What is the best way to protect your eBike from theft...

[fitek]

I like the alarm option. True, a serious thief will not be deterred by anything, but you also have to ask yourself where you are parking. Parking in front of the grocery store, it's going to be much harder to use liquid nitrogen on the lock than when the bike is parked outside of the apartment building overnight. I've had several bikes stolen but they were all secured with cheap locks.

Rather than immobilize the bike, how about the other way around? If I were a bike thief I'd sure wonder what to do if the bike I was trying to carry off or ride away on was suddenly stuck with the throttle wide open. You've thrown it in the truck and now its doing a burnout and the alarm is wailing, or you've broken the lock and decided to make a low key getaway, and not only is the siren blaring but the bike is tearing off down the road. I'd probably drop it and try to walk away...

 

[kbarrett]

Dissassemble a stun-gun.

Hook the leads up to metal rivets in the seat.

Add a weight activated switch and a hidden arm/disarm switch.

 

[Link]

Much as I love the stun gun idea, you'd probably get your ass sued off. Friggin' whatever...

Alternatively, put it in the bike seat. More powerful ones (100kV+) will go right through even thick jeans 8).

 

[kbarrett]

"Stun Gun? That isn't a stun gun. It's an aux. motor controller. Sorry I didn't wire it up right."

I wonder how many volts they use? If you completely disassemble it, you could hide the whole thing inside the seat lining and run it off of your battery pack.

 

[Link]

I wonder how many volts they use? If you completely disassemble it, you could hide the whole thing inside the seat lining and run it off of your battery pack.

I think most use a 9V, since it doesn't have to multiply the voltage so much. Depending on the nature of the voltage boost, using a 12V source may also result in a 33% increase in output voltage 8).

 

[SF1901]

Set the thief up and let him steal your bike. Then you pepper spray, stun him, and then kick em' in his private parts. You'll probably make front page in the newspaper. The bike coalition and the cops will commend you. With that type of media, you'll probably have all the thieves be afraid to steal a bike. Bike theft will drop significantly. Well, that's what I would do. Just a thought....

 

[ngocthach1130]

Crap i live in NJ. Anything that end in gun is a big no no around here. Can't even have those thing shipped here. Sound like a great idea though. One problem i find is that if you stick the electrode into the seat, then it would be uncomfortable when you hit pot hole. Getting jab in the ass is painful with or without a few hundred thousand volts. For those who cannot buy stun gun in your state, hackaday.com have some post on using disposable camera unit to make stun gun. Won't be as powerful as the real thing, but might give enough of a jolt as a deterrent.

 

[Bill Best]

Is anyone here using a live GPS tracking solution on their bike?

I've been looking into Mologogo, but I need to find a cheap way of running it here in Canada. You can't beat $18 for 3 months of monitoring with Boost Mobile.

 

[Bill Best]

I just noticed that there is a forward/reverse key switch on the Crystalyte controller.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to leave it in the reverse position so that anyone trying to steal your bike can't use the motor? I wonder how good these switches are; ie how many times your could switch positions before the switch wore out.

 

[lookingelectric]

Unfortunately, the answer is a $100 lock.

The Kryptonite Fahgettaboutit lock
http://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-Fahgettaboudit-Chain-Disc-720018730/dp/B000GRS1YE/ref=pd_bbs_5?ie=UTF8&s=automotive&qid=1206370323&sr=8-5
_will_ keep a determined thief from taking your bike unless they have a pretty good power grinder and 8 minutes to spend grinding away. It also has a $3500 anti-theft guarantee.

I have one and it'll probably last longer than any bike.

 

[Ypedal]

Get one of these !!!

Edit : Quote that came with the picture
Dog For Sale
* Free to good home.
* Excellent guard dog.
* Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, as there are no more thieves, murderers or molesters left in the neighborhood for him to eat.
* Most of them knew him as 'Holy Shit.'

 

[Bill Best]

Yes, of course I'm going to use a lock or two. :lol:

I just thought it would be a great way to screw with someone if they tried to motor away with your eBike.

..BTW, that dog is RIDICULOUS!! I wonder if he would even fit in a kids trailer?

 

[cerewa]

how bout a paint grenade.... that's been what I wanted to have as bike security for a while. NOt quite sure how to implement it though.

I'm not sure whether covering your thief in bright paint would stop them, but it might.

 

[D-Man]

Remember those plastic vinyl things you could buy in the shape of like Dog crap, or Barf on the ground. They looked pretty real. You could just lay one of those on your seat.

 

[Mathurin]

http://www.dominicwilcox.com/stickers.html

 

[HAL9000v2.0]

I have this system. On the back of the frame I have 2 XLR plugs that is normaly used fo recharging. But on the free terminals + and - form the controler is also connected (inside is no connection between controller and batt). So if you want to use the bike you must have matching male plugs that have all the pins wired exactly as on the bike (they are randomly coosed). If somebody try to conect it wrong, one of 3 automatic fuses with sidemounted NO contact is off and this contact connect one of 12V batt over current limiter directly on one pole of hub motor. And the motor is blocked. Same hapened when some one move the bike, via 2 g-sensors. Bike is almost 40kg so nobody will carry it. For now this is working fine. I have found it two times "blocked". I do not recomend XLR plugs for more than 20amp controler.

 

[Bill Best]

Wow HAL9000.. that is a sweet setup! I'm running 2 36V packs in series, but I'd love to easily switch between series and parallel depending on the riding I'm doing.

You guys make me sick with your slick custom battery boxes! :wink:

 

[Lock]

I believe we'll try an alarm system w/GPS tracking for my next scoot... So no need for a lock or anything to lock to.

BTW, another source for potassium nitrate is tree stump remover (usually about 98% KNO3) The KNO3+sugar thingee produces 600x the volume of the original material as fairly harmless smoke. But it does burn hot w/flame so needs a metal canister that vents to the outside...

Re electric shocks... Ya don't need to disassemble a Tazer... I have bought surplus camera flash units... basically just a capacitor etc on a tiny PCB w/button battery. Man, when you charge one up and accidently discharge it through your skin it definitely gets your attention - ask me how I know <grin> And of course when "on" and discharged, the unit immediately recharges itself for the next "flash"...

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