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San Jose police uncover fencing operation, seize $100K worth of stolen bikes KTVU's Ann Rubin reports. SAN JOSE, Calif. - A six-month-long investigation in San Jose led to the arrest of a key figure in a bicycle theft ring. The San Jose Police Department launched "Operation Flat Tire" in response to a spike in theft and crime during the pandemic. Authorities said the operation closed in on Jose Guadalupe Barba, the head of an underground bicycle fencing ring in San Jose. Officers served a search warrant at Barba's home where they recovered $100,000 worth of stolen bikes, construction tools, a...

Pandemic caused increased bike demand, increase in thefts and last updated 2021-04-09 11:47:37-04 The pandemic caused bike sales to go up as people looked for ways to exercise outside. But bike thefts went up, too. “Bike sales, through the roof. If we had more bikes, we could have sold so many more bikes in the past year,” said Christine Ford, General Manager at Elevation Cycles. “50% of the bikes, if not 70% of bikes, today I’m selling off a backorder list and people are waiting for their bikes.” She’s having trouble keeping products on the shelves, and getting ...

Dan Henry, D.C. resident, out for a ride on his mountain bike. His bike was stolen from his home a few weeks ago. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth Abrams mainly cycled for fun, but when she moved to Washington, D.C., a fairly bikeable city, in 2020, her motivations for biking became much more practical. Abrams did not want to take public transportation during the pandemic, and therefore, relied on her bicycle as the main form of transportation. But months later, her bike got stolen from her back patio in Petworth, a neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of the city.

Home/News from NPR/Bike Thieves Are On A Roll During The Pandemic. Here’s How To Protect Your Ride Bike Thieves Are On A Roll During The Pandemic. Here’s How To Protect Your Ride By Hadia Bakkar  April 2, 2021 Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth Abrams mainly cycled for fun, but when she moved to Washington, D.C., a fairly bikeable city, in 2020, her motivations for biking became much more practical. Abrams did not want to take public transportation during the pandemic, and therefore, relied on her bicycle as the main form of transportation. But months later, her bike got stolen f...

Oonee Wants to Fix New York Bike Parking with Free, Secure Storage Pods By Ira Boudway | February 11, 2021 On a typical weekday before the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of commuters passed through the Journal Square train station in Jersey City on their way to and from New York City. The station is one of the busiest on the Port Authority Trans-Hudson, or PATH, train line that runs under the river between New York and New Jersey. Last spring, during the height of the lockdown, ridership through Journal Square plummeted to less than 3,000 people pe...