Survey into residential bicycle theft

I work at the Design Against Crime Research Centre, (part of St Martins School of Art and Design, London) and we are working on a project in association with the Design Council, which attempts to address problems of residential bicycle theft. I know there have been reports in the stolen bikes thread of people having their bikes stolen from inside their home, gardens, etc. So if you have been a victim of bicycle theft from the home, we would value your input into this survey. See below:

Two thirds of all bike thefts are from domestic spaces, including garages, gardens and sheds, and this survey is attempting to determine exactly how people store their bikes in and around the home environment and what, if any, security measures they take to deter thieves.

The survey is being undertaken by Bikeoff and the Design Against Crime Research Centre for the Design Council which wants to try and help bicycle owners to help themselves to keep their bikes secure at home. To do this the Council will launch a design competition to encourage UK businesses to develop secure residential bike storage solutions.

The Design Council will fund development of the best ideas and help to get the designs into the market in the hope that residential bike theft will become harder to achieve for thieves.

Bikeoff is a research initiative of the Design Council’s Design Against Crime Research Centre in London and was set up four years ago to research how the design of cycling related products and services can reduce cycle theft and increase cycle use. The Design Council has asked Bikeoff to research and write the competition briefs to which UK businesses and designers will respond.

Apart from the British Crime Survey there is little data out there that tells us about how residential bike theft occurs. Consequently, Bikeoff are conducting an online survey to ask cyclists how they store their bikes at home and, if they have had their bike stolen from their home, how it happened.

Bikeoff will use the responses to brief designers and businesses on the most common theft scenarios so that they can come up with designs that have the best chance of addressing the problems British cyclists typically face when attempting to keep their machines secure.

The survey is running over the Christmas period between from today December 20 until January 3. We are keen to hear from as many cyclists as possible, all responses will be anonymous and the data will not be used for any other purpose.

Done.

Progress bar makes the survey appear to be longer than it actually is...

Done.

Done

It is not just for those who have had bikes stolen from home

Romeo done!

Done, easy, took two mins.

Your favicon looks like the LOL WUT pear.
You don't have Cyclocross as an option for bike type.

Done. Nice and straightforward, although I expect there are people here who own more than 5 bikes :)

Done, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Really did only take two minutes. Wish more surveys that clear.

I did it because we had two bikes stolen from my second flat in london, in the pre-forum days.

There is no option for "three of my bikes are locked to pipes in the closet, my fourth bike is kept in a locked closet in a doormaned building on the west side of Park Avenue in the 60's with my sidis, lycra and helmet in a flat that I have a key too but is mostly used to house guests of my friends parents (or the parents themselves) when they are in town otherwise it remains empty except for a maid who visits and who washes my cycling kit if I leave a note asking her to."

Cycling / Closet / Just sayin'

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** insert winkee smilee **

cool story bro

Chris you sound a bit like the guy from Bonfire of the Vanities.

Done and done.

Done, good luck finding a way to stop people pinching stuff, let us know what you come up with!

Thanks to everyone who completed it so far, the more input we get the better the design brief will be.