Originally Posted by
chaadster
E-bike manufacturers should be integrating anti-theft systems, since they can, electronically, make a bike unridable when an alarm is triggered. DelFast e-bikes have an excellent alarm system and disabler; adding a Lo-Jack type GPS tracker would be easy and might be nice, but personally, I wouldn’t bother. The bike is heavy enough that the odds of anyone picking it up and loading it in a van (while it’s screaming at 120db) is awfully low.
Knog have an aftermarket bicycle alarm system called Scout, that, while not e-bike specific, not only integrates Apple Find My tracking with a motion alarm, it also sends an alert to the owner’s iPhone app when in Bluetooth range. That’s pretty perfect for my typical scenarios, like a quick cafe stop or end-of-ride biergarten hang.
I really like the idea of deterring a theft a lot more than tracking one.
Right, and this guy just made an impressive video about how he hacked a bike share bike to work. The company had gone out of business, so there was no documentation. The bike absolutely would not work at all until he hacked it.