Bike Shepherd

bike shepherd is a non-profit, global bicycle registration provider. the web platform and site offers free global bike registration, global search database, stolen bike listings and free stolen bike alerts, delivered at a local level using geo-tagging technology. its mission: to register bikes in an effort to deter and reduce the $3 billion global bike theft trade. the company uses mobile apps, qr tags and social networking in this effort and has developed pulse id tags as the latest weapon against bike theft. each set of three pulse id labels placed on the bike are tamper-resistant, with unique qr embedded tags built in. pulse id tags act as a theft-deterrent. bicycle thieves and their handlers are reluctant to deal in trackable and traceable goods. efforts to remove the tags can damage the bike and leaves evidence the bike has been tampered with.