Despite the soaring popularity of electric bikes in a rapidly growing market, where high-end models are becoming increasingly expensive, these bikes are not immune to theft. Even with conventional anti-theft measures such as key or code systems, it is not uncommon for these security measures to be rendered useless in less than a minute when attacked by a specialist.
In the UK alone, a staggering 250,000 bicycles are stolen each year, which means that one bike gets snatched every two minutes. The prevalence of bike theft in the country is a growing concern for bike owners, and the statistics highlight the need for better security measures to safeguard against such incidents. Even though modern e-bikes come with anti-theft devices, reports suggest that only two percent of stolen bikes and e-bikes are returned by the police. What happens to the remaining 98 percent? Well, a lot of them are sold online through classifieds, or more probably, taken apart and sold for their parts.
