The Van Moof theft protection is pretty effective. One of my friends has one and is driving (and parking) all over Berlin. Basically if you touch it it makes no

The Van Moof theft protection is pretty effective. One of my friends has one and is driving (and parking) all over Berlin. Basically if you touch it it makes noise. If you touch it some more, it escalates the noise. If you keep messing with it, it will get really loud. Forget about not being seen (or heard) if you try to steal this thing. If somehow you do, you basically have to demolish the bike to get to the tracking hardware. Until you do, basically Van Moof has a bike hunters team that comes as part of a deal that basically says they'll track down your bike and return it or give you a new one. Pretty awesome insurance. And super effective. Thieves leave these bikes alone; just not worth the risk and trouble plus the resell value is pretty low because you basically have to take the bike apart, remove the hardware and put some other hardware in it to avoid it being taken away from its new owner by the before mentioned bike hunters. Kind of defeats the purpose of stealing it.