The un-nickable bike?

[classic33]

Even with the strongest lock available, there's always a possibility that a thief could steal your bike.

But if you ride VanMoof's SmartBike, you may no longer need to worry about that.

Available for preorders starting May 31, the new $1,100 bike has an embedded GPS tracker that lets an owner monitor where it is at all times, VanMoof's CEO, Taco Carlier, tells Tech Insider. If the SmartBike gets stolen, the Brooklyn-based company will replace it — free of charge.

The bike syncs with VanMoof's smartphone app using Bluetooth technology. To lock the SmartBike, riders just need to tap "lock" on the app, and its automatic chain will do the rest.

If someone disables or breaks the lock without using the app, the user will receive a notification. In that case, VanMoof will track the bike's location using the integrated GPS. The owner won't be able to see exactly where their bike has been taken, though, because the company doesn't want SmartBike riders to track down thieves themselves. Instead, Carlier says the company will work with the police to recover stolen bikes.

"We don't believe it is safe or fair for our riders to have to do this themselves," he says.

Carlier hopes that the SmartBike will ease urban commuters' worries about investing in a nicer bike, and eliminate the need to settle for a $100 clunker.


http://www.techinsider.io/this-vanmoof-smartbike-is-impossible-to-steal-2016-5

 

[ColinJ]

It's not so much 'un-nickable' as 'catch the toerags who nicked it'!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm not sure I would want to nick that bike. That top tube is hideous.

 

[slowmotion]

Who would want to nick a bike that looks like an angular D-lock?

 

[classic33]

I'm not sure I would want to nick that bike. That top tube is hideous.

That's houses the electrics, lights front & rear built in.

 

[slowmotion]

That's houses the electrics, lights front & rear built in.

The battery compartment cover will go tits up. They all do, don't they?

 

[EnPassant]

Have to admit I thought it was a picture gag at first where the bike is actually made up from an oversized lock....turns out I was wrong (yeah yeah, I know it's not unusual).

Still, maybe it's at least semi-intentional, if the scrotes get to know that's what the tracked ones look like and just avoid them (though looking like that they'll probably figure the resale is zero anyway), it's less effort for the makers actually tracking many to keep the promise made in the sales bumf.

 

[classic33]

The battery compartment cover will go tits up. They all do, don't they?

Supposed to be sealed rechargable batteries

 

[slowmotion]

Supposed to be sealed rechargable batteries

"Supposed" ??????
Ask the punters two years after they have bought this daft thing.

 

[classic33]

"Supposed" ??????
Ask the punters two years after they have bought this daft thing.

The same sort as used in electric bikes. But what's to stop anyone changing them?

 

[classic33]

"Supposed" ??????
Ask the punters two years after they have bought this daft thing.

The same sort as used in electric bikes. But what's to stop anyone changing them?

 

[slowmotion]

The same sort as used in electric bikes. But what's to stop anyone changing them?

Probably the crappy battery compartment cover that breaks off and lets in water despite the best efforts by the owner with parcel/duct/ elastoplast/chewing gum....

 

[classic33]

Probably the crappy battery compartment cover that breaks off and lets in water despite the best efforts by the owner with parcel/duct/ elastoplast/chewing gum....

That'd be the frame gone though.

 

[slowmotion]

That'd be the frame gone though.

It's just the weakest spot. I've been sailing with people who won't install a heads (WC) because they realise that sticking a hole through the hull of their boat is a recipe for disaster. " Bucket and chuck it", or don't come aboard.

 

[Bollo]

Do they do it in matt black?