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Bicycle Registration

  • 09-01-2019 1:09pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭


    What's the advice of the cycling forum on this?


    Media reports constantly repeat anti-theft advice to register your bicycle without any details of how.

    So far as I can find there is no official national bicycle register.


    A private company of unknown credibility claims to "work in partnership with the Gardai[sic]" and invites people to provide a fair amount of personal information on bikeregister.ie.


    The Gardaí do ad-hoc bicycle registration from Bridewell and Donnybrook Garda stations at infrequent ceremonies around Dublin city.


    I already have my bicycle, including frame number, registered with the manufacturer for warrenty purposes. Should I do more?


Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    http://bikeregister.ie/

    As for what else to do? i recommend you invest in at least two descent locks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    Gardai used to register the serial for you. I remember doing it a few years back at the RDS - they said it'd be entered into pulse should it ever be knicked and end up in their possession they could check... whether that's still a thing I don't know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Take a photo of you, with the bike and displaying the purchase invoice. Use that to prove ownership when the gardai recover your bike.


  • Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭oLoonatic


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Take a photo of you, with the bike and displaying the purchase invoice. Use that to prove ownership when the gardai recover your bike.

    Good shout!


  • Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭com1


    Does anybody know who owns Bikeregister.ie?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    I've a bit of paper in the seat tube of my bikes with name/address/phone number. Unlikely to be found by a thief but would be helpful in proving ownership if recovered. Along with photos/receipts/serial/etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Thanks all for the pointers everyone, some excellent advice

    I'm a bit reluctant to share my personal information on bikeregister.ie without some reassurance that it will be safe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    i recommend you invest in at least two descent locks.
    And look up locking techniques, I am constantly cringing at seeing these high end locks on bikes and then seeing I could nick the bike using a swiss army knife or a hack saw from dealz, or sometimes need nothing at all (locked on the top bar of the frame to a fairly low post with no sign on it so just needs to be lifted off it).

    Also the 2 locks might be of different types, so different tools are needed to attack both of them.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 47,973 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    CrankyHaus wrote: »
    I'm a bit reluctant to share my personal information on bikeregister.ie without some reassurance that it will be safe.
    will see if they respond:

    https://twitter.com/JSWeetabix/status/1083679571294253056


  • Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭oLoonatic



    Their domain doesnt seemed to be registered to anyone either. Very odd.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 47,973 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    it's done via IEDR, and i'm not sure how tightly they manage what info is made public.


  • Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭circler


    The site doesn't even have a valid ssl certificate!


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,981 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Does anyone know if the Garda bike registration scheme is still operating?


  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭site_owner


    i registered mine with bikeregister.com and paid for the marking kit.

    regarding the gardai, this was in display in halfords just before christmas.

    506018.jpeg


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,981 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Thanks, I found the relevant Garda forms on Scribd

    https://www.scribd.com/user/124011917/Geoffg2000

    Let's see if I can put them up here;

    I wonder if that Sgt is still in Donnybrook!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    I remember looking into this a few years back. At that time, the Garda scheme seemed to depend on whether or not your local station had a Garda who was interested in operating the system.
    There were at least two private schemes with very similar names, one being the Irish branch of a UK scheme and the other purely local. Both offered a free registration system and paid marking stickers/engraving. I think if there was just one scheme, I probably would have signed up but, as critical mass was an issue for some reason, I let it drift. Took plenty of photos of the bikes, manufacturer's numbers and receipts just in case.


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