Bicycle Registration Policies

Why We Do This

• Theft Deterrence
  Thieves are less likely to steal a registered bike since its owner can easily be identified. When you register your bicycle at this link, it can be recovered anywhere in the U.S. and traced back to you.

• Recovered Bikes Returned to Owners
  Registering your bike greatly increases the likelihood it will be returned to you if recovered. Bicycles that are registered have a much greater chance of being returned to you if they are lost or stolen and then recovered; bicycles that are not registered have a limited chance of being returned to you if they are recovered.

• Identification of Rider
  Bicycle registration also aids in the identification of the bicycle owner in case of an accident. Many bicyclists don’t carry identification with them. What would happen if you became involved in a bike crash? It could take hours for emergency personnel to make positive identification and contact someone for you. If your child’s bicycle is registered, you can be contacted quickly. Do yourself a favor: register your bicycle(s) today. 

Parking of Bicycles

These regulations are intended to prevent bicycles from parking in areas of high pedestrian traffic, areas that could cause a safety hazard, or places that could be disruptive to other people.

1. Bicycles must be parked in the bicycle racks/pods provided. They must not be parked on lawns or sidewalks or chained to trees, light poles, fences, benches, etc. Bicycles are to be parked in a manner that does not block pedestrian paths or building or emergency access and must be secured with a commercially available lock to prevent theft.
   
   Bicycles may be secured to handrails as long as they do not block pedestrian paths or create a safety hazard, only if there are no bicycle loops or racks within the immediate area. Bicycles that are improperly parked may be impounded by the cutting and removing of a locking device when necessary. Of particular concern are bicycles parked on disability access ramps. Bicycles found on these ramps will be immediately removed and impounded. The cost of the lock is not reimbursed by the university.
   
   
2. Bicycles that are considered abandoned will be impounded. They may be removed by cutting the locking device, when necessary.
   
   
3. Bicycles may not be parked, stored or left standing in the lobby, hallway or room of any academic or administrative building except within private offices with the approval from the department head or building monitor. Policies and procedures governing the storage of bicycles inside any facility owned, operated or managed by university housing, may be found in the current Residence Hall Handbook. 

Abandoned Bicycles

Campus Public Safety will tag bikes that appear inoperable/abandoned. After two weeks any bikes that still have the tag attached will be subject to impoundment for 60 days. If the bike is not claimed within the 60 days, it will go to a local charity or be put into use at the discretion of Plant Service’s needs.

Throughout the year, inoperable/abandoned bicycles are collected and delivered to the impound lot. Operable bicycles must have:

• A frame
• Two wheels
• Two of these components:
  • handlebars and stem
  • pedals and cranks
  • seat and seat post

To reclaim a bicycle, owners must email security@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2090. Owners must have:

• Complete description of bicycle
• Date when bicycle was last seen
• Last location of where bicycle was parked 

Bicycle Roundup

• Spring semester: Bikes are tagged the Monday after graduation week and rounded up the following Friday. Registered bicyclists will be contacted if their bike is tagged during end-of-semester roundup.

At the end of the spring semester a university-wide bicycle "clean-up" is done. Bicycles that are illegally parked, unregistered or inoperable are impounded. Bicycle racks need to be cleared to do routine maintenance to the bicycles racks and surrounding areas.

In order to accommodate the maintenance of the bicycle rack areas, bicycles may not be stored on campus during the summer semester. If you are not going to be on campus using your bicycles during the summer, please remove it. Bicycle claims can be made at the Campus Public Safety/parking services office.

Students using their bikes during summer must move their bikes to the nearest rack of their summer housing.

Bicycles NOT picked up from the impound lot within 60 days will be forwarded to the local charities at the discretion of the Campus Public Safety department. Junk bicycles will be recycled.