Just wanted to share this tidbit about a Trek 520 the SBR helped recover. The new owner found the SBR listing for the bike in question, and ...
... I posted a vague message on Craigslist about a Black 520 and that I was looking for 'Richard'. I got a reply .. from a friend of his and we got togther this week. Rich works at a local bike shop. They have had my name on the sign all week "Thanks lucky Lyndon" I have a friend for life! He had ridden that bike from VA. to OR., and it got stolen ~9 months ago. He had given up on ever seeing it again. This is a GREAT SERVICE you provide! I am broken hearted to not have that sweet bike, but I am glad it is home where belongs.
Some of you might think Lyndon is a rarity, but tons of honest people out there have used the SBR to reconnect a questionable bike they bought with its original owner. So here's to Lyndon, and everybody like him.
www.baitbike.com = win
I also had a pretty interesting email exchange this week with Jason Cecchettini, President of Pegasus Technologies, Inc. and the newly-launched baitbike.com. Jason created a pretty ingenious way for police to track and hunt down 'bait bikes' in order to proactively combat bike theft, and he'll apparently be posting some stolen bike recovery footage over at baitbike.com. Judging on how popular the Canadian baitcar.com online videos have been on YouTube, I told him he'll probably have a public relations home-run on his hands with those videos ...
You've probably read all the geeky stuff I've put online about GPS, RFID, and other various ways to potentially track and find stolen bikes, so I'm into this kind of technological solution. While Jason's product is both expensive and only available to police, it's nice to see this kind of stuff floating around out there to help combat bike theft. Jason says he offers loaners to cops that want to test drive the bait bikes, so any interested cops out there should drop him a line!
Detroit = doing it wrong
Some of you may have read about the city of Detroit's efforts to get everybody to register their bikes with local police to aid in stolen bike recovery. Unfortunately, the way they wanted to get people to register was by writing them $55 ticket if their bikes weren't registered. This genius idea didn't go over too well.
It looks like they're now beating the stupid out of this one, but props to Detroit's Bike Riders United for raising a protest about this one.
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