The story of how Bryan Hance became one of the most celebrated and cynical investigators of multinational bike theft began in the spring of 2020, in the dark heart of the pandemic. “We could do the whole thing again.” Bryan Hance is co-founder of Bike Index, an online bike registry that holds the descriptions and serial numbers of about 1.3 …
Bryan Hance was sitting in his basement one Sunday afternoon in June 2020 when he got an email about a secondhand bike for sale. Since it was started in 2013, Bike Index has helped recover more than 14,000 stolen bikes, from Sacramento to Saskatchewan and as far away as Australia. The tipster pointed Hance to a Facebook page where there …
