Nesta's 'Hands off my Bike!' competition

hey guys,

A call has gone out on the London Hack Space mailing list about Nesta's 'Hands off my Bike!' competition:

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Looks like a great competition, with the potential to help launch (or 'kick-start'!) another Cycle Hoop, :-)

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Sounds good. Any ideas?

a bicycle movement alert, ;~)

Ride fixed gear brakeless and foil the scum!

setting your bike in a block of concrete should win

"The winning innovation will be the one that during the live testing results in the longest time to steal the bike with a minimum threshold of 5 minutes."

That does seem to favor the block of concrete approach, there must be more to it than that ...?

I'm telling you, I've thought this through!

Do it!
Or just put a HUGE gear on it and watch time try and accelerate.

---------- Forwarded message from NESTA ----------
Date: Nov 21, 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: Deadline for 'Hands off my Bike' - 18th January 2013

Hi all,

Deadline for the 'Hands off my Bike' challenge is coming up and we are getting very excited to see your brilliant ideas on how to make it more difficult to steal bikes.

Just a quick reminder for those who haven't submitted the entry yet, please bear in mind the deadline is at noon 18th January 2013.

The challenge has been featured on several blogs, magazines, newspapers and numerous stakeholders are waiting to see the ideas that will finally eradicate bike theft.

Submit your entry here:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/challengeprizes/cyclingchallenges/assets/features/hands_off_my_bike

Best of Luck!

The Challenge Team

will be updating the #BicycleMovementAlert entry soon..

50k prize. Goddam. If only I had ideas and a way of building stuff.

Velociraptors with lasers and a tshirt with security on the back.

Does the thief have to ride off or just unlock it?
I think a lockable BB/crankset would be useful to stop them riding off.

the competition aim is making it harder to steal bicycles - but i guess that would include parts of bicycles as well!

@I-Ripper - that's actually a really good idea - is there some ingenious way of preventing the chain from turning which is really hard to break?!

{a tired head starts to over-think}
Zzzz

just seen that the winner has been announced,

The winner of the Hands Off My Bike Challenge Prize is BiKLOX.

I-Ripper had already called the winning idea!!

Does the thief have to ride off or just unlock it?
I think a lockable BB/crankset would be useful to stop them riding off.

this gives me faith that the youth can solve all of the planet's problems, restful sleep awaits, :-)

Zz

How is that winning one any different to sticking a kryptonite mini around the seat tube and rear rim? It looks considerably more faff, and if anything even less secure.

I quite like the G-lock thing. If you can use it one-handed that's progress. D-locks require you to use the hand with the key in – risking scratching the bike and just a bit awkward.

I must be missing something with the winner though. That's just not a good idea. It's already easy to 'immobilise' a bike (mini d through either wheel or disc lock through the chainset) but it's not going to stop the theft of the type of (light) bikes people use in the uk. The added cable lock... we all know cable locks aren't enough.