Episode 19 – Keeping your bike safe in the Pacific Northwest
We attended the Bike Theft and Indexing Panel Discussion in May at Metier in Seattle along with a number of local bike security advocates and local law enforcement. In this episode we hear from the UW Police Department, the King County Sheriffs office, and the folks behind BikeIndex.org on how to …
May Day Mystery – Cryptography Part I
On May 1st of 1995, a student at the University of Arizona named Bryan Hance was reading through the local college paper when he came across a full page advert which contained a cryptic mix of images, maps, languages, and equations. Coincidentally on the same day of May 1st for the next two years,…
E222 – Bryan Hance: Bike Index
Bryan Hance is one of the people behind the Bike Index, a database of bicycle serial numbers and traits that helps tie people to them when a theft occurs. We talk about the website, the situation on thefts (especially in … Continue reading →
Bike Registration That Works
This episode’s guest is Bryan Hance, co-founder of Bike Index, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a universal bike registration service. Their database is used and searched by individuals, bike shops, law enforcement, and other apps giving everyone the ability to register and recover bicycles.
Bryan creat…
Bikes Stolen In the Bay Area Show Up On Global Blackmarket
Hundreds of bicycles stolen in the Bay Area and other places have ended up for sale in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. A recent article in Wired follows the efforts of a co-founder of Bike Index, a site where people can report bike thefts, to track down a reseller who set up a supply chain of stol…
The Wild Tale of Constru-Bikes & Their Massive Bike Theft and Trafficking Ring
Bryan Hance is a bike enthusiast and web developer who combined those two interests in co-founding Bike Index, a database that tracks ownership to help recover bikes that end up stolen. Through that work, Bryan uncovered a sprawling bike theft and trafficking operation, which he traced back to one …
Tracking the underground bike theft economy
A few years ago, bike enthusiast Bryan Hance got a tip. A whole bunch of expensive bikes that were stolen in the Bay Area had suddenly turned up ... for sale on a Facebook page in Mexico. The revelation started Bryan down a years-long investigation where he would uncover an intricate, large-scale c…
How the Bike Index finds stolen bikes in Oregon and the US
The Bike Index was started in 2013 and allows people to register bicycles for free and report them when they have been stolen. The nonprofit has helped recover more than 14,000 bikes. Most recently, the group has been tracking an elaborate bike-theft pipeline that leads back to Mexico. It estimates…
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How One Man Makes Millions Trafficking Stolen Bikes & No One Can Stop Him
While investigating bike theft for a video, we spoke with Bryan Hance, a U.S.-based cybersecurity expert and co-founder of Bike Index, a nonprofit dedicated to recovering stolen bikes. With years of experience, he's seen it all—but his biggest case took nearly four years to unravel, exposing a sing…
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