BiKLOX has been named winner of the Hands Off My Bike Challenge Prize.

Hands Off My Bike was one of the first competitions announced by Nesta's Centre for Challenge Prizes when it launched in 2012. The aim of the prize was to find breakthrough innovations to make it more difficult to steal bikes, which in turn would encourage more people to cycle.

The innovations were judged by the longest time it took to free the bike, the impact on the environment, cost and potential for commercialisation and/or implementation at scale.

Watch the video demonstrating BiKLOX and runner-up, G-Lock



BiKLOX is a light, portable bike lock with a locking bar that fits between wheel spokes and stave to immobilise the pedal, with an additional cable lock to further secure the bike.  

Designer Steve Blanks scooped the £35,000 prize which he says will help him take it to market, hopefully by Christmas.

The judging panel also selected Andy Clift's G-Lock, a new approach to the traditional D-Lock, as runner-up. This received £15,000 for further development.


 

The other finalists:

Peter Davenport, Velosafe Cycle Locker:  a secure storage cabinet (safe like) for a bike. It also has an anchor point to lock bike to within the "pod", as well as the locking door.

Charlotte Graham: An armoured cable lock and immobiliser which attaches directly onto the frame.

Nigel George, reCycle lock: A cable lock with car tyre surrounding, with a bicycle chain interior, filled with silicone and various reused metallic objects such as nuts and bolts.

Pip Cartwright, The Fast-Fast Lock: A development on the chain lock idea, with the chain being permanently fitted to the bike which can be 'looped' to items of many different sizes in four seconds.

Keith Humphris: A wall anchor with a fitted locking mechanism that does not need to be carried by the cyclist and can be used by any cyclist who has a unique locking point attached to their cycle.

Nick Rawcliffe, D2: Protector which is permanently fitted to an item increasing security of the cyclist's existing D Shackle.

Gareth Bristow, Roc Nut: A portable locking nut that provides protection for bike wheels when screwed on so that the thief can't cycle the bike away.

Daniel Harkin, Mason Holden and Michael Evans, Sentinel: Street furniture with integrated electronically actuated locking bar that moves across to secure the bike. The user simply places the rear end of their bicycle between two Sentinel towers, and activates the lock using any card they have to hand, free of charge because the advertising on either side of the stand pays for the cost of the equipment

Stephen Briggs, Doc Lock: Super strength locking mechanism that is an integrated wall anchor and lock that can lock a single bike directly with no other chain or lock required.