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The BikeSpike - GPS/Tracker for your bicycle

It's on kickstarter. It's from Chicago. It looks like a small and great idea, and I'm backing it. It fits in a custom water bottle cage that they give you.


Just thought I would share.

BikeSpike

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on March 29, 2013 at 11:44am

Congrats on the Trib article! That should help drum up some more kickstartery love!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-bikespike-theft-dev...

Permalink Reply by Three Man Rocket on March 29, 2013 at 11:52am

Thank you so much Tony!  We're working around the clock to get the message out.  We really think that the Chicago biking community is with us and we hope to make you proud in the final days of our Kickstarter!  

Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on March 29, 2013 at 11:54am

We'll post to our social media channels, congrats!

Best,

Ethan Spotts, Active Trans

Permalink Reply by Three Man Rocket on March 29, 2013 at 12:00pm

Thank you!  We're going to try to make magic happen shortly.  We're going to be unleashing a tier in the next couple of hours that we hope will inspire people to take the leap with us and spread the word.  We've been chatting with bicycle advocacy groups from NYC and the good folks at Bike Portland and everywhere in between and they all want us to exist.  Let's change the way WE ride forever and of course HAPPY FIRDAY!!!!! (said like Mel Gibson at the end of Braveheart, though he is a prick, you get the tone, also The Road Warrior was good).  Happy Friday!   

Permalink Reply by Three Man Rocket on March 30, 2013 at 3:33pm

To add to that, if you think you'll be in any competitive races any time soon or if you wanted to manage a fleet of bikes, you'd want to choose the Pro Plan.  For urban dwellers like us, the commuter plan is perfect, providing all the features you'd want to help recover your bike if it's stolen, alert key members of your contacts list if you were in a crash, and push a notification to your phone an email if someone even begins tampering with your bike.  Hope that helps inform your decision :-)  Great ride last night!  

badwolf said:

Hey, I was just wondering if you could give us a better idea as to what kind of a rider a "casual user" is. 



Three Man Rocket said:

 In our tests so far casual users need to recharge about once a month. 

Permalink Reply by spencewine on April 9, 2013 at 3:41pm

Congrats! The project has been funded. I jumped on the early-ish bird special. Looking forward to the product.

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on April 7, 2015 at 5:52pm

I asked for a refund from this in late September after a year of the project not releasing any promising updates. Received the refund shortly afterwards. I feel bad for the people still waiting on this as they haven't released an update since October. For the past few months the forum on kickstarter is full of people asking for refunds with no reply from the Bike Spike guys. 

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on April 7, 2015 at 5:53pm

Also, my Helios bars are still working awesome.

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