This free feature helps make stolen Bosch e-bikes unsellable

Look at how confident Bosch’s anti-theft features make you. | Image: Bosch

Stolen electric bikes built around Bosch motors will be harder to sell, service, and ride at the end of January. That's when Bosch is rolling a new digital theft feature that lets owners mark the bike as stolen in the Bosch Flow app - no subscription required. Bosch rolled out a similar feature for expensive Bosch batteries last year, but it stupidly required a subscription to Flow Plus.

"If an e-bike or a battery is marked as stolen...