The bike registry that works.

"Someone bought my stolen bike in what seemed to him like a sketchy scenario, so he looked up the serial number when he got home to discover that it had indeed been stolen. We met up at a mutually convenient location to hand over the bike."

"I made lots of posts about it (Facebook, Nextdoor, & Reddit). I included my Bike Index report in some of the posts. People from Reddit spotted it and that lead to me getting a picture of the thief. I made more posts with that picture. Then someone from the Madison Bike Community page saw my post and got my bike back from the thief."

"A friend called me and said that she recovered my bike that someone left it thrown in the parking lot of the lodge. Thank God"

"Someone saw my bike hanging in the same stall over the course of a couple of weeks/months in a bike storage room at a business complex. They got curious, checked the serial number on Bike Index, found my information, and gave me a call. It was missing for 13 months, I had given up on getting it back. I'm so grateful for the person for looking out, being curious, and calling."

"Thank you Bike Index and the BVT bike recovery group!"

"Thank you Bike Index!"

"About a week after it was stolen, a pawn shop called the cops. When the bike was brought in, they ran the serial number in the bike registry and it returned stolen. They bought it from the dude, got his ID, and then gave me the bike and had the court pay them back. Just remembered to mark it recovered just in case it's stolen again."

"Calgary Police Services recovered the bike from a residential property & located me via bike index"

"Transit Police confiscated off a detainee that was loitering at train station"

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