Register every bike in your city. Educate E-bike riders about your city's rules.
Bike Index is the nonprofit registry police and bike shops already search to recover stolen bikes. Riders start by registering their bike. If it's an e-bike, they go straight into a short education flow with your city's rules.
- bikes registered
- 1,854,006
- in stolen bikes recovered
- $38M+
- partner organizations
- 1,865+
- law enforcement agencies
- 100+
It starts with registration.
Registration and stolen bike recovery have been the core of Bike Index since 2013. E-bike education is the new layer on top: when a rider registers an e-bike, they learn your rules before the registration is complete.
Registration
Every bike gets a record with serial, photos, and owner. Registrations from shops, schools, city departments, and community programs land in one searchable registry.
How registration worksE-bike education
E-bike riders are taken into your education flow as part of registering. Staff can see any bike's class, battery certification, and signed attestation.
See the education flowStolen bike recovery
A registered bike can be found again. Law enforcement agencies, plus shops and volunteers, search the registry.
How recovery worksEvery bike in your city, in one searchable registry.
Registrations from bike shops, schools, city departments, and community programs land in one place that residents, city staff, and police all use. It works for every bike, not just e-bikes.
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Residents register
Under two minutes from any phone, through a city-branded landing page, a form on your website, or a QR sticker.
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E-bikes get classified
BikeBook identifies the model and its class, and the rider completes your education flow. Regular bikes skip it.
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Every bike gets a page
Status (registered, stolen, or recovered), make, model, color, and serial. Officers and staff pull it up by serial.
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You see it in the dashboard
Registration volume, e-bike share, and activity across programs, plus reports on recoveries and battery audits for city leadership.
Already have registrations? Import them from a spreadsheet. Staff can also add bikes by hand and message owners by registration date, bike type, or e-vehicle status.
When a bike is stolen, the whole network knows.
Stolen bike recovery is Bike Index's founding mission. More than 100 law enforcement agencies use Bike Index directly, and bike shops, pawn shops, and resale platforms can check a serial before a sale goes through.
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Owner reports it STOLENThe status flips immediately and shows up for anyone who searches that serial.
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Officers check in the fieldAt a traffic stop, a pawn shop call, or a sweep, they pull up make, model, color, photo, owner contact, and status history.
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The bike goes homeWhen a serial matches, officers contact the owner directly, without lengthy property room processing.
Anyone who looks up its serial sees it's stolen, and how to reach the owner.
Stolen Bike Hot Sheet
A printable list of stolen bikes in your area with owner phone numbers, updated in real time for your police department.
A community watch, too. Bike Index users watch Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and OfferUp for stolen bikes. Spotters can reach owners without either side's contact details being shared.
Your city sets the baseline. Each program adds its own.
E-bike rules vary by context. A middle school may be stricter than the city, and an apartment complex may have its own charging and storage rules. Bike Index sets up your city as the parent organization, with each program as a child account. City rules apply everywhere, and each program adds its own.
The city sets the baseline
Local ordinances, age limits, helmet rules, and where e-bikes can ride. Every rider in the city sees them.
Programs add their own
A school, apartment complex, or neighborhood program can rewrite any step or add its own, in its own words.
One dashboard for everyone
City staff see registrations across every program. Staff at each program manage only their own rules and riders.
Riders learn the rules that apply to them.
When someone registers an e-bike, Bike Index walks them through a short education flow before the registration is confirmed: batteries and charging, riding practices, your own rules, and a signed consent. The goal is real understanding, not a checkbox. Pick an organization to see how the flow changes.
Every rider in Westbrook sees the city's battery, riding, and local rules, whether they register on their own or through a program.
Your staff edit every step in the admin panel, no technical help needed. Each signed attestation is stored with the exact rules in effect that day.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 1 of 4
Looks like you have an e-bike!
Westbrook has a few e-bike rules to go over before you finish registering.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 2 of 4
Riding practices
Westbrook rules for helmets, lanes, speed, and sidewalks.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 3 of 4
Where e-bikes can ride in Westbrook
Class-based rules and local resources.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 4 of 4
You're almost done.
A quick review of everything you acknowledged.
You're all set.
You confirmed all 9 rules for City of Westbrook. Your signed attestation is saved to your bike's registration.
Students see the city's rules, then the middle school's own policies for riding to campus.
Your staff edit every step in the admin panel, no technical help needed. Each signed attestation is stored with the exact rules in effect that day.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 1 of 5
Looks like you have an e-bike!
Westbrook has a few e-bike rules to go over before you finish registering.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 2 of 5
Riding practices
Westbrook rules for helmets, lanes, speed, and sidewalks.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 3 of 5
Where e-bikes can ride in Westbrook
Class-based rules and local resources.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 4 of 5
Westbrook Middle campus policies
Your school has a few more rules for riding to campus.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 5 of 5
You're almost done.
A quick review of everything you acknowledged.
You're all set.
You confirmed all 13 rules for Westbrook Middle School. Your signed attestation is saved to your bike's registration.
Residents see the city's rules, then building management's own rules for storing and parking at its two buildings.
Your staff edit every step in the admin panel, no technical help needed. Each signed attestation is stored with the exact rules in effect that day.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 1 of 5
Looks like you have an e-bike!
Westbrook has a few e-bike rules to go over before you finish registering.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 2 of 5
Riding practices
Westbrook rules for helmets, lanes, speed, and sidewalks.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 3 of 5
Where e-bikes can ride in Westbrook
Class-based rules and local resources.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 4 of 5
Storage and parking
Where to keep your e-bike at home.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 5 of 5
You're almost done.
A quick review of everything you acknowledged.
You're all set.
You confirmed all 11 rules for Maple Court Apartments. Your signed attestation is saved to your bike's registration.
Neighbors see the city's rules, then the program's own rules for the community center.
Your staff edit every step in the admin panel, no technical help needed. Each signed attestation is stored with the exact rules in effect that day.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 1 of 5
Looks like you have an e-bike!
Westbrook has a few e-bike rules to go over before you finish registering.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 2 of 5
Riding practices
Westbrook rules for helmets, lanes, speed, and sidewalks.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 3 of 5
Where e-bikes can ride in Westbrook
Class-based rules and local resources.
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 4 of 5
Neighborhood rules
Progress saved · E-Vehicle Acknowledgment · Step 5 of 5
You're almost done.
A quick review of everything you acknowledged.
You're all set.
You confirmed all 11 rules for Riverside Neighborhood Program. Your signed attestation is saved to your bike's registration.
Know your e-bike rules.
A free public tool from Bike Index. Riders pick their state and bike and see, in under 30 seconds, whether it's legal to ride, what certification it carries, and what rules apply. The answer leads straight to registration.
- Class, motor, top speed, and UL certification from BikeBook's catalog of e-bike models
- State rules on classes, motor caps, top speed, and throttles, with statute citations
- Inside your program, staff see the class and compliance status of every registered e-bike
Connect any bike on the street to its record.
Education only matters if staff can check it. Parking enforcement, community safety teams, and administrators can look up any bike and see what the rider agreed to.
QR code scan
Scan a bike's sticker with any phone to see its registration, including whether and when the rider completed the education flow.
Serial number lookup
Search by serial from the website or admin panel for the same registration and attestation record.
Stored attestations
Each attestation is saved with the rule set in effect when the rider registered, so you have a lasting, auditable record.
Battery certification audits
Find which bikes in your city carry UL 2849 or UL 2271 certified batteries, and use the data to shape policy and outreach.
Your nonprofit partner
Bike Index has been the world's most widely used bike registry since 2013. City partnerships need no dedicated IT staff, and most are running within days of setup.
Questions
Bike details come from BikeBook, a catalog of e-bike models with their class, motor, speed, and UL certification. State rules are listed with the statutes behind them.
The city is the parent organization. Schools, apartment complexes, and other programs can be child accounts with their own staff and education content. Staff at each level manage only their own rules.
Yes, as a city partner. Start from the Bike Index standard flow or a blank slate. City staff edit the language in the admin panel, with no technical help needed.
There are no per-registration fees, and registering is free for residents. We'll go over pricing for your city on a discovery call.
Yes. Any bike can be registered. The e-bike education steps appear only when a rider registers an e-bike.
Officers and city staff can share permissioned access to the same admin panel, search any bike by serial, and use the Stolen Bike Hot Sheet for their area.
No. Existing registrations can be imported from a spreadsheet.
Talk to us about your city.
Every partnership starts with a short discovery call. Tell us what your city is working on, and we'll show you how Bike Index fits.
- A conversation about your city's priorities, whether that's e-bikes, stolen bike recovery, or registration
- A walkthrough of how Bike Index would work for your city and its programs
- Clear next steps for getting your city set up
We'll reach out by email to set up your discovery call.
Back to Bike Index for CitiesTell us a little about your city, and we'll reach out to find a time to talk.