how to 'trace' a stolen bike using GPS equiment?

[edprush]

Originally posted by: erwin1978
You'd be too late by the time you walk out the building to find your bike gone. The pros would've dismantled the bike within hours and most likely any tracking device you have hidden in the frame discovered as well.

Not where I live. These are just kids that steal bikes, ride them for a few days them leave them in a ditch.

 

[Dessert Tears]

As Web Fuels Bike Thefts, Victims Turn Vigilantes, Washington Post
McKenna activated the Global Positioning System device in emergency mode and soon was able to track the bike on a map on his computer. The device worked for about 55 hours before the battery died.

Victim's blog

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Hey!!! I thought of something - the animal tracking collars that they use. You can't get a gps reading, and you need to do some telemetry to find it, but that would work. The kids in one of the other classes in my high school use such devices to monitor where deer and turkeys are in the area. The range is a little limited; just a few miles, but that might be enough to track down your bike.

Those are outdated. You can get one that uses GPS now.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: edprush

Originally posted by: erwin1978
You'd be too late by the time you walk out the building to find your bike gone. The pros would've dismantled the bike within hours and most likely any tracking device you have hidden in the frame discovered as well.

Not where I live. These are just kids that steal bikes, ride them for a few days them leave them in a ditch.

I think too many people believe this. I mean this happens back at home where people who steal things aren't impoverished and do so for fun.

I've had friends who lost bikes only to find them again. Here in Berkeley, people only lose bikes and to never find them again. If you're using your $2000 bike as a main mode of transportation, you need to rethink what you're doing. Using my $400 bike as the main mode of transportation on campus was already a big mistake. I locked it properly and included the wheels too so no one's going to just detatch the wheels. The only possible mistake I could think I made was probably in making some sort of knot that undid itself. I don't think my 4 years of high school I've ever messed up tying my bike but when it came to college... bleh. Everything that could go wrong went wrong.... Since I don't want a dirt cheap walmart bike with no quality I have yet to buy myself a new bike.