Get Your Impounded Bike Back

F&S and the Parking Department perform a bicycle roundup each year after Commencement to help clear bike racks and accommodate new riders for the fall semester. All bikes left on campus property over the summer are tagged with an orange sticker to help identify abandoned bicycles. Bikes were collected if an owner did not remove the sticker during that period.

If your bike was impounded during this year’s roundup, you can retrieve it now. The deadline to reclaim your bicycle is Monday, September 30. After that date, all unclaimed bicycles will be donated to the Campus Bike Center and The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign.

How to Reclaim Your Bike

To reclaim your bike, you must take the following steps:

• Email bike@illinois.edu with your bicycle information, including where you left it, the make/model of the bicycle, color, and serial number (if possible).
• Indicate if the bicycle was registered or not. If it was, you will need to provide a registration sticker ID.
• Include a picture of your bicycle, preferably when unlocked, to show ownership.

Once a bicycle is identified in the current inventory, more information will be provided on picking up your bike. If the bicycle was not registered, you will be required to register it in accordance with the University Bicycle Ordinance ($10 fee). There is also a $40 retrieval fee that directly supports the abandoned bike collection process.