(picking 491) Disassembled: ABUS Tresor Chain Catena Combo 1385 bike lock and showed how it works 

Thanks a lot for the feedback and your endurance in watching all these videos. This lock bothered me for quite a while - glad that I could master it finally.

Thanks - I'm always curious to see how these things work ;-)

Thank you - that was also interesting to explore for me :-) And no piece left and everything working still very nicely.

Thank you very much - yes, very refreshing to see a well thought out construction.

Oh wow, if you still have it, then practice on it - some day you will develop a feeling for it:

Shame on me, I threw it away. ;-) I didn't see any chance and I missed the fun about it, but with your videos I might try a few more combination locks. And when it doesn't work out I will send those locks to you. ;-)

Thank you buddy - yes, a great lock with some engineering knowledge inside. Have a good one :-)

Cheers and thanks for watching - with these little tricks this lock has become really hard to open. Every bike lock should be built like this. Thank you very much for your kind words my friend.

i was also curious to look inside - really like to explore such things - thanks for watching buddy :-)

Thank you - I always like to dig deep into the details :-)

Cheers - was a pleasure for me to inspect it :-)

You're welcome :-)

I don't think that you can reach to the red prongs as they are protected by a lip from the part with with the bolt.

Yes, there is equal spacing between the bumps which makes it very hard to distinguish.

Potti314 If you feel a gate, you can go 4 down, and 4 up, and feel those 2. If up4 also feels like a gate, you were in the true gate. If down4 feels better, it is now the true gate, and the first was the false

I think 4 wheels a sufficient ;-) The option of a brute force attack applies to all type of locks but with this anti-decoding feature a quick attack with the pull-picking method is no longer possible. The outer wheels overlap (see here for one of these wheels ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NqdGfvaud0U.html). So there is no space for a decoding knife.

Ah yes I understand now - thanks. It's a nicely designed lock! Another (beginner) idea - the red dial that can be turned to set a new combination - is that accessible with a knife? (the end does pop out a bit) - so that you can tension *that* to see which wheel binds on that & whether it gives feedback when a gate is reached? Both the false & true gate might give feedback from it, but only if it's accessible by a knife or something thin & flexible? (but I guess it's not accessible).

No, the part with the bolt is a bit hollow so the red dial is kind of burried in there.

Okay I'm ran out of ideas - it's a well designed lock. Thank you once again for going over this lock in such interesting detail.

Haha, thanks buddy. Usually I makes updates less frequently but this was kind of a follow up and I wanted my viewers to have the decoding still in mind when watching this. By the way, I usually keep all the youtube notifications about new videos in a sub-folder of my email - inbox and just watch the video whenever I like.

I know this video and even had a little chat with the guy. But he didn't reply on my query to take his lock apart to see if it has these anti-pull picking features. I watched that video a couple of times and you can see the wheels stuck at the right number - so I believe it's not fake but more likely not the exact same design. But there is another possibility which needs a bit of explanation. The same type of combination lock can change the picking properties (feedback) due to normal wear by usage and weather or wear by decoding. I've experienced this several times and also heard that from others. This can make the lock more or less difficult. For this particular lock there was a time where I could decode it reliably in about 5 minutes in the hand. But then suddenly it stopped playing nicely and the feedback was gone. So maybe the lock in the other video had a state where decoding was less troublesome and also the tension seemed to be just right. So it might be the same design but due to specific wear a bit easier to decode. Hope this makes sense for you.

You must be a master decoder - congratulations.

Thanks for the kind offer but I'm very busy at the moment to work on my backlog.

@@Potti314 When you are not very busy, you can contact me to confirm the product and place an order, I will give it to you for free. thanks