Take one look at the news, your local Reddit forum, or a scroll through your Facebook feed, and it’s pretty easy to draw the conclusion that bike thefts are on the rise in many places across the US. In my hometown of Burlington, Vermont, local police have even rolled out their own bike registry to combat it (in addition to using the very helpful and wider ranging Bike Index).
And the headlines keep coming. Even innovative parts maker Ceramicspeed had its HQ raided and its prototype Driven drivetrain bikes stolen. (How anyone would profit from a bike that can’t be sold is beyond me.) If those bikes are a target, it stands to reason that the road bike or mountain bike in your garage is a potential target, too, not to mention any bike that you have locked up on the street.
To combat the uptick in bike theft, Aussie brand Knog has launched the Scout Bike Alarm and Finder. Like many of the bike tracking systems we’ve seen recently, it works using Apple’s Airtag protocol. But unlike many of the other solutions that involve purchasing an Airtag separately and attaching it via a handful of clever mounts, the Scout is a one-piece solution.
