Give me a call ...you can do bike consignment. It can help with legitimizing bikes and keeping bikes circulating. Good to have database... We have recovered many stolen bikes because we document outer clients and serial numbers. On Jan 25, 2013 8:29 AM, "Nozomi Ikuta" nozomi@affordablebikesrecyclery.com wrote:
We just opened in August and haven't yet been through a busy spring season, but we have a database with our bikes and serial numbers, and have also tried to track customer info. Seems to me that putting it all in one place would help at least at the neighborhood/city level. We flirted with the idea of buying used bikes and quickly realized the legal and ethical pitfalls, not to mention the economic ones!
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Angelo Coletta < summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com> wrote:
It seems to me that something is better than nothing. However, you are sticking your thumb in the dike. It isn't global enough. I believe that all bicycles, by law, should be registered at point of sale. The process would be much like automobile registration. I am sure that many readers would howl at the moon over this notion, but I can't think of any more positive way to connect a cycle to its owner.
*From:* Cycle Re Cycle Cycle-Re-Cycle swm <cycle.re.cycle.swm@gmail.com
*To:* thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org *Sent:* Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:03 PM *Subject:* [TheThinkTank] Bicycle Registry
Hello All, Our community, non-profit bike shop, Cycle-Re-Cycle, is looking into the logistics of starting a community bicycle registry. The local police department doesn't have anything like it and bicycle theft is pretty rampant in our community. We keep serial numbers and descriptions on all bikes we sell, so it seems that the next step is just to print stickers with a sequential number on it to adhere to all the bikes leaving the shop.
Has anyone ever started a bicycle registry like this? Thoughts or tips?
Thanks Cycle-Re-Cycle Benton Harbor, MI
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