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"Thief brought it to my local bike shop and they recognized it and took it back for me!"

"My bike has an included tracker, so I was able to get an approximate location of where it was. From there, it was just dealing with the unhoused individual who had it. After 40 bucks and some Mcdonalds he gave it back."

"Thanks to BTVrecovery it was found and returned to North Star Sports, who called us"

"UAPD Investigators were able to locate and arrest the thief. My bike was (luckily) dumped back on campus and I was able to recover it, and justice was served!!"

"Someone bought my stolen bike in what seemed to him like a sketchy scenario, so he looked up the serial number when he got home to discover that it had indeed been stolen. We met up at a mutually convenient location to hand over the bike."

"I made lots of posts about it (Facebook, Nextdoor, & Reddit). I included my Bike Index report in some of the posts. People from Reddit spotted it and that lead to me getting a picture of the thief. I made more posts with that picture. Then someone from the Madison Bike Community page saw my post and got my bike back from the thief."

"A friend called me and said that she recovered my bike that someone left it thrown in the parking lot of the lodge. Thank God"

"Someone saw my bike hanging in the same stall over the course of a couple of weeks/months in a bike storage room at a business complex. They got curious, checked the serial number on Bike Index, found my information, and gave me a call. It was missing for 13 months, I had given up on getting it back. I'm so grateful for the person for looking out, being curious, and calling."

"Thank you Bike Index and the BVT bike recovery group!"

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