$2,000 Electric Bike Stolen 10 Minutes After Being Locked Up

If you live in a big city or town, chances are some of the food deliveries you have received were brought to you on an e-bike. But the pricey electric bikes have also become a hot target for thieves. To see how bad the problem is, Inside Edition rented a sleek, $2,000 electronic bike from NYC Adventure eBike Tours. We hid two GPS devices in the bike, and Inside Edition Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero locked it to a stop sign post. Just 10 minutes later, a man strolled up, ripped off the cable lock and rode away.

And if you live in a big city or a big town there’s a good chance that some of the food deliveries you may have received were brought to you on an e-bike lisa guerrero reports those e-bikes have proved to be an irresistible temptation to thieves pricey electric bikes are everywhere now

But they’ve also become a hot target for thieves sparks fly as this crook uses a buzz saw to cut the chain of an expensive e-bike watch as this thief steals an e-bike right as this food delivery man is coming down the steps he gives chase but can’t catch up as bike

Thefts jump delivery workers band together for safety reads a recent new york times headline delivery workers are targeted now more than ever because they’re using some of the most expensive bikes in order to do this work the nypd says e-bike thefts have doubled since last

Year to see how bad the problem is we rented this sleek two thousand dollar electric bike from nyc adventure e-bike tours to turn the tables on the bike thieves we’re going to hide not just one but two gps devices in this brand new e-bike here comes lisa riding up on the

E-bike and then i locked the bike up to this stop sign post time to see if any bike thieves come on by how long did we have to wait just 10 minutes watch as this guy strolls up he sizes up the bike then bam he rips it right off then he

Hops on and speeds off there he goes time to track him down he can move so much easier on the bike than we can in us manhattan traffic our gps trackers led us on this circuitous route go straight to lights and then make a right coming up on the

Park eight blocks later we find ourselves at tompkins square park time to head out on foot so we’re in pursuit looking for the bike thief we scoured the park but there was no sign of him or our bike anywhere suddenly it’s under the tarp is there a bike under here

But everyone here says they don’t have a clue how the bike got there somebody took the bike and put it under the tarp i don’t know and if i knew i wouldn’t say no sounds pretty pretty fishy we got our bike back but the guy who stole it

Is long gone we caught him on camera but we might never see that man again as for the tens of thousands of delivery workers in new york city they say they just want to get home safely every night these e-bikes are delivery workers livelihood and they relied on these bikes in order

To provide a better life to their families just last month in new york city a delivery worker was stabbed to death by a suspected e-bike thief