Bikes get stolen pretty quickly here too, even with the vélib bikes readily available (and only about 20 euros for a year pass), if you leave them in the wrong places. A friend of mine's had two stolen in a month because he left them outside at night.
I was figuring that it such orderliness, cleanliness and safety might be a characteristic of small Germanic cities - a category into which Berlin would not fit.
A lot of people here get cheap old bikes just because they're the least likely to get stolen (though I had two of those stolen too).