GPS traces used to target bikes

Thanks Dave - I've got it covered.

I've just installed a piranha infested moat to ward off thieves.

Also I have an excellent rooftop sniper as an active deterrent.

Is Strava an activity? I thought that was cycling?

Riding bicycles is an activity. Putting your gps data from a mini computer into another computer to 'share' it with other people looking at computers, well that's a separate pastime. And it looks really tedious from where I'm standing. Now it looks as if it's also a bit stupid.

Just sayin'.

wouldn't this work the other way, leave your garmin on the bike when it gets nicked and hey presto a nice trail back to theifs front door ?

They are 'getting out'.. the evidence is there in B&W where B=bike and W=waypoints.

Glad the irony of my posturing wasn't lost on you.

Riding bicycles is an activity. Putting your gps data from a mini computer into another computer to 'share' it with other people looking at computers, well that's a separate pastime. And it looks really tedious from where I'm standing. Now it looks as if it's also a bit stupid.

Just sayin'.

You make it sound far more laboured than it really is.

This 'sharing' with computers thing probably wont catch on anyway.

Glad the irony of my posturing wasn't lost on you.

I don't do ironing. Dry clean only.

Even more stangely is that on some sites like ridewithgps etc you can actually 'register your gear' and state what bike you have!! Seems a remakably stupid thing to do, yet people (generally with very very nice road bikes to boast about) seem to do it on a regular basis.....

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Yes, we'll have none of this "fun" or "social interaction", all training rides should be recorded on vellum using a quill pen, then we eat the vellum THEN BURN OUR STOOLS!

No-one else is to know the secrets of our riding, NO ONE!

Even more stangely is that on some sites like ridewithgps etc you can actually 'register your gear' and state what bike you have!! Seems a remakably stupid thing to do, yet people (generally with very very nice road bikes to boast about) seem to do it on a regular basis.....

On the other hand... the smart people are insuring their bikes and if someone were to use the gps tracking data to help remove that unsightly last year's model from a certain flat allowing a shiny new bike to be stored in its place... well...

a have a veritable menagerie of rare, wonderful and highly coveted bikes-i never ride them, never let anyone see them and I damn well won't tell you what they are or where, but they make you lot look like a bunch of colourblind hobos. Get it right up ye's.

A very very cunning plan.....

On the other hand... the smart people are insuring their bikes and if someone were to use the gps tracking data to help remove that unsightly last year's model from a certain flat allowing a shiny new bike to be stored in its place... well...

so the 50 Colnago CLX 3.0's with full Di2 that I've just registered at Boris's address then carefully cross posted to archaic latvian and estonian cyclo-tourism sites are to no avail?

I had heard that Boris likes a fancy ride, but I thought that was something else...

Anybody fancy a Parlee Z5, and a Sycip ss 29er? Security should be less tight now that he's out of work.

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It's such obvious common sense not to post your rides from home that one is tempted to say that anybody who loses a bike as a result of this MO probably deserves it. Aside from pinpointing the location of a shed full of tasty bikes, all this publication of ride data can also show a pattern of activity useful to the less specialised burglar, i.e. every time the weather's nice on Sunday morning, the house occupant will be miles away.

when I was working in a bike shop the popo turned up, they were doing a rounds of all the bike shops in our area about a case. Basically a guy rode almost like clockwork out from ambleside, out and round, was targeted by a 'young couple' who deliberately knocked him off on a pass (so low speed, to avoid damaging bike etc), then offered to take him home/ to hospital.
Only they actually knocked him off hard enough to fracture his pelvis and snap a wrist, nice! then headed back out, took the bike and gone...
Rumour was it had happened a number of times in south lakes. Was years ago now, but still.

So websites where you can check for expensive bikes, get mugs shots and then potentially follow people he from meetings would be a bad idea too right?

(you can see where I'm going with this one right?)

http://www.lfgss.com/thread4-100.html

Anybody fancy a Parlee Z5, and a Sycip ss 29er? Security should be less tight now that he's out of work.

Bush clocking 666 Miles on his SS...

Where's this guy?