The Wild Tale of Constru-Bikes & Their Massive Bike Theft and Trafficking Ring (Ep.227)

The Wild Tale of Constru-Bikes & Their Massive Bike Theft and Trafficking Ring (Ep.227)
Bryan Hance (left) and Chris Solomon (right)

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Bryan Hance is a bike enthusiast and web developer who combined those two interests in co-founding Bike Index, a database that tracks ownership to help recover bikes that end up stolen. Through that work, Bryan uncovered a sprawling bike theft and trafficking operation, which he traced back to one man, operating out of Jalisco, Mexico — and the story only gets crazier from there. So we sat down with Bryan and Chris Solomon, who wrote a piece for Wired on Bryan’s work, to hear all about it.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Bike Index & Bryan’s interest in bike theft (2:14)
Constru-Bikes’s operation (7:46)
What did this network look like? (13:41)
How Bryan uncovered Constru’s trafficking (22:20)
Arrests in the US (29:11)
How to shut this down? (34:56)

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