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The bike owner generally supplies detailed bike information to the registrar such as: manufacturer, model, frame style, frame material, wheel diameter, serial number, color, frame size, and accessory details. Contact information pertaining to the owner is also included in the registration process.
Giant manufactured frames (1980-1986*): With a date code generally stamped on the dropout on the drive side of the bike, these frames used a two part serial number in a G MM YY format, where: G = Giant. MM = month (01 = Jan, 02 = Feb, etc.). YY = year (80 = 1980, 81 = 1981, etc.). Example: G0384 is a Giant-manufactured frame from March 1984
Bike Shepherd (formerly Bike Revolution), based in London, United Kingdom (and California, U.S.). As of June 2018 currently inactive. Stolen Bikes in the UK, UK Peer-based bike register. Immobilise, a free UK National Property Register for bicycles and more. Hungary. BikeSafe.hu - paid service recommended and used by national police.
The assets of Fuji America, as well as the worldwide distribution rights to the Fuji bicycle brand, was purchased by Philadelphia-based [1] Advanced Sports International.. In 2004, Ideal Bike Corporation, Taiwan's third-largest complete-bicycle maker, acquired 17% of Advanced Sports International Asia, which markets the Fuji brand of bicycles in Asia.
This page lists notable bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.. Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control.
According to Frank J. Berto, [2] [3] Raleigh Industries of America had been looking at a Japanese source for their Grand Prix model. Raleigh America ordered 2,000 bicycles from Tano and Company of Osaka but their parent company in England, TI-Raleigh, disapproved — concerned that the Tano-built bikes were too well made and would have outsold their own British bikes.
In 2016, Bike Index announced integration with LeadsOnline, [8] [9] [10] one of the USA's largest pawn search systems used by law enforcement officers to uncover stolen goods. According to Bryan Hance of Bike Index, "one of the first 'hits' was a bike that was stolen in Salt Lake City, Utah and pawned at a shop in Nevada — 400 miles away." [11]
The fee included a bike sticker with a registration number which made it possible for law enforcement officers to contact the owners of found or recovered bikes. On January 31, 2017, Project 529 (based in Seattle, Washington) acquired the National Bike Registry and merged the NBR registration database into its own to create the largest bike ...