[BikeLongmont] City of Longmont Bike Registration

[Buzz Feldman]

Craig,
At High Gear Cyclery, we license bikes for the city.  As a result, I am often in contact with the staff in the City's Records Dept.  If you can let me know with whom you spoke, I'll follow up on it.  What office at the Safety & Justice Center did you go to?

Buzz Feldman
High Gear Cyclery
Longmont, Colorado
www.highgearbike.com
"Experience the Fun"

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Craig D. Smith" <craig at powersmith.net>
Reply-To: craig at powersmith.net
Date:  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:43:03 -0700

>I got a new road bike this year and decided to register it with the City of
>Longmont.  It is a free service and is supposed to help the recovery rate in
>the event of theft.  Went to the police station and gave them the
>particulars on the bike and my contact info and they gave me a numbered
>sticker for the bike in return.  So far, so good.  The woman there told me
>to attach the sticker to the seatpost of the bike.  That is their preferred
>position.  I told her that I change seatposts from time to time and that a
>thief can EASILY remove the seatpost from the bike leaving it without any
>registration ID.  Instead, I attached the sticker to the back of the seat
>tube right below the seatpost, which seemed much more sensible to me.  Am I
>missing something or is there a good reason for putting it on the seatpost?
>If there is consensus, perhaps Bike Longmont can suggest that the City
>change their preferred location for the sticker.