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A problem I can see is that I think the two original (ebay) gps units weren't real time units, they record information and download it to your computer. If your bike was stolen, how would you get the info from the unit to yourself, computer/pda/mobile to find out where it was? Who would run the service? would it be automated? would you have to flag the fact that your bike had been stolen before you could track where it was? or where it was going?
Also the power problem, couldn't it be powered somehow like a dynamo light by pedalling, maybe connecting it in someway to the bottom bracket, or is that making it too complicated? One advantage of putting it there would be to make it difficult to remove, since you'd have to take out the bottom bracket to get to it.
Its a really good idea, since a load of us are spending as much money on a bike as you would on a cheap secondhand car, knowing where it is, and being able to find it again if it does get stolen could prove priceless...