I received one of these as a free accesory to a bike item I purchased and was happy with it, so when I saw this I was happy to grab more. I'm very glad these turned out to be identical. They are a very useful length, and the tri-stand build really helps secure things better than a traditional singlestrand cord would be able to.The only real improvements I could hope for would be metal ends instead of plastic, and preferably and enclosed hook. When the build has an open hook like this we have to worry about cargo shifting and providing slack allowing the hook to release and de-stabilize everything potentially leading to bike crashes. This did indeed happen with one of these but luckily nothing from cargo/bike/rider was damaged as a result. That time. That was part of the reason for grabbing these extras. My hope is that by using multiple it will lower the chances of that scenario being repeated since there will be more than 2 anchor points.