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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2024 17:18:37 GMT
I only just heard about this and thought I'd post it here. It's a free on-line registry of bikes.It has a number of benefits. If you have your bike stolen then you can post on there to alert others, and more eyes can see if anyone is trying to sell it. You can also check a bike before you purchase second hand to see if it's been stolen. And then you can prove that a bike is yours if any disagreement over ownership happens - such as cutting your own lock off in public if you lost a key ; or even more likely these days, you need to cut a thief's lock off your bike if they put one on in order to come back and steal it later. www.bikeregister.com
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Mar 24, 2024 21:20:40 GMT
Not the same, but USA based and you may have similar benefits.
All the Best Jim
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Post by dracco on Mar 24, 2024 23:03:47 GMT
The police here in the UK have been quite proactive in getting cyclists to register their bikes: when I was in Bristol in 2022 I encountered a couple of Bike Register sessions organised by a local police officers outside a popular coffee stop on the Bristol-Bath cycle path (an excellent path on a disused railway line very heavily used by cyclists). Back in Yorkshire in 2023 our club run stopped off in Otley where a similar session was being run by the West Yorkshire constabulary (and we all registered our bikes then and there).
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