I owned this electric bike for more than 2 years. It was stolen from my garage a couple of days (nights?) ago - that's 28 Oct 2014.
It was chained, although nothing fancy, steel cable with key. The garage door is also not great safety, one of those common steel up-and-over, thinking about investing in changing the doors.
Unfortunately the battery was also there, I usually take it in every night for charging, this time was a short trip and left on the bike. And it was there for a while since bad whether made me use the bike less. That probably made the difference for risking it.
The bike key (power-on) was not there, so they presumably wouldn't be able to use it with power straight away (or at all, no one in their right mind would use a 20 kg bike as a push bike), so I expect somebody in the "distribution" chain will attempt at some point to replace the keys / perhaps the whole lock?
I wrote to Powacycle and ask if they would assist with revealing any requests to replace keys for this particular bike (I offered to give serial numbers, including the battery one), waiting for an answer.
What do you pedelecs think about the replacing key issue? I thought making it harder for thief to replace the keys would be a good disincentive to steal it in the first place / dump it somewhere as useless after.
Regards,
Adrian
PS. I was considering uploading a photo, but I guess those Powacycles are so common that one can google Powacycle Prague and it looks just like that.
It was chained, although nothing fancy, steel cable with key. The garage door is also not great safety, one of those common steel up-and-over, thinking about investing in changing the doors.
Unfortunately the battery was also there, I usually take it in every night for charging, this time was a short trip and left on the bike. And it was there for a while since bad whether made me use the bike less. That probably made the difference for risking it.
The bike key (power-on) was not there, so they presumably wouldn't be able to use it with power straight away (or at all, no one in their right mind would use a 20 kg bike as a push bike), so I expect somebody in the "distribution" chain will attempt at some point to replace the keys / perhaps the whole lock?
I wrote to Powacycle and ask if they would assist with revealing any requests to replace keys for this particular bike (I offered to give serial numbers, including the battery one), waiting for an answer.
What do you pedelecs think about the replacing key issue? I thought making it harder for thief to replace the keys would be a good disincentive to steal it in the first place / dump it somewhere as useless after.
Regards,
Adrian
PS. I was considering uploading a photo, but I guess those Powacycles are so common that one can google Powacycle Prague and it looks just like that.
