a little bit generous.

  • I dug through my lock graveyard and found the remains of one eye destructively tested a while ago.

  • And while it is pretty tough, I found the joints were vulnerable to a nut splitter attack in video 6 16 and during off camera experiments, I was able to cut through it with my 18 inch hydraulic cutters.

  • That's not to say this doesn't pack a lot of security into a small package.

  • I just don't think it's quite up to the standards of a high end you lock.

  • But one area in which this is certainly ahead of the curve is the core.

  • It uses the Avis X Plus score, which is among the better ones currently found in bike locks.

  • It's a disc detainer design with seven or eight disks with full skates as well as a disc locking system.

  • I featured lots with the X plus score in the past.

  • But let's see what it takes to pick into this one to make it a little bit easier to get to that core going to pull this rubber off.

  • No issues doing that even while it's locked.

  • And the first thing we'll need to do is rotate all of those disks.

  • As far clockwise is, they will go.

  • And because we do have that disk locking system in there, when I insert this tool, I'm going to give it a good shake to hit those locking tabs in the back.

  • There we go.

  • I have all those disks where I want them.

  • So I'm going to get the pick that Bosnian Bill and I made.

  • Insert it.

  • So we get disc number one.

  • Okay, Now that I have one, I'm going to go to the back of the lock.

  • These X plus scores tend to bind from the back.

  • Okay?

  • Nothing on seven.

  • A little quick out of six.

  • Nothing.

  • On 54 Click out of three.

  • Nothing on two.

  • Back to the beginning.

  • Nothing on seven.

  • Nothing on six.

  • Five.

  • Seems like it's in a true gate.

  • Okay, four is binding to feel I'm sorry.

  • Four feels like it's in a gate, Nothing on three.

  • Click out of two back to the beginning.

  • Click out of seven over six.

  • Gotta click there.

  • Still binding.

  • There we go.

  • I think six is in the true.

  • Gate five is in its true gate, so it's four.

  • Three is binding.

  • I think three is in its true gate number two.

  • There we go.

  • We got it open so it didn't take a whole lot of time.

  • But it is a tricky little pick, and I think it provides a fair amount of security, especially given the small package.

  • In any case, that's all I have for you today.

  • If you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below.

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  • And, as always, have a nice day.

This is the lock picking lawyer, and what I have for you today is the undisputed heavyweight champion of folding bike locks.

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