The French have made it mandatory to have your bike marked

[simongt]

Registering bikes is a good idea, but as everything 'the powers that be' come up with, it's the proper establishing and administering of said plan that would be a logistic nightmare, quite apart form the setup and running costs.

 

[DRM]

Engraving a carbon frame will do it no favours, aluminium frames will suffer from the white powder corrosion where the paint has been damaged, and why each new bike comes with a frame number, just record that, what a stupid unnecessary system, Ill thought out by well intentioned idiots

 

[Tom B]

Even if implemented, this will be about as effective and enforced as the UK Microchipping of dogs Database, ie a total waste of time and effort.

That reminds me I've been meaning to update the dogs microchip for the last 8yrs. Trouble is it is in the mrs' ex's name and to her old address.

 

[Tripster]

Wouldn't it be a bit of a faff to inform the registration people about selling a bike to a new owner, having to get the new address and details and then updating said details?

All new Triumph motorcycles are datatagged at registration. If you sell the bike the new owner fills in the form and then sends it off to datatag for details registering. Its quick and simple. Done it many times. Surely they could do something similar for cycles. Many bikes have loads of pin head size id tags inside engine parts, frame, dropped inside tank and all show up when scanned to avoid bikes been broken down for parts and unable to identify.

 

[yo vanilla]

We had something similar in my hometown as a child (80's, 90's). You can see the license sticker here on my old 1993 Mongoose (seatpost):

They were issued by the police station, by request so not mandatory. IDK if they've ever really helped recover a bike, but they were nearly impossible to remove

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

It's just the French being a bunch of dickheads, as usual. They'll also selectively choose whether to obey or enforce it, again as usual. They can do whatever stupid shoot they want, luckily there's the English Channel between them and us and we are on the good side of it.

 

[Archie_tect]

That reminds me I've been meaning to update the dogs microchip for the last 8yrs. Trouble is it is in the mrs' ex's name and to her old address.

Could a vet access and update the chip without having to extract it from the dog?

 

[DRM]

Could a vet access and update the chip without having to extract it from the dog?

As far as I understand they just change the details in the database

 

[Tom B]

.... I wonder if they could just update the dog.

Problem is it is in someonelses name so they'll probably cite some nonsense about DPA and not do it.

He's getting old and knackered now it's probably not worth it.