And for many people living in apartments, even storing a bike at home is problematic, you don't really want to be lugging an e-bike up/down stairs every day.

If we want cycling to be treated as a serious form of transport, then we need to treat bike theft almost as seriously as car theft.

(But it seems that we're going in the other direction, and allowing car theft to rise as ever-younger kids learn how to steal cars from videos on social media)