Is the Bike Register worth it??

[mjr]

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. [...]

And it cost you handing your personal data and bike details to a company that has sneaky marketing!

Avoid, and ask your police commissioner why the force has so many spare officers that they can work for a private company for free.

Note your own frame numbers and take photos, then let the police have the info for NICHE if a bike is ever stolen, as @Drago said.

 

[Punkawallah]

IDK. I understand if your bike is stolen, found and returned (regardless of condition) insurance companies could decline to pay out.

 

[mjr]

on an "event "a bobby punched my postcode and house number on the bottom bracket

Oh the old punching kits! How many paint jobs and even frames were trashed by those? Clueless police kept digging those out well into the era of carbon fibre being widespread.

 

[TomDW]

For me in London I've got 2 Bike Register stickers on my cheapo single speed. It's just another small thing to dissuade a thief if I lock it outside Brixton tube. Never had one stolen.

I'd never lock up a bike worth more than £500 in London.