I doubt there's any place in the world that considers a simple bait bike as anything like entrapment. The police haven't done anything to even tempt you to bre

I doubt there's any place in the world that considers a simple bait bike as anything like entrapment. The police haven't done anything to even tempt you to break the law, and actual entrapment would require that they actively coerced you to break the law when you otherwise wouldn't. Unless you mean the 'buying from a homeless person' part. Receiving stolen goods, would probably come down to if the jury or judge believed your claims that you had every reason to expect that the homeless guy really did own a $3K bike they wanted to sell.