DT125R ARCHIVE

bigrvg · DTR Respected Member

Has anyone on here ever fitted a tracker to their bike?

Energized · DTR Legend

Never tried one but wouldn't say no to trying one, any form of security in this day and age is a bonus.

In my opinion it sounds like a great idea, plenty of places you could tuck one away aswell.

yamahayz125 · DTR Senior Member

av just bought a datatool 3 alarm and the next thing am getting is a tracker and its the only thing that can tell you were your bikes at when its grow its own legs think their 35 on ebay for the kit and worth their weight in gold

MDK · DTR Legend

wouldnt mined some reviews or testing of some of the cheaper ones out there .

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p3984.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.Xmotorcycle+gps+tracker&_nkw=motorcycle+gps+tracker&_sacat=0&_from=R40

bigrvg · DTR Respected Member

It's the unanswered things that get me thinking. I wonder how much it would cost to track it once, ie; when you text or call the sim cards number, how much it costs for that text and how much it costs for the tracker to use gps to then send the coordinates to your phone.

NEV · Guru

Also how long after the alarm has drained the battery, does it work for? my alarm drains the battery after about 5 days, if it hasn't been started.

Rwszc · DTR Respected Member

I'd love to see the crooks face when you Knocked on his garage door and ask for your bike back with the police behind you lol....

bigrvg · DTR Respected Member

It just seems such a cheap alternative to losing a bike. Also, who is gonna think its got a tracker? Trackers still seem like that mythical future technology that costs thousands, but in actual fact can be picked up off ebay for the price of a few tanks of petrol.

mr karnage · Guru

There's one called spybike

Have a gander, it's quite pricey mind. About 100 pound

MDK · DTR Legend

some one should buy one of those cheap ones http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-GPS-GPRS-GSM-Tracker-SMS-Real-Time-Network-Bike-Vehicle-Motorcycle-Monitor-/130978096022?pt=UK_In_Car_Technology&hash=item1e7ee72396

and with out putting to much faith in it just run it for a test or review see if it realy can find a bike and whats the over all cost if any of tracking .

yamahayz125 · DTR Senior Member

al buy 1 once I get my alarm fitted am just waiting on Yamaha to send my new loom and al let yous know the costs of the txt and stuff

AndyYam · Guru

Rwszc wrote:
I'd love to see the crooks face when you Knocked on his garage door and ask for your bike back with the police behind you lol....

The police wouldnt be the ones behind me. You wouldnt want them to see the events that would follow!

AndyYam · Guru

I've got a tracker at home somewhere that I got for free at the MCN show in london. I never fitted it. It was a gps tracker and activated and called the police if the bike was moved more than 10 metres without the key in the igntion and also alerted the emergency services if you crashed and didnt answer your mobile phone within 15 minutes. You had to pay like 10-15 a month i think. May well look into one of the sim card ones for my TZR once its built though.

Luke · Guru

If they run on a battery, I consider them a waste of money on a trails bike. As I know that battery is gone along with all the other road looking stuff within the hour of it being nicked.

yamahayz125 · DTR Senior Member

they have back up battery's inside the tracker

MDK · DTR Legend

Boxing wrote:
If they run on a battery, I consider them a waste of money on a trails bike. As I know that battery is gone along with all the other road looking stuff within the hour of it being nicked.

not always .

and as said above it has some have built in backup batterys not sure what voltage they realy need to run but bet you could wire it to a small 9v and hide that also .

wired in to the loom somewhere and not direct to the battery it could also get power when running from the engine ? now what would be the best palce to hide it whats water proof and well hidden most would put it under the seat or tank that would be the first place i would look or in behind the clocks and light

dan28 · DTR Senior Member

Look at the spy bike website these are intended for push bikes they don't require any wiring

tommyd2014 · DTR Newbie

mines inside my tank running of its own batterys the only way they could get rid is to change the tank all together. obvoiusly ive wrapped it so its protected from fuel i also check it before i take it out also whilst its full to the brim making sure its not been ruined by the petrol

Energized · DTR Legend

Bloomin 'eck Tommy Kemp! That's what you call a secret stash away LOL!

Fair play if it works, i'd probably bang it around the airbox area.

Dunna like the idea of whacking it in my fuel tank haha!!!

NEV · Guru

Looking through the bumf that came with the new Lexus, I see it has a tracker fitted, so ring them up to transfer over to me, they tell me there's a £30 transfer fee, which is fair enough, but because it has the VHF type of tracker that still can be found if its in an underground car park, or inside a container, there's either a 1 year fee of £170 per year, or £360 fee until I come to sell it. Talk about, getting you by the short and curlies. So is this the same with the bike trackers too then? you buy the tracker initially to put on your bike, but then have to pay a daft amount to a company to let you know if its been moved without the ignition being on, and to pull up a computer screen and it to come up with where your car is at, when you ring up and ask them?

Calum122 · Guru

By the sounds of things NEV there are a few types. The SIM only ones are pretty barbaric in that it's effectively a PayAsYouGo phone that when you text it it texts you the Co-ordinates of it's location. How exact that is is questionable. Or the type like your car.

Obviously the SIM only one you just top it up. And it would only use the credit once you text it. So what you only use it if it were stolen or you were practicing.

ezegreenfingers · Guru

I had one of those sim ones years ago needed charging all the time used it for about a month then stopped using it about a year latter I got burgled for my car never to be seen again just wish I would of wired it in sum how very good idea only if u wire it otherwise junk