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Row upon row of bicycles hang unclaimed by owners at the ACT police property office in Mitchell, owners either compensated through insurance and eager to move on, or the rest simply stolen, left, forgotten or discarded. Despite the cost of specialised bikes now running into tens of thousands of dollars, the robustness of systems to set up to protect them from theft has lagged well behind other forms of property security. “Unless you’re into bikes like I am, not many people even know where to find their frame…