You'll be entered into all of our giveaways, plus you'll receive an occasional email to let you know about new products and sales. The bicycle's serial number will be accompanied by a bar code: Serial Number. “It is a numbers game,” Mr Hughes said.
FREE SHIPPING on non-bike orders $40+ (cont. Most bicycles have their serial number engraved beneath their bottom bracket, but sometimes serial numbers are found in other places. Specialized serial numbers typically start with the prefix “WSBC,” “WUD,” “STT,” or “STE.” If you can’t find a serial number, you can still register your bicycle with DPS. Skip to content Search. Eastern Bikes has 20+ years in the BMX bike industry creating complete bikes, frames, forks, tires and everything else to build a quality ride.
There is no universal registration of bike serial numbers. From $25.94 All serial number records before 1948 were lost in a factory fire. Enter a frame number or unique BikeRegister ID below, and click on the magnifying glass.
This can often be through classified ad sites or indeed 2nd hand bike stores. The majority of serial numbers are located under the bottom bracket where the two pedal cranks meet.
BikeChecker is a FREE service for people purchasing a second-hand bike, which allows you to check that the bike is not listed as stolen on the BikeRegister Database. Thieves often try to sell on stolen bikes in the quickest and easiest way. I had once owned a 1986 world tour .I was wondering about the baseball after the serial #. Your best bet is to figure out the manufacture of the frame, and see if they have a lookup for it.
Modern Cannondale bikes feature the bicycle's serial number on the underside of the frame: Location of the bar-coded serial number sticker. Search topic: #1 2009-02-03 7:47am.
The next part of the serial number is eight numeric digits. “The more people we get on to this, the more successful it will be.”WA Police Assistant Commissioner Brad Royce said officer often seized dozens of bikes a day but in the past had found it difficult to differentiate them based on descriptions alone.“With most second-hand property we hold it for 12 months but with bikes it is shorter just because of the sheer number,” he said.“Now we have a registration system that all WA police officers can get in and check bikes as they pick them up. The diagram (below) indicates five of the most common serial number locations.
Thieves often try to sell on stolen bikes in the quickest and easiest way. A new online register of WA bicycles has been created to curb the State’s surging number of thefts and help reunite stolen bikes with their owners.Developed by Crime Stoppers WA, Bikelinc operates similar to vehicle registration in allowing owners to log their contact details and the serial number of their bike in a secure database so that, if stolen, police can easily identify the bike’s rightful owner.More than 9,000 bikes have been stolen across WA in each of the past five years — an increase of more than 60 per cent compared with a decade earlier.Previously, the majority of those stolen that are later seized by police have not been matches to an owner and are instead donated to charity or sold for scrap.Crime Stoppers WA chief executive Vince Hughes said the Bikelinc website was free to use and was already showing success having helped a second-hand retailer identify a stolen bike someone tried to sell.People buying second-hand bikes privately can also search the serial number to check if has ever been stolen.“It is a numbers game,” Mr Hughes said. If there is no serial number near the cranks, you should check other common places including the front headset or rear stays.