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Registro Bici: Bogotá's Mandatory Bicycle Register

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Registering a bicycle has been compulsory in Bogotá since 2022, and the announced sanction for riding unregistered is a police warning. Coverage reached 41% of the city's bikes.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run bySecretaría Distrital de Movilidad de Bogotá
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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Bogotá runs Colombia's only municipal bicycle register — one record per bike, carrying the frame serial number, photographs and a sworn ownership declaration. Decreto 790 de 2018 created it; Decreto 242 de 2021 made registration compulsory from 2 January 2022, though the sanction announced for riding unregistered is only a police warning. Officers check serial numbers against the register at roadside stops and in raids on resale shops, and anyone can look up a bicycle before buying it second-hand. 552,920 bicycles were on the register by 30 April 2026, but the security secretariat put coverage at 41% of the city's bikes in July 2025. Recovery is the harder half: 612 stolen bicycles were recovered in the first five months of 2026, a fifth of those reported.

Live 📅 since 2018

📊 Impact

612 stolen bicycles recovered in January–May 2026, a 20% recovery rate; of the 2,404 recovered between 2021 and early 2024, only 545 had been entered in the register (Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad figures released to Bogotá city council).

🎓 Lesson

A register can only close the loop for objects that are on it. Three quarters of the bicycles Bogotá recovered up to 2024 were unregistered, and compulsory registration backed by nothing heavier than a warning still left most of the city's bikes off the books.

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↗ Observatorio de Movilidad de Bogotá — Tablero CiclistaOperator dashboard. States the register was created by Decreto 790 de 2018 and made mandatory by Decreto 242 de 2021; lists its published contents (registered users by gender, zone and locality; bicycles by locality, type and price range), names 'Registro Bici' as the data source with a daily update frequency, and marks data available from 2018. Aggregate only — explicitly 'sin liberar datos personales', no per-bicycle export.
↗ Registro Distrital de Bicicletas — the register itself (SDM)The live system. Automated fetch on 26 July 2026 returned only the page title (JavaScript application), so its fields and the public 'Consultar información de bicicleta' lookup were verified through city and press descriptions rather than the portal itself.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — bicycle registration becomes compulsory in 2022 (4 January 2022)Carries the sanction sentence: 'A partir del 2 de enero de 2022, las autoridades de policía impondrán las medidas correctivas de amonestación a quienes no cumplan con el requisito.' The instrument for 'mandatory' is a warning, not a fine.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — Decreto 242 de 2021 explainerPublished 20 September 2021Dates the decree to 20 September 2021 and states cyclists must carry the registration certificate digitally or physically for competent authorities to validate. Names the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad with the Secretaría de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia as issuers of the certificate. States no sanction.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — not registering breaches the coexistence code (6 July 2022)Cited for a contradiction, not for support: this page describes a 'multa tipo cuatro… equivalente a $533.000 por 16 SMDLV', which conflicts with the amonestación announced in January 2022. City communications do not agree on the sanction, so the entry claims only the warning.
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↗ El Tiempo — how to register a bike or check it is not stolen before buyingPublished 19 June 2026Source for the public per-object lookup: a 'Consultar información de bicicleta' query returns whether a bike is flagged stolen. Sources differ on whether the key is the frame serial or the assigned sticker number, so the entry says only 'look up a bicycle'.
↗ Semana — bicycle thefts in Bogotá fall 13.8% in 2026 (3 June 2026)Carries the exact registration count: 'al 30 de abril de 2026, en la capital hay 552.920 bicicletas registradas'. Also: reports down 13.8% to May 2026; robbery with force 1,248 (Jan–May 2025) to 465; bikes taken while parked 818 to 95. Figures attributed to the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad and the Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad.
↗ Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad — 886,000 daily bicycle trips (3 June 2026)Operator release. Source of 'la plataforma supera las 550.000 bicicletas registradas' and 'se han recuperado más de 2.400 bicicletas hurtadas' under the current administration, quoted by secretary Claudia Díaz. The 2,400 figure is deliberately kept out of the snippet and impact: it is near-identical to the 2,404 recovered in 2021–early 2024 that the city council reported in April 2024 for a different period, and no method is published for either.
↗ El Nuevo Siglo — Bogotá recovered only 20% of stolen bicycles this year (24 July 2026)Independent press carrying the impact figure sentence: 612 bicycles recovered in the first five months of 2026, a 20% recovery rate, from Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad data obtained through a derecho de petición by concejal Diana Diago. Also: Suba 465, Engativá 410, Kennedy 341 reports; Santa Fe recoveries fell from 80 to 22; the secretariat keeps no separate database for electric bicycle and scooter theft.
↗ Concejo de Bogotá — alert: only 20% of stolen bicycles recovered this year (24 July 2026)The council's own release behind the El Nuevo Siglo report. The site returned HTTP 503 to automated fetches on 26 July 2026, so its content was verified through El Nuevo Siglo and search indexing rather than a direct read.
↗ Infobae — only 10 of every 100 stolen bicycles are recovered in Bogotá (24 April 2024)The single most load-bearing counterweight, from councillor Rolando González: of 27,000 bicycles stolen 2021–2024 only 2,404 were recovered, and of those 2,404 only 545 were registered in Registro Bici. Also gives 332,890 bicycles registered at that date, two years after registration became compulsory.
↗ The Bogotá Post — Register your Bogotá bicycle to reduce thefts (14 July 2025)Independent English-language press describing the enforcement chain: bicycles are recovered 'at police check points around the city, where cycle serial numbers and descriptions are checked against ownership details, and in raids on shops reselling bikes'. Gives 847 recovered by mid-July 2025 and 280 arrests for fencing, and the security secretariat's estimate that 41% of the 1,135,000 bicycles circulating in the city are logged.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — 90 stolen bicycles recovered in January 2025 (6 February 2025)Dates the register's start ('desde que empezó a funcionar la página Registro Bici Bogotá en el año 2018') and gives ~430,000 registered as of early 2025, which brackets the 552,920 figure of April 2026. City claim of a 57% fall in January theft reports year on year is operator-reported and not used.
↗ Datos Abiertos Bogotá — bicycle dataset searchChecked for a machine-readable release. No Registro Bici dataset exists on the city portal; the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad's published bicycle datasets (counting sensors, cicloparqueaderos, shared-bike stations) carry CC BY 4.0. The register is therefore public as a per-object lookup and an aggregate dashboard, not as an open dataset — the entry is not tagged open-data.

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  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — Decreto 242 de 2021 explainer
  2. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — bicycle registration becomes compulsory in 2022 (4 January 2022)
  3. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — not registering breaches the coexistence code (6 July 2022)
  4. Infobae · pressInfobae — only 10 of every 100 stolen bicycles are recovered in Bogotá (24 April 2024)
  5. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — 90 stolen bicycles recovered in January 2025 (6 February 2025)
  6. The Bogotá Post · pressThe Bogotá Post — Register your Bogotá bicycle to reduce thefts (14 July 2025)
  7. Semana · pressSemana — bicycle thefts in Bogotá fall 13.8% in 2026 (3 June 2026)
  8. Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad · city governmentSecretaría Distrital de Movilidad — 886,000 daily bicycle trips (3 June 2026)
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  1. El Tiempo · pressEl Tiempo — how to register a bike or check it is not stolen before buying
  2. El Nuevo Siglo · pressEl Nuevo Siglo — Bogotá recovered only 20% of stolen bicycles this year (24 July 2026)

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Decreto 790 de 2018 created it; Decreto 242 de 2021 made registration compulsory from 2 January 2022
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What the mapping says
The city's own notice, published 4 January 2022, states that registration became compulsory from 2 January 2022 and names the decree behind it.
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Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alcaldía de Bogotá — bicycle registration becomes compulsory in 2022 (4 January 2022)
Claim 2 clm-5edd14d60b023c8b descriptive
though the sanction announced for riding unregistered is only a police warning
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What the mapping says
The city notice that made registration compulsory says police will impose the corrective measure of a warning on those who do not comply.
Caveat
The city's own later notice of 6 July 2022 contradicts this: it says failing to register can draw a non-commutable type-four fine of COP 533,000. Which of the two is operative is unresolved here.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alcaldía de Bogotá — bicycle registration becomes compulsory in 2022 (4 January 2022)
Claim 3 clm-d6aea0a064b2db8e quantitative
552,920 bicycles were on the register by 30 April 2026
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What the mapping says
The report gives the register's total as of 30 April 2026, attributing it to the authorities.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Semana — bicycle thefts in Bogotá fall 13.8% in 2026 (3 June 2026)
Claim 4 clm-a5185f67bda75bda quantitative
the security secretariat put coverage at 41% of the city's bikes in July 2025
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What the mapping says
The July 2025 report attributes the 41% coverage estimate to the security secretariat and gives the denominator it used.
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Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Bogotá Post — Register your Bogotá bicycle to reduce thefts (14 July 2025)
Claim 5 clm-398e09e05d22af27 quantitative
612 stolen bicycles recovered in January–May 2026, a 20% recovery rate
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What the mapping says
The report gives the recovery count for the period and frames it as a fifth of the bicycles reported stolen, in answer to a councillor's formal request for information.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. El Nuevo Siglo — Bogotá recovered only 20% of stolen bicycles this year (24 July 2026)
Claim 6 clm-025d2007ac9a0592 quantitative
of the 2,404 recovered between 2021 and early 2024, only 545 had been entered in the register
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impact · verbatim
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What the mapping says
The report gives both numbers: 2,404 bicycles returned out of 27,000 stolen between 2021 and 2024, of which only 545 were registered.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Infobae — only 10 of every 100 stolen bicycles are recovered in Bogotá (24 April 2024)
Claim 7 clm-14be044f52581e6d quantitative
Three quarters of the bicycles Bogotá recovered up to 2024 were unregistered
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What the mapping says
545 of 2,404 recovered bicycles were registered, so roughly three quarters were not — the arithmetic the lesson states in words.
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The proportion is our own division of the two figures the source gives.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Infobae — only 10 of every 100 stolen bicycles are recovered in Bogotá (24 April 2024)
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14 source dossiers

Observatorio de Movilidad de Bogotá — Tablero Ciclista observatorio.movilidadbogota.gov.co · background

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Operator dashboard. States the register was created by Decreto 790 de 2018 and made mandatory by Decreto 242 de 2021; lists its published contents (registered users by gender, zone and locality; bicycles by locality, type and price range), names 'Registro Bici' as the data source with a daily update frequency, and marks data available from 2018. Aggregate only — explicitly 'sin liberar datos personales', no per-bicycle export.

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Registro Distrital de Bicicletas — the register itself (SDM) registrobicibogota.movilidadbogota.gov.co · background

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The live system. Automated fetch on 26 July 2026 returned only the page title (JavaScript application), so its fields and the public 'Consultar información de bicicleta' lookup were verified through city and press descriptions rather than the portal itself.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — bicycle registration becomes compulsory in 2022 (4 January 2022) bogota.gov.co · 2 linked claims

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Carries the sanction sentence: 'A partir del 2 de enero de 2022, las autoridades de policía impondrán las medidas correctivas de amonestación a quienes no cumplan con el requisito.' The instrument for 'mandatory' is a warning, not a fine.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — Decreto 242 de 2021 explainer bogota.gov.co · background

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Dates the decree to 20 September 2021 and states cyclists must carry the registration certificate digitally or physically for competent authorities to validate. Names the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad with the Secretaría de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia as issuers of the certificate. States no sanction.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — not registering breaches the coexistence code (6 July 2022) bogota.gov.co · background

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Cited for a contradiction, not for support: this page describes a 'multa tipo cuatro… equivalente a $533.000 por 16 SMDLV', which conflicts with the amonestación announced in January 2022. City communications do not agree on the sanction, so the entry claims only the warning.

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El Tiempo — how to register a bike or check it is not stolen before buying eltiempo.com · background

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Source for the public per-object lookup: a 'Consultar información de bicicleta' query returns whether a bike is flagged stolen. Sources differ on whether the key is the frame serial or the assigned sticker number, so the entry says only 'look up a bicycle'.

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Semana — bicycle thefts in Bogotá fall 13.8% in 2026 (3 June 2026) semana.com · 1 linked claim

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Carries the exact registration count: 'al 30 de abril de 2026, en la capital hay 552.920 bicicletas registradas'. Also: reports down 13.8% to May 2026; robbery with force 1,248 (Jan–May 2025) to 465; bikes taken while parked 818 to 95. Figures attributed to the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad and the Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad.

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Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad — 886,000 daily bicycle trips (3 June 2026) movilidadbogota.gov.co · background

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Operator release. Source of 'la plataforma supera las 550.000 bicicletas registradas' and 'se han recuperado más de 2.400 bicicletas hurtadas' under the current administration, quoted by secretary Claudia Díaz. The 2,400 figure is deliberately kept out of the snippet and impact: it is near-identical to the 2,404 recovered in 2021–early 2024 that the city council reported in April 2024 for a different period, and no method is published for either.

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El Nuevo Siglo — Bogotá recovered only 20% of stolen bicycles this year (24 July 2026) elnuevosiglo.com.co · 1 linked claim

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Independent press carrying the impact figure sentence: 612 bicycles recovered in the first five months of 2026, a 20% recovery rate, from Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad data obtained through a derecho de petición by concejal Diana Diago. Also: Suba 465, Engativá 410, Kennedy 341 reports; Santa Fe recoveries fell from 80 to 22; the secretariat keeps no separate database for electric bicycle and scooter theft.

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Concejo de Bogotá — alert: only 20% of stolen bicycles recovered this year (24 July 2026) concejodebogota.gov.co · background

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The council's own release behind the El Nuevo Siglo report. The site returned HTTP 503 to automated fetches on 26 July 2026, so its content was verified through El Nuevo Siglo and search indexing rather than a direct read.

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Infobae — only 10 of every 100 stolen bicycles are recovered in Bogotá (24 April 2024) infobae.com · 2 linked claims

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The single most load-bearing counterweight, from councillor Rolando González: of 27,000 bicycles stolen 2021–2024 only 2,404 were recovered, and of those 2,404 only 545 were registered in Registro Bici. Also gives 332,890 bicycles registered at that date, two years after registration became compulsory.

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The Bogotá Post — Register your Bogotá bicycle to reduce thefts (14 July 2025) thebogotapost.com · 1 linked claim

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Independent English-language press describing the enforcement chain: bicycles are recovered 'at police check points around the city, where cycle serial numbers and descriptions are checked against ownership details, and in raids on shops reselling bikes'. Gives 847 recovered by mid-July 2025 and 280 arrests for fencing, and the security secretariat's estimate that 41% of the 1,135,000 bicycles circulating in the city are logged.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — 90 stolen bicycles recovered in January 2025 (6 February 2025) bogota.gov.co · background

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Dates the register's start ('desde que empezó a funcionar la página Registro Bici Bogotá en el año 2018') and gives ~430,000 registered as of early 2025, which brackets the 552,920 figure of April 2026. City claim of a 57% fall in January theft reports year on year is operator-reported and not used.

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Datos Abiertos Bogotá — bicycle dataset search datosabiertos.bogota.gov.co · background

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Checked for a machine-readable release. No Registro Bici dataset exists on the city portal; the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad's published bicycle datasets (counting sensors, cicloparqueaderos, shared-bike stations) carry CC BY 4.0. The register is therefore public as a per-object lookup and an aggregate dashboard, not as an open dataset — the entry is not tagged open-data.

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🇹🇭 Bangkok's Million-Tree Register · Bangkok Both registers publish the numbers that undercut them: Bangkok counted 35% trees, Bogotá 545 registered among 2,404 bicycles recovered. 🇨🇴 Bogotá's Shared Bike System (Tembici) · Bogotá The city keeps a compulsory register of privately owned bicycles while owning none of the 3,300 bikes in its own shared system. 🇨🇴 Pico y Placa: Plate Rationing You Can Pay to Escape · Bogotá Both are plate-style registers, weighted differently: the driving permit is priced and camera-enforced, the bike record risks a warning.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Registro Bici: Bogotá's Mandatory Bicycle Register” — Bogotá, Colombia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bogota-registro-bici/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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