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0k. sometimes when bikes are stolen, they get squirrelled away in the alleyways. we've scoured the area and there are too many houses about for us to narrow it down specifically enough for us to find the bike. that didn't go exactly to plan. for a bike which costs just under £2000, that's a little disappointing. but there's been a development. the latest models of vanmoof are now compatible with apple's find my app. with apple's network of millions and millions of devices, the location tracking could get a whole lot more accurate. after trying out all of this tech, i wanted to find out what t...

Over the past year, there has been a cycling boom, with shops struggling to keep up with the sheer scale of demand. but at the same time, there has been a steady flow of bike crime. last year, there were more than 80,000 incidents of bike theft, and many, many thousands more going unreported. like many people living in a big city, i often leave my poor bike left locked up outside, fending for itself. and unfortunately, over the last 12 months, it's received a lot of unwanted attention. it all looks normal except, oh, where are my handlebars? there's the brake cable snipped. so, my personal woe...

You might imagine that cycling would be the next best way to get around. but the bike sharing trend that's been massive all over the world in big cities like paris and rio, it hasn't really caught on africa's biggest cities. in the entirety of kenya there's only been one that has been opened — i guess i should say, was opened. nairobi's sole scheme is here, on a university campus. it began a couple of years ago as an experiment to see if bike sharing could work in africa. that's a shame. but it's all been locked away since the pandemic began. so, it seems like it's been a while since these b...

The bike, it should give you... alarm beeps. ..a rather loud warning. and, like the kinoee, the more you mess with it, the louder the warning gets until, eventually, this goes into a theft mode, and that's where things get really interesting because they provide a peace of mind service. peace of mind service is, if your bike should get stolen and we can't find it in two weeks of getting stolen, you will get a new bicycle provided by vanmoof. after trying out all this tech, i wanted to find out what the professionals think. i love technology, and anything that i think will help us stop crime is...

Been a cycling boom, with shops struggling to keep up with the sheer scale of demand. but at the same time, there has been a steady flow of bike crime. last year, there were more than 80,000 incidents of bike theft, and many, many thousands more going unreported. like many people living in a big city, i often leave my poor bike left locked up outside, fending for itself. and unfortunately, over the last 12 months, it's received a lot of unwanted attention. all looks normal except, oh, where are the handlebars? there's the brake cable snipped. so, my personal woes got me thinking — what piece...