The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever
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The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever
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#2the folks at http://project529.com are getting started in the bike registry space as well. I like their push for online bike sales to list serial numbers to lower the chances of stolen bikes from being sold easily. but getting the number of registries to fewer (ideally 1) is a really good thing.
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#3Great looking site but what makes this "The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever"? There seem to be dozens of bike registries. It would be nice to see some sort of data sharing between them.
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#4In my country, registering your bike gives you a huge discount on the insurance. Is it common other places, and will a bike registered through this site be eligible for a similar type of discount?
I'd wish more listing sites would have mandatory fields for a bikes serial number, and that people would actually bother to check the registry when buying a bike. Unfortunately, a cheap bike makes many people blind to it probably being stolen.
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#5How do these registries pay the bills?
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#6In my country, registering your bike gives you a huge discount on the insurance. Is it common other places, and will a bike registered through this site be eligible for a similar type of discount? I'd wish more listing sites would have mandatory fields for a bikes serial number, and that people would actually bother to check the registry when buying a bike. Unfortunately, a cheap bike makes many people blind to it pr…
I wouldn't think many people would consult a registry in order to assure themselves that the bike they're buying isn't stolen; rather, they'd use it to find a bike they already owned and that had subsequently been stolen, as a means to try and find it. I suppose a Pawn shop or similar would use it for a purpose as you suggest, though.
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#7Great looking site but what makes this "The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever"? There seem to be dozens of bike registries. It would be nice to see some sort of data sharing between them.
That's what we've been working on since we started - and why we're open source and have an open API https://bikeindex.org/documentation/api_v1
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#8I see why I might register my bike - in case its lost or stolen. But why would anyone look up a bike in there? Either its not in there - time wasted. Or it is - there goes your sale. Net value: zero or negative.
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#9I see why I might register my bike - in case its lost or stolen. But why would anyone look up a bike in there? Either its not in there - time wasted. Or it is - there goes your sale. Net value: zero or negative.
Well, for a potential buyer of a bike the value is much larger than zero. After all, who would like to buy a stolen bike?
Registering your bike and possibly mentioning that fact on your bike using a sticker might even help as a deterrent.
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#10I see why I might register my bike - in case its lost or stolen. But why would anyone look up a bike in there? Either its not in there - time wasted. Or it is - there goes your sale. Net value: zero or negative.
If Craigslist/eBay force you to include a serial number when listed, then it might dry up the market for stolen bikes.