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  Bike safety tips for recovering your own bicycle

  What to do and not to do when going at it alone

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  Understanding Bicycle Warranties

  Your bicycle warranty may not be covering what you think

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  The 6 Best Bike Locks in 2020

  Finding the best lock for your bicycle can be tricky. There’s loads to choose from. And the wrong decision can have disastrous consequences!

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  A Canadian case study in better bike theft mitigation

  Cities in Alberta are paving the way for reducing bike theft. How are they doing it?

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  1000’s of bikes are being stolen during the pandemic. What can you do?

  Most people who ride a bike will have their bike stolen at some point. It’s just the cruel fact of our reality. If - but hopefully not when - this happens to you, what is your recourse? Bike regist...

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  Want Extra Bike Security? Register your Ride!

  We turned to Bike Index to get the lowdown on how you can keep your bike ... well, yours.

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  In our own words: Lily Williams, Olympics postponement

  "All we know is that the Olympics will be irrevocably altered."

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  Portland Police Bureau implements new Bike Index dashboard to fight bike crime

  Bike Index supporting city part of growing list of dashboard users

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  Internationalizing Bike Index

  Great news for our friends in the Netherlands – Bike Index is now available in Dutch! Here's how we did it.

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  Bicycle Insurance, Explained

  Insuring your bike is less complicated than you thought

• Think about your heckles

  We can all enjoy our sport with a bit of moderation between fun and malicious

• Why I don't like goal-setting

  In-house pro Lily Williams talks about her process - or lack thereof - of goal-setting

• What to do when your bike is stolen in Lane County, Coburg, Cottage Grove, Eugene, Florence, Junction City, Oakridge, or Springfield, Oregon

  If you live in Oregon, get your bike back

• Life on the road as a professional cyclist - time and place

  Our own professional athlete gives us the lowdown on how she decompresses while on the road

• Bike Index's new promoted alerts are the megaphone crooks don't want you to use

  New promoted alerts supercharge your stolen bike’s social reach - and recoverability

• Edmonton, Alberta brings on Bike Index to reduce bike theft in Canada

  New law enforcement features and community approach encourage Edmonton to choose Bike Index

• What to do when your bike is stolen in Portland Oregon ...

  The Rose City has a huge bike theft problem - but we're here to help!

• What to do when your bike has been stolen in the Bay Area

  Help us help you get your stolen bike back ...

• What to do when your bike has been stolen in Seattle

  Has your bike been stolen in or around Seattle WA? Here's what you should do to maximize your chances of getting it back ...

• Help your community recover bikes with a local stolen bikes facebook page

  You have the tools to make a difference in bike theft in your community right now - for free!

• Bike Index's February 2019 Recoveries!

  Twenty two awesome stories of bike recoveries and various anti-theft awesomeness ...

• San Jose registers local school bikes using Bike Index mobile registration tools

  You can host a registration drive as well using these simple instructions

• Welcome to our Big (10) new partner - the Pennsylvania State University!

  With Penn State comes a full suite of new features ready to offer for universities

• Why register your bikes on Bike Index?

  Add your bike to the registry with the highest rate of stolen bicycle recoveries

• Professional bicycle mechanics are the front line against stolen bicycles

  Thank your mechanic for protecting you from bike theft

• Bike Index rolls out new features for police accounts

  Bulk search and ability to contact owners of abandoned bikes decrease administration time for Bike Index police departments

• Bike Index's January 2019 recoveries!

  If the whole year's going to be like this month, we're in for a wild ride ...

• Recovering bikes before they are marked stolen

  New Bike Index feature allows select police departments to contact owners of recovered bikes before they're marked stolen

• Meet Craig Dalton, new Bike Index Executive Director

  Good morning 2019. My name is Craig Dalton and I am the new Executive Director of Bike Index. You may wonder: what does the Executive Director of a nonprofit like Bike Index do? I joined early this...

• New Ascend Retail integration provides free tools for thousands of new bike shops

  Ascend integration exponentiates shop registration capabilities

• Bike Index: who we are, what we do, and how we've recovered $7 million in bicycles

  Get re-acquainted with the service protecting your bikes

• 5 ways to manage bikes on your campus

  Keep your campus rolling smoothly with tips for streamlining bike management

• 5 Ways to Grow Community for your Bike Shop

  Grow your customer base by providing extraneous value for your customers

• Bike Index unveils new QR stickers and partnership with the City of Palo Alto

  Bike Index increases custom development options for new partner organizations

• 9 Steps for Getting Your Stolen Bike Back

  BIKE GOT STOLEN? DON’T DESPAIR: THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS YOU CAN RECOVER YOUR WHEELS.

• Driving service revenues with bicycle registration

  Use our free registration tools to enter your customers into the most successful bike theft recovery database

• Meet Bike Index's newest partner: Inglewood, California!

  Meet Inglewood, California PD - Bike Index's newest law enforcement partner

• Bike Index's December 2018 recoveries!

  aka COME ON IS THIS YEAR OVER YET

• Bike Index's November 2018 recoveries!

  Remember, remember, the abs. redic amount of bikes we helped recover in September ...

• Bike Index's October 2018 bike recoveries

  Oh hey look we're four months behind on our recoveries

• Bike Index's September 2018 recoveries!

  Hey! Here's 40+ awesome stories of recovered bikes from September 2018 :)

• Bike Index's newest municipal partner: New Orleans

  Adding to Stolen Bikes NOLA's use of Bike Index, the city will now officially register bikes in Bike Index

• Be a Bike Saver - Donate to Bike Index on Giving Tuesday

  It’s no secret that Bike Index is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We tout it all the time. Our nonprofit status allows us to work with the groups whose missions align with ours and it reflects our simple go...

• Boomerang CycloTrac set to launch V2 with improvements

  If you haven’t read our review of the Boomerang CycloTrac from last November, then before you begin here, give it a look. About a year ago, Bryan, our in house bike tech expert, received a Boomeran...

• Eight questions with Vlad Sonkin, developer of a free Bike Index app for Android

  tl;dr: Russian devs that we've never ever met before built a Bike Index app for Android!

• Bike Index's August 2018 recoveries!

  Thirty eight stories of recovered bikes from August 2018 here at the Bike Index ...

• Eight questions with the owner of Bike Index's 5000th Recovered Bike

  The bicycle's name is 'Walter'

• Bikes rule in the Netherlands

  Bike Index communications director visits Sittard

• Bike Index's July 2018 recoveries !

  Wow, it's almost like lax enforcement combined with rampant online fencing leads to more bike thefts ...

• Bike Index's June 2018 recoveries!

  Who has two thumbs and a bunch of bike recoveries from June 2018? THIS GUY!

• Bike Index's May 2018 recoveries!

  So many stolen bikes. So little time ... This is our summer: bikes on bikes on bikes .....

• Bike Index's April 2018 recoveries!

  We've officially entered the season where we're so busy that I'm months behind on these recovery reports ...

• Get your donations in this summer to help Bike Index master 'Bike Season'

  Help us keep more bikes safe

• Bike Index launches new Ambassadors Program

  Want to help out at Bike Index? Become a Bike Index Ambassador.

• Redmond, OR implements Bike Index citywide

  The city near Bend will expand the region's ability to recover stolen bicycles

• Bike Index's March 2018 recoveries!

  Ermahgerrd behrks ehn Merrch ...

• Universities should use Bike Index as their registration system of choice

  Bike Index is a better choice than other registries or independently-run university registries

• Bike Index's February 2018 recoveries!

  Finally, a 'light' month here at the Bike Index. If blizzards keep people from stealing bikes, hey, great...

• Bike Index's January 2018 recoveries!

  So it turns out that a great way to start out the new year is to recover a bunch of stolen bikes

• It's almost spring!!!!

  Bike season is about to ramp up but so will thefts

• Let's talk about "secure" bike parking ...

  A whole lot of bikes are being stolen from "secure" bike parking in apartments and businesses. Let's talk about that for a sec.

• A few tips for the well-meaning driver

  If I drive you nuts on the road, be informed before you try to hurt me.

• New Year's Resolution Diaries day 8: Commuting

  How I rediscovered my motivation to commute via bike

• Bike Index's December recoveries

  December 2017 at the Bike Index - aka "a whole lotta' folks are on the Naughty list ... "

• Bike Index's November recoveries

  Baby, it's cold outside ... but that doesn't stop bike thieves. Or, thankfully, the Bike Index...

• 2017 year in review and it's awesome

  Happy new year! We summarize 2017 and talk about some of the awesome stuff continuing on into 2018 that will benefit us, and you.

• University of Pittsburgh partners with Bike Index to protect campus bicycles

  The University of Pittsburgh and Bike Index.org have announced a partnership to protect Pitt’s cyclists.

• Bike Index's October recoveries

  The long-overdue backstory on all the stolen bikes Bike Index helped recover in October 2017 ...

• Bike Index's September recoveries

  The long-overdue story on all the stolen bikes we helped recover in September of 2017 ...

• Bike Index review: Boomerang Cyclotrac - GPS tracking for bikes

  Taking a look at a GPS tracker for bikes - the Boomerang

• We ride bikes too

  We built Bike Index for a reason

• Bike Index Partners with Renters and Homeowners Insurance Company, Lemonade

  “Hey Lemonade! You guys protect stuff. I’m with Bike Index. We protect bikes! I want to chat!” Bike Index’s newest partnership with Lemonade - the renters and homeowners insurance company that actu...

• Bike Index's August recoveries

  Who recovers stolen bikes? Bike Index recovers stolen bikes! Especially in August :/

• Boise Police Department joins with Bike Index to help protect bikes

  The BPD will use Bike Index to register, protect, and recover bikes.

• Bike Index's July recoveries

  The summer avalanche of stolen bikes continues ...

• Bend reduces bike theft by 60 percent with help from local shops, bait bikes, and Bike Index

  Summertime in Bend, OR is synonymous with bike season. But with more bikes on the road, that means a corresponding rise in bike thefts. After noting a drastic increase in bike theft over the years,...

• Bike Index's June Recoveries

  Who recovers stolen bikes? Bike Index recovers stolen bikes. Especially in June!

• UWPD recruits Bike Index to protect campus from bike theft

  The University of Washington marks Bike Index's second official university partnership

• Bike Index's May 2017 recoveries!

  It must be summer because we're registering - and recovering - a ton of bikes

• VerifiR - the embeddable bike tracking tech that we've been waiting for

  We've been waiting for this kind of tech to hit the market for YEARS - and I'm excited to say, we're helping out with the cause :)

• Bike Index and VerifiR partnering to protect bikes with state-of- the art technology

  VerifiR’s embedded tracking chips enable instant verification of bike ownership via the Bike Index

• Bike Index's April 2017 recoveries!

  The always-interesting back stories on all the bikes Bike Index helped return in April 2017

• Bike Index's March 2017 recoveries!

  Whew - Spring is creeping in, which means more bikes are on the road, which means registrations, thefts, and recoveries are all seeing an uptick. Numbers across the board are creeping up - we’re no...

• Bike Index's February 2017 recoveries!

  The backstory on the 27 wonderful bikes that Bike Index helped recover in Feb. 2017!

• Bike Index—Now a Nonprofit

  Bike Index is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit!

• Iota - a tiny tracker with huge potential

  The Bike Index checks out the Iota Tracker with an eye towards bike tracking, future hacking, and more

• Bike Index's January 2017 recoveries :)

  The backstory on January 2017's stolen bike recoveries.

• Bike Index's December 2016 recovery stories!

  The backstory on December's stolen bike recoveries

• Bike Index's November 2016 bike recoveries

  The backstory on all our November 2016 stolen bike recoveries ...

• BIKE INDEX TOPS 100K BIKES

  Bike Index celebrates its 100,000th registered bike! The Bike Index is proud to announce it has registered its 100,000th bike as of November 15, 2016. “One hundred thousand bikes is a huge mileston...

• Bike Index's October 2016 bike recoveries

  Stellar recoveries, great stories of collaboration, cute bike-recovery selfies, and tons of stolen bikes recovered in October 2016

• Bike Index partners with LeadsOnline!

  The largest bike registration system in the US partners with the largest pawn search system in the US to fight bike theft

• Bike Index's September 2016 bike recoveries

  Cargo bikes! Sexy Farady Porteurs! Salsas! Surlys! Blue cycles! WE GOT EM' ALL IN SEPTEMBER, Y'ALL COME ON IN

• Bike Index's August 2016 bike recoveries

  Who finds stolen bikes? Bike Index finds stolen bikes. In August 2016 we found quite a few ...

• Bike Index's July 2016 bike recoveries

  All of Bike Index's July stolen bike recoveries!

• Bike Index's June 2016 bike recoveries

  June was busy - we’ve been doing all sorts of fun registration events in Seattle, Bend, and lighting up a steady stream of new Bike Index partners

• Bike Index's May 2016 bike recoveries

  The backstory on all of our May 2016 stolen bike recoveries

• Bike Index's April 2016 bike recoveries

  Summer's finally here and bike thefts are on the rise ...

• Bike Index's March 2016 recoveries!

  ... in which we help recover some very, very beautiful bicycles.

• Bike Index's February 2016 recoveries!

  Cargo bikes! Flea market recoveries! An assist to SPD that results in arrests! This month has it all ...

• Bike Index's January 2016 recoveries!

  Some great bike recovery stories and photos from our stolen bike recoveries in January 2016

• Bike Index welcomes our newest partner - Stolen Bikes NOLA!

  Stolen Bikes NOLA - a nonprofit in New Orleans, Louisiana - is the latest in a growing list of partners using Bike Index to combat bike theft

• Bike Index's December 2015 recoveries

  There's nothing better than helping return stolen bikes right before Christmas!

• Bike Index's November stolen bike recoveries

  Who finds stolen bikes? Bike Index finds stolen bikes ... 44 of them this month, to be exact

• Bike Index returns @pedalpt's Viva Kilo! Score!

  Who finds stolen bikes? Bike Index finds stolen bikes!

• Bike Index's October 2015 bike recovery stories

  How thirty five stolen bikes made it home thanks to Bike Index during Oct. 2015.

• Our September 2015 bike recoveries

  Quite possibly our busiest month yet ...

• Bike Index welcomes a new partner - CyclingUtah.com!

  CyclingUtah.com will provide bike registration, stolen bike listings, and stolen bike search to the Intermountain West

• Here's an epic nine month bike recovery story ...

  How a stolen bike tip turned into a nine month investigation - and nabbed a local burglar

• Our August 2015 stolen bike recovery stories

  It’s been another busy month here at the Bike Index - here are the stories of last month's recoveries.

• This month's stolen bike recoveries - July 2015 mega-update!

  The story of how twenty one stolen bikes made their way home via Bike Index

• This week's recoveries (June 29th edition)

  Eleven formerly stolen bikes are now back with their owners - here's how it happened ...

• This week's recoveries (June 14th edition)

  "Hi, I have your bike - I found it half submerged in a partially frozen lake..."

• This week's recoveries (June 1st edition)

  The stories—a bike returned on the victim's birthday, a recovery via Instagram and a bike theft victim catching a shop selling multiple stolen bikes.

• This week's recoveries (May 18th edition)

  The behind-the-scenes look at the Bike Index stolen bike recoveries from the past few days

• Mapping bike thefts at map.bikewise.org

  Getting our bike theft data onto a map is difficult enough that until now, I just threw up my hands and hoped someone else would do it. But good people say maps are cool and that we should use them, so it's map time.

• Bike Index welcomes our newest partners: WeBikeEugene, BikeCleveland, BikingToronto, and BikingInLA!

  The Bike Index lights up four more registration partners with our Wordpress plugin :)

• How NOT to buy a stolen bike online

  An awesome, helpful infographic that explains how to avoid buying a stolen bike on the internet.

• Here's how our last week's worth of bikes got recovered

  The behind-the-scenes look at this weeks recovered bikes

• Bike Index and Spinlister join forces to get bike theft victims back on bikes!

  PDX Bike Index users get $30 off rentals with Spinlister! OMG!

• Four Bikes That Look Like Their Owners

  With its killer blue and khaki combo, this stallion can only belong to…

• Want to support the Bike Index? Here's how:

  Want to help support the Bike Index? Good - we could use your help! :) Here are several ways you can help in our fight against bike thieves: Option 1: You can donate online We’d always appreciate a...

• Five Things That Are Allegedly "Just Like Riding a Bike"

  Someone once said sailing is just like riding a bike. Unless you’ve never been sailing before. And if you fall off your bike, the chances of drowning or being eaten by sharks or touched by...

• Six Things That Are Absolutely Not Bikes

  This website is not a bike.

• This is how it works: the story of two recent stolen bike recoveries

  We don’t write up every single bike recovery we get here at Bike Index, but there are two recent ones that really sum up how the community, bike theft victims, the Bike Index, and local police are ...

• Six Bikes That Are Just CRUSHING Sunset Right Now

  This bike is.

• Lightspeed Retail + Bike Index = win

  A major update to our POS integration, now an official tool for Lightspeed

• Bike Index evaluates TrackR - with an eye towards tracking bikes

  Bike Index reviews TrackR, a low power Bluetooth tracker, with an eye towards bike theft

• BikeReg: an Android app for the Bike Index

  Guest Post by Darren Whanger, BikeReg creator The Bike Index now can be accessed via an Android app! Tyee Software has created a mobile app for phone and tablet usage named BikeReg, which allows fo...

• Thanks to Seattle Bike Blog - our newest stolen registration partner!

  The Bike Index sends a huge shout-out to SeattleBikeBlog.com for becoming our newest partner in the fight against bike thieves! Starting today, SeattleBikeBlog.com is running our popular Stolen Bik...

• Bike Index recoveries

  Over 2,123 stolen bikes recovered, and counting. So how is it, exactly, that we've recovered so many bikes? Is there a secret?

• Providing the largest and most effective bicycle registry - ever

  Bike Index and StolenBicycleRegistry.com merge, forming registration powerhouse

• Search the Bike Index using @IsItStolen on Twitter

  Announcing the @IsItStolen Twitter bot that tells you if bikes are stolen

• Default bike data, now automatically included

  Bike Index automatically fills in the default components, information and a stock photo when a bike is registered

• Introducing BikeBook.io

  BikeBook - open source bicycle comparison and research

• Heritage bicycles are now automatically registered

  How the Bike Index posts bikes to our API with Google Apps script

• Bike Index, official registry of St. Louis

  St. Louis is now using the Bike Index as their official city registry! We are excited about this opportunity to work with Mayor Slay and Trailnet to provide St. Louis with a bike registration that works.

• PDF registration certificates

  The Bike Index now has PDFs for every registered bike! Since one of the biggest reasons for registering bikes is to have a verified record of ownership, we’re excited to offer a way to download and...

• Bike Index holiday contest alert!

  Contest alert! In the spirit of making the remaining “shopping days” before Christmas a little less stressful for you guys, we’re kicking off a holiday contest today. To enter, all you have to do i...

• We made it all the way to Oregon and back without one dysentery scare

  It can be hard out there on the trail, but it’s significantly easier with 21st century amenities. We completed our West Coast tour last week with a 31-hour drive from Portland back to Chicago, maki...

• We did it!

  Updates from the second half of our West Coast promotional tour. We’re finally home from our two-week West Coast promotional tour. Somehow we made it through the 31-hour drive, the snow, and an unf...

• Like Johnny Appleseed, but for bikes

  Updates from the first week of our West Coast promotional tour. It’s hard to believe, but it’s officially been a week since we left Chicago for our big West Coast road trip. Since then, we’ve drive...

• Updates on Kickstarter rewards, Madison trip, and other exciting news!

  Happy (belated) November! Things have been moving really fast since our last blog post and we have a lot to share with you. It’s all fun, but let’s start with the most fun stuff for you guys—the re...

• #DoRightByYourBikeContest winners!

  A few weeks ago we announced our #DoRightByYourBike photo contest, asking our followers to submit photos of themselves treating their bikes right. We got some great submissions and we’re excited to...

• Visit from Copenhagen

  Mark Thyrring contacted us through Twitter because he was excited about the Bike Index Kickstarter and was visiting Chicago. He’s a photographer and videographer from Copenhagen (which he will tell...

• We made our Kickstarter goal!

  We are humbled and unbelievably thankful for our backers’ contributions and support! Our Kickstarter project was amazing. From people in other countries demanding we provide service outside the US,...

• New month brings a lot of exciting new things for the Index!

  It’s October! That means the weather is getting (slightly) cooler, the temporary Halloween storefronts are opening, everyone’s ditching their flip-flops for actual shoes, and almost everything is p...

• Bike Index hits the airwaves

  Outside the Loop featured the Bike Index on their radio show today! Mike Stephen talked with Bike Index founder Seth Herr on the 363rd episode of the award-winning “almost above ground” radio show....

• Happy Friday, everybody!

  Hey guys, it’s Friday! Happy Friday. It’s been exactly a week (and a few hours) since we launched our Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 in 29 days to fund Bike Index. We’ve already raised $9,04...

• Our Kickstarter launched! Boom! Let's get this thing started!

  Today might be Friday the 13th, but The Bike Index team is feeling pretty lucky today! As of this afternoon, The Bike Index Kickstarter campaign has officially launched, and we’re already at $5,671...

• Registering bikes at Pitchfork

  This past weekend was Pitchfork Music festival, the first large event where the Bike Index registered bikes. Our team greeted people as they locked up their bikes, explained the benefits of registr...

• Bike Index Shirts!

  We solved a critical problem facing the Bike Index yesterday: Our lack of Bike Index clothing! The back of the shirt has the web address. The front has the Bike Index logo. We’re going to be out ad...

• Privacy on Bike Index

  The Bike Index wants to be the best place to save and share your bike on the internet. For us, prioritizing user privacy and being transparent in our policies is a required part of that.

• Illustrations

  We wanted to do something cute, since it’s the internet, but didn’t want to seem too cute, since we are anti-bike-theft-warriors. We decided on lances and shields and medieval era imagery. Medieval...