It more important to know the serial number with a picture of the serial number and a picture of the bike. When the bike is stolen, you provide the serial number and then the serial number goes in either a local database or NCIC (National Crime Information Center) or both. NCIC is a national database that is used by all law enforcement in the nation. If a bike is stolen in San Fran and shipped to New York and recovered as stolen in NY, the police there can look up the serial and find the agency that reported it stolen. This occurs with any item stolen that has a serial number. Police are not going to actively look for your bicycle. But if they catch someone stealing a bike or find a bunch of bikes in a bust (drug bust or something of that nature) they can match the serial numbers to stolen bikes in the database as previously mentioned. Hopefully your servicing police department puts your bike into NCIC and I would call to make sure they do. If they do not put it in you have nothing because it cannot be matched by any other department.
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