Undercover footage has revealed how long it takes for a bike to be stolen in Dublin.
Last night's RTE Prime Time showed how a bike on one of Dublin's busiest streets was targeted within 40 minutes of being locked up. The RTE team locked a brand new electric bike on the corner of Parnell Street and King’s Inn Street.
The bike, while not top-of-the-range, was secured to a Sheffield bike stand, recognised as the highest standard of public bike-locking infrastructure, with the simple cable lock, in the full knowledge that the bike was less secure but less likely to be damaged in an attempted theft. In just 40 minutes, a gang tried to rip the bike off the stand.
