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 anything that i think will help us stop crime is 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
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 sensor alarm system. this is the kinoee, and it s a fairly simple device. you attach it to your saddle post using cable ties, then set the alarm using a handy remote control.
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. 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
and given that the light railway only serves a limited number of destinations, 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 bikes have seen the light of day. yeah, it s now almost a year now cos after covid everything was at a dead stop. so why do you think africans have been a bit slow to adopt bicycle as a mode of transportation? there are a number of reasons
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 bikes have seen the light of day. yeah, it? s now almost a year now cause after covid everything was at a dead stop. so why do you think africans have been a bit slow to adopt bicycle as a mode of transportation? there are a number of reasons why the adoption of cycling has been a bit low. but in rural areas bicycles,