Bike theft prevention for cyclists
An overview to avoid your bike being stolen
Protect your bike and prevent bike theft.
Bike theft is both a problem for individual bike owners, but also for society. The links in the text below lead you to specific pages on bike theft.
How to protect your bike
There are a solutions to reduce the risk that your bike will be stolen:
Use a quality lock and apply smart locking techniques. Registering your bike reduces the likelihood of theft by 10%. Thieves prefer to steal unregistered bikes which they can sell more easily. Use secure bike parking facilities or fix your bike to something solid. This applies also to your home, about half of all bike stolen are not stolen from the street but inside a house or garage. You can also ask your employer, landlord, shopping mall or school to provide better bike parking.
A GPS tracker or AirTag does not necessarily prevent theft, but it can facilitate recovery. Also bike theft insurances do not help much against theft, but they cover a large part of the financial risk.
Reduce bike theft, everywhere.
In addition to protecting your own bike, you could also contribute to reducing bike theft in general. We make that as easy as possible, it will only take five minutes:
Be sure to not buy a stolen bike. Encourage your city, employer or landlord to provide better bike parking solutions. A new EU Bike Parking Directive requires substantially better parking already for 2027 in many buildings. Most cyclists associations also work on bike theft prevention, so maybe join and support your local or national cyclist association? You can also learn about bike theft statistics and read bike theft articles.
Cities, regions and your national government can be encouraged to adopt and implement a comprehensive bike policy, which also includes bike theft.
AI Prompts for Cyclists.
It just take three minutes to write and send a message to your employer/city/landlord with our prepared AI-prompts. Please click on your preferred AI-tool and learn/discuss how to address bike theft.
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Bike Parking matters.
Without enough secure bike parking, pupils, parents and staff are more likely to come by car.
We have curated a list of suppliers and solutions for bike parking.
