http://www.thehillishome.com/2010/07/fighting-crime-capitol-hill-style/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thehillishome.com/2010/07/fighting-crime-capitol-hill-style/comment-page-1/#comment-3842 dynaryder Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:15:31 +0000 http://www.thehillishome.com/?p=10496#comment-3842 Glad you got your bike back. Now lock it up! Almost every case I've heard of bike theft has been a bike locked improperly(cable lock) or wasn't locked because it was in a yard/on a porch/in a bike room. DC repealed bike registration about 3yrs ago. You can pay to have it registered at the National Bike Registry(http://www.nationalbikeregistry.com/),but MPD does not subscribe to it. Make sure you record your frame's serial number(if you need help fiding it,it's usually underneath the bottom bracket/where the pedals meet,if you can't find it ask a bike shop for help) and keep a copy of the receipt. Pictures also help,but aren't always legal proof(unless you have a pic of the serial number). For more locking info,go to http://www.mechbgon.com/lock/index.html and http://www.missinglink.org/Pages/bike_locking.html . You can also ask at bike shops or get literature from the Washington Area Bicyclist Assoc(http://www.waba.org/). Glad you got your bike back. Now lock it up! Almost every case I’ve heard of bike theft has been a bike locked improperly(cable lock) or wasn’t locked because it was in a yard/on a porch/in a bike room. DC repealed bike registration about 3yrs ago. You can pay to have it registered at the National Bike Registry(http://www.nationalbikeregistry.com/),but MPD does not subscribe to it. Make sure you record your frame’s serial number(if you need help fiding it,it’s usually underneath the bottom bracket/where the pedals meet,if you can’t find it ask a bike shop for help) and keep a copy of the receipt. Pictures also help,but aren’t always legal proof(unless you have a pic of the serial number). For more locking info,go to http://www.mechbgon.com/lock/index.html and http://www.missinglink.org/Pages/bike_locking.html . You can also ask at bike shops or get literature from the Washington Area Bicyclist Assoc(http://www.waba.org/).

]]> http://www.thehillishome.com/2010/07/fighting-crime-capitol-hill-style/comment-page-1/#comment-3721 Sharee Lawler Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:45:37 +0000 http://www.thehillishome.com/?p=10496#comment-3721 Oh how I dream of coming across my bike in such a fortuitous way. Especially now that I'm stuck on foot in the heat! You and Julia have given me a spark of hope ... or at least an excuse to put off rummaging for a "new" old bike. Oh how I dream of coming across my bike in such a fortuitous way. Especially now that I’m stuck on foot in the heat! You and Julia have given me a spark of hope … or at least an excuse to put off rummaging for a “new” old bike.

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