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A whole lot more accurate. after trying out all of this tech, i wanted to find out what the professionals think. i love technology, and anything that i think will help us stop crime, it's music to my ears. a lot of companies come to us saying, "oh, we've got this latest product," so we run a bit of an innovation panel so what we will do is look at it, we will provide a bit of advice as to whether it's a viable product — and i invest in some of this stuff myself — but the best crime prevention is i don't lock my bike up, i take it home with me every day. each of these devices have their pro...

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 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 the professi...

If your bike should get stolen and we can't find it within two weeks of getting stolen, you will get a new bicycle provided by vanmoof. as luck would have it, one bike was pinging off pretty nearby. so wejumped on our bikes and set off on the hunt. hopefully we're going to find the nicked vanmoof. it's a bit of a needle in the haystack, i guess. absolutely no joy. 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 to find the bike. that didn't go exactly to plan...

So a little bit like the kinoee, if you move 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 any...

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 the handlebars? there's the brake cable snipped. so, my personal woes got me thinking — what pieces of tech are out there to help keep my bike safe? first up, you have the motion se...