e-bikes

Virgin Media’s broadband cabinets were stripped of their metal covers in Nottinghamshire this autumn, leaving residents worried about exposed wiring and untidy streets. For us at ETA, the thefts carried an odd sense of déjà vu. In April we imagined a world where cyclists disguised their bikes as those very boxes – rideable sheds hidden in plain sight. The joke, of course, was that nowhere is truly safe. Thieves will steal anything, from locked bikes to the cabinets bolted into the ground that might have concealed them.