Bike Theft Concerns

you might want to look up bike theft statistics :)

You just leave them in the streets when you're done riding? How can you prevent theft?

We have bike sharing in Paris. The first year bike thefts were high. But these bikes are distinctive, heavy, and custom. Once the knucklehead thieves realized these bikes were worthless public bike thefts went down.

Is it really so binary? Locked bikes don't get stolen?

bicycles are great, as long as no one steals them once you get to your destination

Seems like a great way to loose a lot of bikes.

I wonder who's stealing the bikes? Maybe that's worth looking into, see if there are any patterns?

Bike sharing services already use trackers, and even those get stolen.

In a society where bike use is much more common, the risk to have a bike stolen is diminished by diffusing it among a higher number of bike users. Also, bike locks are a thing. Larger train stations also sometimes have dedicated bike storage facilities with CCTV and security personnel, which makes that threat even less likely. Also, bike insurances are a thing and they don't cost that much. Certainly much much less than the cost for a car insurance. (And that's before you take into acc

Another huge problem with bikes is that in my city your bike is basically public property. At any moment in time someone could just take it with no repercussions. No amount of locks it chains seems to be effective. So you don’t want to invest a lot of money into having one properly outfitted unless you have some place secure to store it on both ends