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So, I like the idea of reducing bike theft (by virtue of making it not profitable), but I don't see the whole picture yet. I have more than one bike (yes, I'm
by ethomson 13y ago
So, I like the idea of reducing bike theft (by virtue of making it not profitable), but I don't see the whole picture yet.
I have more than one bike (yes, I'm one of those dorks) and I would be fairly upset if one of them were stolen. But I also have their serial numbers logged at home, in a safe place, so that I could report that to the police if one were stolen and I'm certain that after doing so... nothing would happen. I'm guessing that if you see your bike get stolen and can somehow stop the thief that having this proof is useful to the police (who can hand it over to you). But 5 minutes later, once that bike is going... I'm guessing the police can do nothing.
So this helps by targeting the buyers? How many stolen bikes are really stolen to bike shops? I would think that a junkie wandering in trying to sell a carbon wunderbike is going to have much luck. And if it's targeting the end consumer... well, I would probably check this registry, but I'm pretty certain that a dozen other people won't.
- sethherr 13y agoSites like stolenbikeregistry.com and chicago.stolenbike.org have been amazingly successful at recovering bikes - their biggest problem is that people don't have good records of their bikes after they are stolen, and that people take too long to list their bikes after they are stolen - which are both problems that we address. And why we're working on providing a universal search so that all sites can access data together.