How common is motorcycle theft in New York City?

Common enough that most NYC riders know someone who's lost a bike. New York consistently ranks among the worst cities in the country for motorcycle and scooter theft, and the structure of the city works against riders:

• Almost nobody has a garage. Most bikes live on the street or in shared lots, exposed every night.
• Density and cover. A crew loading a bike into a van at 3 a.m. looks like every other delivery in the city.
• Scooter boom. The surge in scooters and small-displacement bikes created a huge pool of easy, light targets, and that activity spills over to full-size motorcycles.

Bikes chained to street signs get cut free; bikes with disc locks get lifted into vans. Prevention in NYC means making your bike the hardest one on the block: a heavy chain to a real anchor, an alarmed lock, a cover so thieves can't window-shop, and off-street parking whenever you can get it.

And because even that fails against a motivated crew, a hidden tracker is close to standard equipment for city riders — it turns "my bike is gone" into "my bike is at this address."

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