Bike Index Combats E-Bike Theft & Assists Stolen Bike Recoveries With Its Free Registry – CleanTechnica – TechnoNews

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With the free registry system on the non-profit Bike Index, bicycle and e-bike homeowners can get entry to a potent device for the potential restoration of their stolen bike.

Standard bicycles have lengthy been a goal of thieves, and as anybody who’s had their bike stolen earlier than can testify, it flat-out sucks, even when it’s a clunker from a giant field retailer, however particularly so if it’s a better finish bike that can price a fairly penny to switch. Catching a thief and/or getting your bike again may be troublesome, if not close to inconceivable in lots of instances, even when the theft is reported to the police, as stolen bikes can simply find yourself in a ‘chop shop’ after which the elements shortly offered for money, or they are often transported out of city and offered elsewhere, out of the jurisdiction of your native regulation enforcement company. And now, as e-bikes achieve extra traction with each passing day, thieves are more and more electrical bikes as one other fast solution to make a buck from their work. However because of the work of Bike Index, bicycle and e-bike homeowners have one other weapon of their anti-theft arsenal, and a free one, to-boot.

Bike Index, which was based in 2013, has constructed a formidable grassroots bike restoration neighborhood over the past 11 years, with much more spectacular outcomes — over 1.2 million bikes have been registered, and greater than 14,000 stolen bicycles, valued at over $25 million, have been recovered because of the Bike Index registry. With “hundreds of thousands of users and 1,000+ partnerships with law enforcement, bike shops, cities, and organizations,” Bike Index helps cyclists to alert not solely their local people, but additionally nationwide and worldwide communities, to be on the watch for his or her stolen bike for a greater likelihood at recovering it.

“Bike Index gets bike-theft sympathetic eyes onto your bike. If someone sees it or finds it, they can message you via your Bike Index listing. And our network of Bike Index ambassadors, bike shops, and law enforcement partners is growing every day. Bike theft is a hot issue, and people are plugging in to monitor online sales platforms, report chop shops, and return bikes to their rightful owners.”

Registering your bicycle at Bike Index is quick and straightforward, assuming you may have no less than the model and mannequin and serial variety of the bike, so there’s no draw back to it, and bikes may even be registered after they’re stolen. By including different data, akin to pictures of the bike, a list of the specs and parts, and some other related particulars, bike theft victims assist the bigger biking neighborhood higher establish the stolen bike and make it simpler to get better. Moreover, a motorbike may be regarded up within the registry earlier than buying it in an effort to make sure that it’s not stolen, which is one other useful path to bike restoration.

Proper now individuals with good intentions purchase stolen bikes as a result of there isn’t a single searchable, easy useful resource to examine earlier than shopping for a motorbike.

Bike Index is that useful resource. The following time you purchase a used bike, examine the Index first.

We provide bike outlets and regulation enforcement a simple to make use of interface to search for any suspicious bikes they encounter, and a solution to shortly contact the right proprietor.

We efficiently get better stolen bikes each week by this course of.

Only in the near past, Bike Index has launched a free iOS app as nicely, which permits for cyclists to register their bikes and/or report them stolen proper from their iPhone. The app additionally makes it simpler for Bike Index companions and different organizations to seek for stolen bikes or examine the standing on a motorbike they see in particular person or on the market. Get the inside track on how one can get your stolen bike again, and register your bikes and e-bikes at Bike Index at this time.

Photograph by Aleksandr Kadykov on Unsplash