How to get your stolen bike back

Bijgewerkt on 2021-04-06


Bike Index is the #1 resource for you when the worst happens - your bike gets stolen.

Bike Index is the world's best bike theft recovery platform, with the highest bike theft recovery rate of any bike registration service. We're here to get your bike back. All it takes is a minute to register, for free, and we'll tap into our network of hundreds of thousands of users and 1,000+ partnerships with law enforcement, bike shops, cities, and organizations to get your bike back.

Don't wait - unlock the Bike Index stolen bike recovery platform by registering your stolen bike on Bike Index now. Start using our recovery tools to recruit help from all over the world.

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How do we do it?

As a non-profit, Bike Index's main bike theft recovery tool is community. We empower the cyclist by allowing you to register your stolen bike and immediately alert not only the community in which you live, but the national and international communities on the lookout for stolen bikes.

A Bike Index account lets you:

  1. Unlock our comprehensive stolen bike recovery platform
  2. Unleash the power of our volunteer community
  3. Create social media friendly stolen bike alerts
  4. Register your bike as stolen in police and pawn industry databases
  5. Have the best chance of recovering your stolen bike

With tools like our promoted alerts on Facebook and our tweeting of stolen bikes to our thousands of followers, Bike Index amplifies your stolen bike listing.

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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.

Bike Index is the best tool in your time of crisis. Register your stolen bike now. You have nothing else to lose.

More resources:

Bike Index recovery record
  • 15.686 - Stolen bikes recovered
  • $29.523.968 - Value of bikes recovered with Bike Index

Police found the bike thanks to Bike Index. vertaald uit het Engels

Photo of recovered bike Lindsay Fiets hersteld 2025.4.13

I registered my bike on Bike Index as missing and posted on a Facebook forum for Burlington, and within a couple of hours, I got a text that it was found! vertaald uit het Engels

Photo of recovered bike Erik Fiets hersteld 2025.4.11

Recovered by the Calgary Police Service! vertaald uit het Engels

Photo of recovered bike Barb Fiets hersteld 2025.4.10

Found it on Facebook Marketplace. Contacted the police. Someone bought it before the Police could set up a buy, and the person who bought it looked it up on Bike Index, saw it was stolen, contacted me, and the police, and returned my bike :) vertaald uit het Engels

Photo of recovered bike Daniel Fiets hersteld 2025.4.10

The individual who bought the bike after it was stolen learned it was stolen when he tried to sell it recently, so he brought it to the Bothell Police so that it could be returned to its owner. vertaald uit het Engels

Photo of recovered bike Pam Fiets hersteld 2025.4.8