Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
You will probably find your tracker a hundred yards (meters) away from where your bike was stolen from.
They could tape it to a random car.
Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
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.
Even if the tracker isn't removed, one would have to be rather lucky for the tracker to do any good. Considering using a tracker requires being very optimistic.