A Northwest Portland bike shop has seen four break-ins in less than a year….…more than 80% of Portland restaurant owners that participated in the survey said their businesses had been broken into, and 90% of that group said the break-ins happened in the past year.…Portland police said in a statement…their current resources force them to […]
It’s thought 80 per cent of all UK bike thefts occur in London – a figure estimated to be 20,000 a year, although the true number could be four or even five times that. … Bike registration schemes sound like a good idea, but the benefits are slim – after all, cars are identifiable by […]
This detailed article on bike theft in the Vancouver area exhibits a Project 529 infographic: There seems to be a bit of a mathematical error in there: If 2 million bikes are stolen annually, and the police recover 100,000, then 5% are recovered, whereas the infographic states that 5% are “returned to owners”. Well, the […]
No bicycle lock is safe, I said yesterday. It’s a mere finger when the dyke itself needs reconstruction. A pitiful dearth of safe cycling routes, in most of North America, is the oldest, and most obvious, of the systemic disregards for micro-mobility. Similar neglect is seen in other aspects of cycling on this continent. There […]
Of the innumerable videos out there, showing the blight of bike theft, this is a rather comprehensive one, in showing all the major attacks on assorted defences sold in your local bike shop. The good people at the City of London Police have kindly arranged a demonstration of assorted cable cutter, bolt cutter and angle […]
