Get Your Impounded Bike Back!

Each summer, F&S and the Parking Department perform a bicycle roundup to clear bike racks and make room for new riders for the fall semester. After Commencement, 254 abandoned bikes were collected when owners did not remove the orange sticker.

If your bike was impounded during this year’s roundup, you can retrieve it now. The deadline for reclaiming your bicycle is Friday, September 25. After that date, all unclaimed bicycles will be donated to the Campus Bike Center and The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign.

What You Will Need to Do

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

• Email Bike at Illinois with your bicycle information, including where you left it, the make/model, color, and serial number (if possible).
• Indicate whether the bicycle was registered. If it was, provide the registration sticker ID.
• Include a photo of your bicycle, preferably with it unlocked, to show ownership.

If the bicycle is identified in the current inventory, you will receive pickup instructions. You must also register it under the University Bicycle Ordinance ($10 fee), plus a $40 retrieval fee also applies to support the abandoned bike collection process.