We have a cop looking for a device which he can put in or on a bike as a trap so he can catch folk who steal it. Does anyone know of a suitable product that I could obtain for him?

Theres one that’s built into a smallish rear blinky light but I can’t remember where i’ve seen it before

http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/

in the head tube so easily removed but will do the job.

the rear light one;

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/gps-bicycle-tracker-launches/010301

Sweet, thanks very much.

Technically entrapment?

Technically entrapment?

Presumably if they use the tracked bike to identify the thief and follow him to a stash of other nicked bikes then they can do him for nicking those instead thus avoiding the hurdle of entrapment?

That would work 🙂

As far as I know Garmin do a little USB key sized jobby now with a 3G chip in it, works pretty well.

It’s only entrapment if the Police ask you to go and break the law? Setting up a trap is different?

This is a (long) story involving various GPS trackers on bikes:

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/Who-Pinched-My-Ride.html?page=all

The Garmin one is the GTU10: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=387&pID=67686

This is a (long) story involving various GPS trackers on bikes:

Good that. Ta.