Originally Posted by
gauvins
WRT to the tag placement, one user wrote that he
put his airtag inside the stem (Airtags are 1.23 inch in diameter, so they won't fit inside a typical steerer, but they just might inside your stem).
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I do not have any carbon frame bikes. And all my stems are metal. I think putting a tracker inside a Faraday cage is not going to work very well.
Originally Posted by
gauvins
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Problem is that pros carry battery-powered grinders that can defeat any lock in a matter of seconds. So I would think that the point is to deter the amateurs. An interesting solution might be to put a lock on a
steerstopper. (scroll to the bottom). The device would be useful on its own (my bike fell more than once) and this type of lock might just work.
A steerer lock might be a good idea. My old motorcycles all had fork locks, it would lock the fork at an angle, but that was built into the frame and fork. But, I get nervous about things that use keys, for example I would never want to use a Pitlock or anything like that as a skewer, I am sure I would lose the key. That said, on bike tours I use bolt on skewers that use a standard 5mm allen wrench. I usually have two multi-tools on bike tours, plus I pack an extra allen wrench with the spare tubes.
I am sure that the thieves are all well schooled on what these trackers look like. And that is part of the problem. If you attached it to the hub, the thieves would not assume it is part of a bike computer measuring rotations, they will know what that thing is and that it has to be cut off immediately. You will probably find your tracker a hundred yards (meters) away from where your bike was stolen from.
The few times I have heard of someone seeing their stolen bike show up on Craigslist or they see it somewhere, the racks and accessories are always removed. So, the thieves are looking for ways to remove anything that would make a bike look like a bike you might have a photo of. So, a tracker has to be on the bike where they will not see it, and that would be difficult.