This thread reminds me of an idea I had for a Kidical Mass (or some other) ride:
Meet at a park, preferably one with some free asphalt. For the first x minutes (while kids play), have a station where people can measure their bikes and find serial numbers, etc. Bonus points if we can get the police there to do immediate registration. Encourage people to take pictures of their bikes, measure them* and write down the serial numbers — for my family, we’d just send ourselves emails with the pics and info, etc, since we can always search that.
*The measure thing would really be for family bike set-ups — long-tails, long-johns and trail-a-whatever set-ups are (obviously) different than standard bikes, and it’s hard to find good info about how long/wide these set ups are. We could easily set up a station where people could park the bike at a designated spot, and we’d stripe out the various widths and lengths in concentric rectangles, so you could see how wide things are and where.
Would people be interested in this?
