Microchipping your bike

[.Adam.]

Anybody had their bike microchipped? Have heard about this, and was thinking of getting mine done, but I didn't know where to go, do you go to your local Police station, or is it something that a bike shop can do?

[Locoblade]

Im not sure about microchipping but you can get those micro-dot kits from some bike shops which you "paint" all over the bike yourself, something like this
www.swinnertoncycles.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=FREEMICROTAG

[pdV6]

The chips you can usually buy from any good bike shop.
They're about the size of a grain of rice; you dip them in glue and drop them into an open tube (e.g. seat tube) and then register the chip and put a sticker on the frame so that the police know to scan it for a chip.

Datatag is the most common I think.

Costs about £20-30 iirc

[Locoblade]

Obviously check you have an accessible tube if going that route then, cos some full sussers have a short open ended seat tube which is obviously useless for this purpose, and unless the top tube has an internal hole into the seat tube (usually so welding gasses can escape) thats big enough and easily accessible enough to put the chip into, Im not sure you'd be able to get inside any of the other tubes without drilling a hole!

[.Adam.]

Thanks for the replies, I've got an Orange 5, so can put it in my seat tube if I can't find anywhere better to put it.

[beyond rational]

If you have the holes to fit a bottle cage, you should be able to fit a chip

[Locoblade]

Ah good point, never thought of those holes

[RNN14]

Locoblade said:

Obviously check you have an accessible tube if going that route then, cos some full sussers have a short open ended seat tube which is obviously useless for this purpose, and unless the top tube has an internal hole into the seat tube (usually so welding gasses can escape) thats big enough and easily accessible enough to put the chip into, Im not sure you'd be able to get inside any of the other tubes without drilling a hole!

Remove the forks - working through the headtube, drop the Datatag/glue through the vent hole into the end of the toptube or downtube. Impossible to get at without removing the forks, and nigh-on impossible to remove/destroy.