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    Bike Thieves Are On A Roll During The Pandemic. Here's How To Protect Your Ride

    The "bike boom" of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in a shortage of bikes nationwide, has also led to a significant rise in bike theft in multiple cities across the country
    by Hadia Bakkar Apr 02, 2021 5 minutes
    Dan Henry, D.C. resident, out for a ride on his mountain bike. His bike was stolen from his home a few weeks ago.

    Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth Abrams mainly cycled for fun, but when she moved to Washington, D.C., a fairly bikeable city, in 2020, her motivations for biking became much more practical.

    Abrams did not want to take public transportation during the pandemic, and therefore, relied on her bicycle as the main form of transportation.

    But months later, her bike got stolen from her back patio in Petworth, a neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of the city.

    "I live with a few roommates and we had four bikes that were outside and we had them locked and overnight the lock was cut and all of the bikes were taken," Abrams says.

    Abrams tried to recover the bike by filing a police report and looked around on online websites such as Facebook Marketplace in hopes of finding her stolen bike

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