Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
A bike just like my son's turned up on CL just a few days ago. We got kind of screwed because we had lost the original sale receipt and didn't' have the serial number to put on the police report. LBS provided us with what we thought was a correct number that went on the report. I did find the original sales receipt about four days ago, and the two serial numbers don't jive. The chances that our bike got sold at a pawn shop becuase we had a serial number snafu are very high. I did get the police report updated. Anyway, it turns out the bike in question was exactly the same, a stock Haro but the numbers didn't match.
One thing I did the first of this year was to take a photo of all my bikes, and post them under my profile on BikeJournal.com, along with the serial number of each bike. A nice, easily accessible reference...

Tom