The Hands Off My Bike Challenge

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    Gkam84

    So I know there are some designers here, get your thinking caps on, head over here and if you win, I want a cut for the referral 👿 👿 👿

    [quote]Bikes have always been targets for thieves. Cyclists are more likely to have their bikes stolen than motorcyclists or car owners. Last year over 500,000 bikes were stolen in the UK (one each minute), with a recovery rate of under 5 per cent. It has been estimated that of the 17 per cent of cyclists that experience bicycle theft, 66 per cent cycle less often and 24 per cent stop altogether.

    The Hands Off My Bike Challenge Prize is calling on people from all over the UK to come up with breakthrough innovations to make it more difficult to steal bikes and have the potential to increase numbers of people cycling in the UK.

    The winning innovation will be the one that requires the longest time to steal the bike. The innovation will be also judged on the impact on the environment, cost and potential for commercialisation and/or implementation at scale.

    The winner will receive a prize of £50,000.

    Judges may also decide to recognise a runner up innovation or innovations at their discretion.[/quote]

    http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/challengeprizes/cyclingchallenges/assets/features/hands_off_my_bike

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    Mountain goat

    Internal bike parking is the
    Internal bike parking is the simple solution to this. Whilst bikes are locked up on the street, no lock, however strong, will ever be good enough.

    Nesta’s competition is firing in the wrong direction. Do you really think that companies like Kryptonite are not already ploughing millions into R and D?

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    dave atkinson

    nesta wrote:The winning

    nesta wrote:
    The winning innovation will be the one that requires the longest time to steal the bike

    my idea’s just to encase the bike in metre-thick concrete. if time to steal is the only criterion for winning, i’m in with a good shout i reckon

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    notfastenough

    Poo on the handlebars.
    Poo on the handlebars.

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