Chinese E-Locker

Those videos reminded me of some of the things I did in my younger days. I may still come a little bit close but really no longer up to doing anything quite that extreme these days.

Although I did get to a construction site close by, I haven't been able to get back to the mountains in an attempt to get one rear wheel off the ground. I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by the engagement of the locker. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, e-lockers have a reputation of a delayed engagement and then a temporary disengagement when you stop forward progress and begin to reverse. In my experience it seemed as though the locking was nearly immediate and I didn't notice any disengagement when I stopped and put it in reverse (uphill in gravel).

I'm tied up now with having my Fox shocks installed but hope to hit the trails shortly afterward.

Any further news on this Bob?

With the wet season (I hate mud) I haven't had much opportunity to go out. I can say that on several short occasions, it has operated flawlessly. I was able to briefly get onto some trails during the last couple of months when we were visiting the area where we purchased some property. Unfortunately, I didn't have much time as the main purpose of those trips was to handle property issues. With the dry season just starting I was planning on spending more time on the trails so that I could post an update again. Admittedly, even if everything works out, I will only be able to give short term reviews. Without any real history on these lockers, long term durability will be - well - a long time coming.

My biggest uncertainty about getting to the mountains now is that the government is talking about a lockdown of Metro Manila due to the coronavirus. If that happens, I won't be able to get into the mountains.

I will add one "editorial" comment. If I were purchasing an e-locker again, I would probably choose the TRE. After I learned that TRE was also now producing an e-locker, I attempted to do some research to determine if they met the testing results that TRE airlockers did. I wasn't able to find any e-locker info but their airlockers are supposed to be tested to a torque as high as ARB without failure. Although it wasn't a driver for me, they also have the benefit of being cheaper.