Bikeoff is an initiative of the Design Against Crime Research Centre located at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.  It is concerned with reducing bicycle theft through practice based design research aimed at catalysing, and in some cases creating, cycling products and services that consider users (cyclists) but also abusers (vandals and thieves).

The Bikeoff Research Initiative was set up in January 2004, with small grants funding from the Arts Humanities Research Council to explore how the design of cycling related objects and environments might reduce the risk of theft and promote cycle usage.  In 2006 further research funding from the AHRC/EPSRC  Designing for the 21st Century programme  awarded to  the Design Against Crime Research Centre  and the  Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science funded a portfolio of projects, the outputs of which you  can now  access  on this website.

We hope this  web-based resource will aid designers and other stakeholders to begin to understand the problem of bicycle theft and how to design against it to increase the ease and enjoyment of cycling.

Acknowledgements and thanks are due to all those colleagues from TfL, the Metropolitan Police, the British Transport Police, the Home Office, the Design Council, the Royal Society of Arts,  London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Westminster, Brighton and Hove Council , Camden and Southwark Cycle Groups , Bicycle Club of Catalonia, and many other groups, advisors and stakeholders,  too numerous to name individually here,  who supported and advised Bikeoff’s  s team of academics, designers and other creatives. Thanks are also due to  all those who helped create the visualisation of crime and  design information you will find here.

The   Bikeoff website  has been  produced by  the  collective endeavours  of the many creative individuals named below.

Adam Thorpe
Bikeoff at Design Against Crime Research Centre
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
October 1 2008

Crime Research:
Paul Ekblom
Lorraine Gamman
PC Ike Gray, Metropolitan Police
Shane Johnson
Aiden Sidebottom
Adam Thorpe

Design Research and Design Visualisation Staff

Core Team:
Dani Davies
Itamar Ferrer
Lorraine Gamman
Chloe Griffiths
Spike Spondike
Adam Thorpe
Marcus Willcocks (Barcelona)

Design Support:

Diego Bello (Japan)
Joe Hunter
Andy Huntingdon
Michael Salmon
Eva Sterbova (BACC Barcelona)
Chris Thomas
Rob Thompson
Ansel Thompson

Student Designers/Researchers:
Amelia Braekke-Dyer
Theo Bridge
Chris Campbell
Pierre Chauveau
Vincenzo Di Maria
Keni Lam
Michael Lambourn
Jessica Lertvilai
Robert  McColgan
Stefania Orlando
Georgina Potier
Bruno Taylor
Pu Tai

Student Crime Researcher:
Georgina Hansford

Technical Support
Mark Simpkins
Andy Holyer

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