Some super bling electric bikes should not be left tied up and abandoned, no matter how secure. He is lucky this time.
Still, even with the locked rear wheel and Thief! sign blinking, someone could say, “I’m the owner, I just forgot the code to reset’, as with car alarms that go off shrieking in the middle of the night.
“Still, even with the locked rear wheel and Thief! sign blinking, someone could say, “I’m the owner, I just forgot the code to reset’, as with car alarms that go off shrieking in the middle of the night.”
True, but that certainly gives the police probable cause to detain someone until they can establish the ownership for certain (if the police care to bother).
No, this is a good system.
And it doesn’t have to be a super expensive bike. When I was a kid in NYC, I saved up my dog-walking money to buy a modest basic bike, what we called an “English” bike (narrow tires), locked it to the post outside the branch library...and the kids from the projects (who couldn’t be bothered to walk dogs, clean stoops, etc. to earn their own money to buy something) had stolen it by the time I came out 15 minutes later.
I wish I had had one of these devices! In fact, I wish I had had a laser device that would have blasted those idiots into some common sense. I’m sure a few years later they were all in jail or dead, but that’s not an ideal outcome.