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Security marked bikes

  • 13-08-2014 4:54pm
    #1
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Was just reading this which mentions the police security marking bikes.

    Any idea what is involved and if something similar goes on here?


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  • #2
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    godtabh wrote: »
    Was just reading this which mentions the police security marking bikes.

    Any idea what is involved and if something similar goes on here?

    Iv'e just had a few pet/cat ID chips made to hide around my bike.

    Won't stop it being stolen but might help it being found.

    Im a genius.


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Iv'e just had a few pet/cat ID chips made to hide around my bike.

    Won't stop it being stolen but might help it being found.

    Im a genius.

    and modest


  • #4
    jinkypolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭jinkypolly


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Iv'e just had a few pet/cat ID chips made to hide around my bike.

    Won't stop it being stolen but might help it being found.

    Im a genius.

    So how does that work, if your bike is stolen are you then relying on someone on the off chance taking your bike to the vets for identification?


  • #5
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    godtabh wrote: »
    and modest

    That was tongue in cheek :) I was sure it might have been suggested before?
    jinkypolly wrote: »
    So how does that work, if your bike is stolen are you then relying on someone on the off chance taking your bike to the vets for identification?

    No. If I ever see it again I have a small chance of identifying it by getting it scanned. Probably by a vet though, tbh :) but I may be able to get a cheap scanner from china or somewhere. It's a simple enough technology.

    Just hide the chips under the bar tape and wherever. Glue one to the handlebar caps. Best to hide them to parts that won't get "swapped off" Like the saddle.

    Shimano have yet to come back to me with my suggestion of adding personal details to their electronic systems.

    Regardless of all the above, the cat that I lost two weeks ago is coming home tomorrow evening.

    Turns out that stray I was looking after for all these months, that went missing, actually had a chip in it.

    Got returned to it's original owners after being missing for 4 months!

    But hasn't settled and they want me to have it.

    I'm over the moon and my missus is beside herself with joy.

    I will now have my 5:30 am coffee buddy back!


  • #6
    marty_crane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭marty_crane


    Bike security marking used to go on here, the Community Guards did it but it fell by the wayside. There have been a couple of initiatives since, most notably one in the north inner city some time ago, but they appear to be ad hoc arrangements.


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  • #7
    Belfunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭Belfunk


    You could try one of these https://home.thetileapp.com/


  • #8
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    This is a cool idea, but only works in America I think? Ideally all bikes and cars should have these. Your bike gets stolen. You open your phone and see it going around town on a map. It stops. You drive there, maybe with the guards, get your bike back. So long as you keep some sort of invoice of your bike the guards should have no problem taking it off the person, even if they bought it of the theft unknowingly.

    http://bikespike.com/

    There's also this one.

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


  • #9
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Iv'e just had a few pet/cat ID chips made to hide around my bike.

    Won't stop it being stolen but might help it being found.

    Im a genius.
    genius or evil genius as in Pinky & the Brain, whose sole goal in lie, To Take Over The World! Dum Dum Dum!!!!!!


  • #10
    Tayto2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 597 ✭✭✭Tayto2000


    I tagged mine with tags from these guys a few years ago:

    http://www.bikeshepherd.org/

    This crowd do marking and registering now as well:

    http://www.cyclesure.ie/about_us/register_your_bike/

    The GPS trackers should work here, you just need an Irish SIM card because they communicate by SMS text. Bikespike wants a sub to use their website though.


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