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They do not give numbers, but I also doubt that "largest" claim.

The USA is a lot larger, but the Netherlands has a national register of every bicycle reported stolen to the police (https://fdr.rdw.nl; very much spartan interface). They do not give numbers, either, but at 100k+ reported bicycle thefts a year and running since 2008, there must be over half a million stolen bicycles in their database. Google tells me that newly sold bikes also end up in that database. I don't see how they would need that data, but the site reportedly _started_ with over 4 million bicycle numbers.



The Japanese registry claims to have 70,000,000 bikes on record in 2007[1].

[1] 自転車産業振興会によると2007年(平成19年)度で全国で7000万台を超えており http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%B2%E7%8A%AF%E7%99%BB%E9%...

(looking for a better source than Wikipedia but it eludes me at the moment!)




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