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That's some tracking. A stolen bike tracked from London to Lithuania...and in Lithuania, local plod were happy to do what they are paid to do...unlike they UK equivalents.

http://biketrac.motocom.co.uk/news/item ... t/0/num/5/

That's impressive.

Unfortunately most thieves are a little more organised and the tracker would never made it out of the UK.

That's pretty good!
Got to think more realistically and have to agree with D6Nuts here, if the thieves checked the Bike over then it would of only been a matter of time before they found the tracker :-( but in this case I'm really not surprised the company are telling us the story...if I was working for this company and saved a man a load of hassle and grief because of one of their products I too would be happy :-)

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The professional gangs have someone in the back of the van who will sweep the bikes to find the tracker. Within 10 minutes of your bike being nicked the tracker will be useless.

kwacky wrote:The professional gangs have someone in the back of the van who will sweep the bikes to find the tracker. Within 10 minutes of your bike being nicked the tracker will be useless.

I do tend to agree. Sadly just claim on insurance

Don't they usually leave the bike in a car park somewhere and keep an eye on it for a while first?

Thing with a tracker is that if the bike is a plant by the cops then they will get nicked very quickly.

Not sure about now bit the thieves would purchase old refrigerated vans and the tracker signal wouldn't make it through.

IMO the criminal walls of life will adapt and overcome whatever measures are put it place, they've come a long way from just being armed with a screwdriver

btw fitting your own diy tracker is cheap, effective and simple. Richard Moore who has Biker Mates on Facebook runs a free installation day at his home every now and then. Quite a few have done this with top results.

dan uk wrote:Not sure about now bit the thieves would purchase old refrigerated vans and the tracker signal wouldn't make it through.

I'm sure I remember reading about gangs in london who used refrigerated vans, the cut the bottom and installed a winch. The would open the rear doors and drive over the bike, winch it inside, shut the doors and drive off. The insulation would also mute the sound of the alarm.

Dan UK
You can buy little cheap trackers but how does this compare to big names with all the trimmings on them?

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some of good ones are hard wired into the main loom making them harder to remove, but they still can be removed.

These I'm thinking of are hard wired into the loom also then registered into a registrar and insurance approved. All the trimmings etc are built into one self contained unit in the tail section behind body work.

I wouldn't waste anyone's time recommending cheap tat.

Lol no defo not worth wasting time, energy and money into crap on a valuable item like our pride and joys! It's just seen some on eBay (small cheaper etc) and wondered what the difference was but Tbh it's worth (if going to go down that line) of getting a legit one.

Just a shame thieves can remove them with a bit of work or know how.
Makes you think why aren't bikes fitted with real security when theft rates are so high! Never ending subject I guess lol!

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As Dan said the decent thieves work out ways around security. Most of the stuff fitted is to stop the opportunist thief.

I can easily stop any opportunist or criminal mastermind...all I need is me, a flame thrown and no rule book...;-) hahaha

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kwacky wrote:As Dan said the decent thieves work out ways around security. Most of the stuff fitted is to stop the opportunist thief.

And I think most bike thefts are opportunist, at least the 3 I've had half-inched were...

kwacky wrote:As Dan said the decent thieves work out ways around security. Most of the stuff fitted is to stop the opportunist thief.

This is the view I take, if someone really really wants my bike and knows what they are doing chances are nothing I can do will stop them so mine is all just to stop the opportunist theif with a bigg ass chain and disc lock. The one bike Ive had stolen in the past was oportunistic and I learnt my lesson after that.