I got my (e)bike stolen

No, I didn't. But I'm I'm curious as to the experience of those who have. If you've had your bike stolen, would you mind telling us a short story about it? What type of bike was it? How long did you park it? Have you owned it for awhile? Was it locked up? What lock did you use? What have you been doing differently since? Was this your first stolen bike?

Please share. Perhaps the rest of us can learn from your experiences. Thanks in advance for your contribution.

My 2WD 2807 Kona Ute was stolen in the backyard of a cellar type pub in the middle of the night during a mighty pub crawl.
I was so stupid. I had been using a cheapo lock and no other safety features on my bike. I've had it for a year and did over 2000 urban miles.

The thieves just cracked the cast lock body open and took the bike away. The police failed miserably to do anything. They even said the camera system wasn't working at that time, so pathetic.

Long story short, I couldn't resist the urge and built the exact same bike again, but I have a MAC upfront instead of 2807. I love the bike. I took my lesson and installed a heavy duty chain lock, pager alarm system and a shorting jumper on the phase wires as a primitive immobilizer feature. I lost my pager remote the other day and bought a GSM pager alarm instead. The FM pager was fun, but its range was fairly short, not even enough for some buildings and unusable for shopping malls.

Had 2-3 pedal bikes stolen from right under me, locked each time. I have however been biking for 11 years..

I'll lock up my intentionally junky pedal bike when riding around short distances but my ebikes are ALWAYS inside a building ( like a grocery store, the bank, etc ), or in my house. There is no way i am losing >$1200 with the snap of a pair of bolt cutters. I've seen how easy it is to steal a bike.. and yeah, there is no damn way i am risking that.

No stolen bike yet. I use a beat up ebike for errands, it's still an expensive setup. I keep the bling stuff off it of it and put stuff like a front basket and grocery pannier, functional fenders and I leave it dirty. It just doesn't have a lot of appeal to it. Bland and unnoticed. I would pedal it if I need to keep a low profile. I use a simple lock due to convenience, but usually park it in high traffic areas. All my other ebikes would get too much attention, and I have a tough time leaving them unattended.

Just like nepromex,
if I cannot roll my ebike inside I never do any business with them.
Local Safeway -no problem, for example.
As a rule every double door entry business is OK where i leave my ebike between doors.
I have 4 bikes never one stolen.
Rule number one - never leave it ouside, bicycle racks are the things of the past when people were honest like 30 years ago.

For you guys who bring them inside of places you visit. Do you lock the bike up once inside the store? I mean in a busy grocery store I doubt it if anyone would notice if someone else other than you grabbed your bike. And by the time they did, that guy would be long gone out the doors. At the very least I would lock the wheel so it would not roll.

Pure said:

For you guys who bring them inside of places you visit. Do you lock the bike up once inside the store? I mean in a busy grocery store I doubt it if anyone would notice if someone else other than you grabbed your bike. And by the time they did, that guy would be long gone out the doors. At the very least I would lock the wheel so it would not roll.

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If we're talking about a big box store and i'm gonna be there for a while, then yes. If not locked to a stationary object, then wheel to frame works.

I tend to shop at the smaller locally owned places though, where all the employees know me as the crazy eBike guy. I don't get any weird looks. Only the typical questions about how fast it goes, etc.

About a year ago, I left my garage open overnight and found my ebike missing in the moring. Batteries were all hooked up too. I looked out on my driveway and there it was lying on it's side. The pedal first controller saved me a pretty huge insurance claim! I guess they couldn't figure out how to start it and they weren't too excited about pedaling around an extra forty pounds of hub motor and ping batteries

some advanced ebikes like EPLUS have motor electric lock up security feature which when turned on make rolling ebike very hard.
There is button on console activating this. Button of course is multi-use you have to hold it seconds to disangage and it is not described on console.
Like my TF I don't leave my E+ for longer than 2 minutes off my eyesight even if inside between doors,always pay at casher closer to my bike.
you forget that any lock up does not secure all your equipment , example bikecomputer , LED light can be slide out off your bike in seconds.

Most of the generic "infineon" type ebike controllers around today have this function built in, it just needs to have the wires to it's pads installed (and sometimes activated by programming).

Disadvantage to it is it uses up your battery power even while idle, and every time someone attempts to move it it uses a lot of power to fight that.

maybe they have that futures Infeon controllers but only in theory, software needs to be upgrated and user would not access to it ofcourse

No, it's not a future possibility, it's already in most of them.

And the user does have access to teh software to do the programming change (for those not already set up to do it)--it's freely available here on ES in a few flavors. No upgrade to the controller itself is required.