Where's your bike most at risk? It turns out you're more likely to have it stolen from home than from outside shops or at train stations. Perhaps more worryingly, locks don't seem to stop thieves, with two bikes in three having locks attached when thieves made off with them.
“Cycle theft is so common it sometimes feels like it’s almost a rite of passage for cyclists - that’s a really sorry state of affairs,” said professional cyclist and Olympic champion Geraint Thomas, who once had one of his bikes stolen from his car.
And while not every bike is a £10,000 carbon-fibre time-trial machine like Thomas rides, they cost. The average stolen bike is worth £377.06, figures from show, with stolen bikes in London worth more at £650.83 on average and one person in 12 losing a bike worth more than £1,000.
Where bikes are stolen from most often (%)
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Locking a bike up obviously helps, but what you choose to use as a lock and what you lock your bike to matter as well.
Protect Your Bubble found 65.3% of stolen bikes were locked when they were nicked, rising to 77.8% of those taken in London.
But only one cyclist in 11 uses and four in five are happy to use bike racks that aren't anchored to the ground.
On top of that, only one in ten cyclists has had their bike security marked by the police and even fewer insure their steeds – meaning they're left paying if thieves take their bikes.
“There are security measures people can take,” said Stephen Ebbett, global director of Protect Your Bubble.