Last year someone broke into the garage on the side of my house and stole all of my bikes. My road race bike, my gravel bike, my downhill bike, my commuter bike and a set carbon fibre wheels. To say I was devastated was an understatement. That collection of bikes may sound excessive to the casual observer, but to those students of the n+1 theory of bike ownership, it was a humble start. It had taken me years to build up my fleet of bikes and they were stolen away from me in minutes. I keep thinking that if only I had known about anti-theft bike GPS tracking devices back then.
Put simply, a bike GPS tracking device is an anti-theft device that you attach to your bicycle (ideally somewhere inconspicuous, so it can’t be seen and removed by the would-be thieves). These differ from your standard GPS bike computers like Garmin, Wahoo and Hammerhead, which are used as tools for tracking workouts and all the juicy metrics we cyclists love to analyse.