On all of my several bikes I keep original documents which include
serial numbers. Never had a theft to test whether that's sufficient.
Knowing the landscape, I also do tend to keep things locked up.
On 6/14/2015 3:15 PM, John Rider wrote:
Just a reminder that if you live in Madison, you are legally required
to register your bicycle with the City. And, every bicycle dealer in
the City is required to register every bicycle that they sell to a
Madison resident. The cost is $10.00 for 4 years, but every bike ever
registered is still in that database. Not a well-known ordinance,
almost no money for publicity, not a high priority for the Police or
the City Attorney’s Office, but the ordinance is there none the less.
Many bikes have been returned to their owners by the Police Property
Room because they were registered.
So if you bought a bicycle from a bike shop in Madison and they didn’t
offer to register your bike, the shop was in violation of city
ordinance, and they did you a disservice. They could have charged you
the $10.00, easily gotten all of the required info from you at the
time of sale, and your serial number and contact information would now
be in an easily searchable bicycle registration database.
Just thought you would want to know,
John Rider
(Former City of Madison Bicycle Registration Coordinator)
*From:*Bikies [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Harald Kliems
*Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:26 PM
*To:* William Hauda; bikies-danenet.org
*Subject:* Re: [Bikies] Stolen bikes
There have recently been a couple of cases in Madison where a stolen
bike was recovered from pawn shops, at least partly based on the
recorded serial number. And then of course there were the 600
recovered bikes where the DA had to drop the case against the alleged
thieves/fences because it was impossibly to prove that the bikes had
indeed been stolen. Recorded serial numbers certainly would've helped
with that
http://www.wkow.com/story/29172015/2015/05/27/exclusive-police-seize-600-suspected-stolen-bikes-but-da-drops-case
So no, a recorded serial number won't prevent your bike from being
stolen nor from being sold on Craigslist or at a yard sale. But if the
bike _is_ recovered, it'll provide you with an easy way to identify
the bike and prove ownership.
Btw, the Bike Fed has partnered with BikeIndex to facilitate the
registration of your bikes in an online database:
http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2015/03/18/bike-theft-ring-busted-and-we-launch-stolen-bike-registry/
Harald.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 4:11 AM William Hauda <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This bike theft and the urging by Madison PD to keep a record of
serial numbers for identification again begs the question of how
useful
that actually is. There is no national database of bicycle serial
numbers like there is of VINs for motor vehicles, so how can
knowing the
serial number of a stolen bike even be helpful?
http://www.channel3000.com/news/2700-bike-stolen-from-garage-in-madison-neighborhood/33549346
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