Time Waster
Veteran
A local police event in my village was a bike marking scheme based around the Bike Register. I did almost all our bikes (well my son's and most of mine) I once did it to my old commuter through a police register with a purple ink stencil. When it got nicked the same constabulary did not know about that scheme!!
So I am a little sceptical on thee grounds that will the police actually use it and will it be effective in any way if your bike gets stolen? Also, if you bought a secondhand bike, do you check the frame number? Would you buy a secondhand bike, check it and if you find out it was stolen would you take it to the police? Or would you enjoy the bike in the knowledge that nobody is going to check it is stolen?
Do you think it is a scheme that is worth doing if they com your way?
Anyway, I am always on for a freebie and all it cost me was a couple of rides up a very, very steep hilll. One of those rides was on my Recumbent which I had not ridden for a year or two that had flat tyres and the smallest chainring was not playing nicely with me. I realised when I got home that the boom had been shortened and my legs were really too bent with the pedal at the furthest point. Still, I got three oof my bikes marked and my son's. No harm and perhaps it will prove useful if it got nicked.
So I am a little sceptical on thee grounds that will the police actually use it and will it be effective in any way if your bike gets stolen? Also, if you bought a secondhand bike, do you check the frame number? Would you buy a secondhand bike, check it and if you find out it was stolen would you take it to the police? Or would you enjoy the bike in the knowledge that nobody is going to check it is stolen?
Do you think it is a scheme that is worth doing if they com your way?
Anyway, I am always on for a freebie and all it cost me was a couple of rides up a very, very steep hilll. One of those rides was on my Recumbent which I had not ridden for a year or two that had flat tyres and the smallest chainring was not playing nicely with me. I realised when I got home that the boom had been shortened and my legs were really too bent with the pedal at the furthest point. Still, I got three oof my bikes marked and my son's. No harm and perhaps it will prove useful if it got nicked.
