by Gavin Hoover
2024-10-08T05:00:00-0500
Topics: Bike Recovery, Bike Theft
Topics: Bike Recovery, Bike Theft
Curious how the Bike Index can help you bike shop - and your customers?
It's simple, actually - Bike Index provides a fast, free, modern platform to register and protect bikes - along with the largest network of anti-theft crusaders and a huge database of stolen bike information. And we’d love to work with you!
Bike Index tackles a very fundamental part of the bike theft problem - the lack of universal and accessible bike registration data. By giving shops and bike owners free tools to register bikes, verify ownership and recover stolen bikes, we help you protect your customers - and their rides - for free, with little time investment on your end.
We’re painfully aware of how epidemic bike theft is, but we’re actually doing something about it. In fact, we're doing tons: We built the largest, most widely used, free bike registration system in the world. We also wrote a point-of-sale plugin to make it even easier for bike shops to register bikes. We created community partners, joined allegiances with law enforcement and industry partners, and we're on track to hit 1.5million bikes by the end of the year!
Bike Index is the place to list and recover stolen bikes, period. With over 1.3million registrations, 10k+ recoveries, and 500+ partners, Bike Index connects shops, riders, biking organizations and local law enforcement into a massive, country-wide bike protection network - which thousands of searches every day. Futhermore, our law enforcement and pawn system partners use Bike Index data to identify and recover stolen bikes across the country, even when thieves move them across state lines. Our network of bike shops, individual riders, and advocacy organizations also provides a live, constant stream of actionable and successful bike recovery tips and information.
But don't just take our word for it - you can read about some of the thousands of bikes we’ve already helped recover at bikeindex.org/news
Protecting bikes isn’t just good karma - it’s good business. It strengthens your relationships with customer after they’ve left your shop and strong relationships translate to repeat business and referrals.
Want to connect your shop with Bike Index? Contact us - gavin@bikeindex.org