A "bike bait" unit should be set up in the National Crime Agency to catch bicycle thieves, the Liberal Democrats have said. The party has argued that the dedicated team could work with local police forces to place bikes, fitted with trackers, in theft hotspots enabling officers to trace thieves and gather evidence about wider criminal networks. It has cited Home Office data showing that across England and Wales 86% of bike thefts went unsolved between March 2024 and March 2025.
Thieves broke into the Visma bike truck located outside the team hotel near Milan, seizing multiple models. Multiple media reported that three were later recovered from where they had been dumped in a nearby park, but the squad was left bereft of a high proportion of their bikes. Talking to reporters at the stage 3 start early on Monday afternoon, Jorgenson said that no less than three of his own bikes had been stolen, and he was far from alone in that.
