no, YOU are buying an expensive product more than they are selling it. like anything else you buy, take care of it. talking about cars, look how effective alarms are: how often have you seen anyone react to a car alarm going off ? yours is a typical liberal slant to make this about abdicating one's own responsibilities to others (like the federal government), in this case, bike makers.

Actually in quite a few places in Europe, bikes come ready equipped with lights, racks, locks and fenders, as people regularly commute and use bikes just like Americans use cars. In fact such bikes were quite the norm in Finland, and finding a "stripped bike" like that typically seen in America was a "special order."

So it's not as if such things don't have a market... it is more like America just isn't the market for them. (or at least so we've been told... )

Here are some pics from a bike shop in Oulu.




BTW the last shot is a just a bunch of local bikes parked at one of the many racks about town.

Do you speak Finnish?

Sähköpyörät 2018 - Tunturi Do take note of the lock, rack and fenders.

This is a particularly nice model...
TUNTURI ZONAR naisten malli - Tunturi

Agree, but we are talking about the (North) American market, presumably? We are not talking about Finland, or Copenhagen. Here, there does not appear to be a demand for such appliances. If and when there is, I've no doubt at all some mfg will pop up to fill that demand. Mr. Bill pointed out one such mfg in his area (Boston).

Here, the bicycle as a 'sporting' item appears to be the norm, and that fact consequently influences the vast majority of sales in and production for the NA market. Just the way it is; neither 'right' nor 'wrong'.

I certainly fall into that marketing demographic. I do not need, and I most certainly do not want, a bicycle festooned with fenders, locking and other security devices whether mechanical or electronic, and so on from the shop floor. I assume my attitude is representative of the vast majority of NA bicycle purchasers, for good or ill, and that consequently Brinks-truck type bicycles will be a best a niche market here, at least in the foreseeable future.

The lack of demand (discounting Mr Bill's provided info) is largely due to the "bike as toy" mentality maintained in the US by bike manufactures and others.

There is another brand of bike in the US that is quite suitable for commuting and daily riding... called the Workman Bicycles. https://www.worksmancycles.com/?u=ht...=224423029328#

Not exactly a brand with built in locks per se, but certainly not geared for the typical "bike as toy" market... these are largely industrial bikes for use on large campuses and work sites as transportation... yup, bikes can be used as transportation and work, and this company knows that... even here in America.

I have to laugh at your Buick comment... After years of commuting on various "racer bikes," I had a custom bike built... as my "commuter truck." Front and rear racks, lighting (which changed over the years) and upright style, for visibility.

This was in the '80s... before mountain biking became hugely popular. I literally rode "everywhere" on that bike.



I mean "everywhere."



Yet, no built in lock. Go figure. I just used U-locks.

I have to say, many bikes have built in bottle cage mounts, and built-in pump pegs.

Some bike racks have provisions for carrying locks, but it would be easy enough to add a secure place to carry a U-Lock, say on the rear triangle of the bike.

This might make sense for a bike being designed and marketed purely as a commuter bike. Perhaps with a built-in rack.

Then again, would the panniers go over the top of the lock, so they would have to be removed to get to the lock? What about different lock sizes and models?

However, in the USA, bicycle needs are extremely diverse. Some people commute on road bikes, others commute on single speeds, some on mountain bikes, some on carbon, some on steel, some on aluminum.

I frequently carry my lock in my backpack,, but you can bet, if I don't plan to stop, the lock stays home.

A couple of my bikes have no eyelets (too much extra weight), so should one expect them to have a lock carrier?

Anyway, all this is possible, and some are working on it, but it really only applies to dedicated commuter bikes which is only a small portion of the market.

Including too many LBSs.



"Bicycle Belle was founded on the idea that bicycles are often the best way to get around the city. There are many bike shops out there, but most sell bikes for recreation that aren’t suitable for short urban trips.

We run things a little differently."

-mr. bill

I would love to see carbon frames, forks, and maybe even some components--stems, crank arms, for instance, have a scannable chip molded in. This could serve multiple purposes, a VIN equivalent for registration and tracking of stolen bikes plus date coding for warranty coverage, and give manufacturers an ability to verify genuine goods vs. counterfeit--a real situation in high end bikes and parts these days. Thought of it when I was sitting with one of our cats in my lap and realized that I could feel the chip under the skin on his neck and figured it couldn't add enough weight to a bike to notice even if one bike had half a dozen of them.