Editing Blog/2025-11-28/A Better Class of Thief (section)

== E-Bike Theft ==

My Radpower Radster is not particularly useful stolen either. You can't really use it unless you're stripping it to parts. And if you're doing that, it's not worth doing it for a $850 bike. But the problem, of course, is that you cannot count on stupid people knowing that.

To avoid the problem of needing to secure a bike, I have relied entirely on Lyft e-bikes in the past. The downside is, of course, that there are no bikes when you need them or that you need to park them where there is no station or there is only a full station, and so on. But lately I've noticed that these are popular in my neighbourhood and I'm frequently failing to get a bike when I want one.

My e-bike needs a key fob or a code to unlock, without which it is just a 20 kg bicycle - not particularly useful in a city full of hills. But the thieves do not know that. So they will probably try to steel it. Consequently I need to carry around an annoying U-lock. Once again we are at the mercy of the idiot.