Is there any evidence that thieves prefer one color of bike than others?
I'm not asking for opinion but for a citable reference.
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Sign up to join this communityIs there any evidence that thieves prefer one color of bike than others?
I'm not asking for opinion but for a citable reference.
Finding statistics is extremely difficult, but one set of data was located from the Chicago Stolen Bike Registry http://chicago.stolenbike.org
Their statistics page (http://chicago.stolenbike.org/report-statistics) is now dead/404-ed but if you go to the WaybackMachine, you can get archived data from September 2012.
And tada!
This one is probably a bit less than scientific, but seemed interesting.
Also, unlike all of our other stats, it's based on a free-form text entry,
rather than a select-box type field.
Color
Black 14.23%
blue 7.60%
Red 5.28%
Silver 5.21%
White 4.87%
Green 2.30%
Grey 1.63%
Yellow 1.26%
Light Blue 1.17%
ORANGE 1.15%
Gray 1.09%
purple 0.91%
Gold 0.83%
Black/Silver 0.80%
Brown 0.74%
dark blue 0.74%
However, to make sense of this data we'd also have to know what proportion of colors are the most popular amongst bike sales because if Black bikes make up 25% of the market but only 14% of thefts, then black bikes would be proportionately less likely to be stolen. So some further research is needed.
Black Colour Bicycle is Bicycle Thief choice is for One reason:
Thief can just paint it with black coloured Spray and Not get detected
Black colour bicycle is the world's Most favorite colour,Even I want it
Black coloured bicycle (Mostly Plain bicycle) Is very common in US