Ever have you bike stolen?

Posted 25 Nov 2011 to News by barry

While overall crime rates are falling, bike thefts have increased by a significant 54% since 2008.  In many cases, the frustration of having your bike stolen can be compounded by the difficulty encountered when trying to provide the necessary information to the Gardaí such as serial number, sales receipt etc. Although bike theft can still be reported, without the identification details the chances of reuniting a stolen bike with its owner are very slim.

To combat this problem, ThinkBike, a bike shop based in Rathmines, are launching a new service called ThinkBike Security, which will provide a database of important information such as:

  • The serial number of your bike
  • A photo of you, the customer, with your new bike.
  • A copy of your purchase receipt.

With this information there should be no questions over ownership.

The service is available to all customers who purchase a new bike at ThinkBike and also all past customers. The service will also be available to non-existing customers for a small charge.

With ThinkBike Security customers can provide proof of purchase, serial number and photo to the Gardai and Insurance Companies and customers would be more likely to get their bikes back once they have been recovered by Gardai.

To find out more about this security initiative, check out the ThinkBike website

 

 

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- December 22, 2011 at 2:14 pm

[...] and the cycling site has lots of content to assist. The blog has been quite busy too with posts on bike security, Dublin’s first Skyride, the lunchtime Bike Ride in June and [...]

Bob

- February 23, 2012 at 1:59 am

The Dublin Bicycle Depot has been building a bicycle registry for the last two years, it’s free to the public. They dont give the details to any third parties other than the gaurds. Their are also two gaurda stations Donnybrook and another on the north side(Druncondra I think) where you can register your bike for free too and the number of gaurda stations taking registrations is set to increase. Many shops have an inhouse registry for a small fee 2euros or so but unfortunitly they will not co-operate with each other to have a unified registry as they seem to beleave that their registry holds value as a marketing research tool to be sold on or used in-house. Some shops dont even give their registry to the gaurds and expect you to contact them for the information when you need it. Above all this service should be united, as in one registry, with the advantage not only behing that if your unlucy enough to have your bike stolen if recovered by the gaurds the’ll be able to contact you without you even having to report it stolen and also so the public can cross check a frame number to see if a bike has been reported stolen when purchasing a used bike.

Regards,
Bob

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