Have been happy with my BikeTrac. Crucially so is my insurance company. If anything the BikeTrac can be overly sensitive if shifting things round in the garage etc, Great piece of mind and some recent high profile recovery stories too.
Biketrac here. Expensive to buy and subscription isn't cheap either but bought one in 2018 and it's given solid service since. Moved from old bike to new by supplying dealer. The best and combined with other physical security devices and a Ducati alarm provides a layered security approach that gives me reasonable reassurance. I've had three bikes stolen in my lifetime, two in London and one in St Albans. Not an experience I want to repeat if I can possibly help it.
+1 for Biketrac on my SFV4. My 998 has a MoniMoto 7, which wasn’t on the ‘list’ until I queried and the insurer accepted it. BikeTrac very sensitive, gives short period after turn off before arming, otherwise I have to remember to switch on if I need to move it. MoniMoto also sensitive, but only responds with an automatic phone message, whereas BikeTrac has a real human. Goodness knows where the BikeTrac is hidden, the MoniMoto is less easily concealed.
Just fitted a biketrac to my new speed triple, not for insurance as it only made £1 difference, want for piece of mind.
I can't see anybody else's air tag just ours. I haven't been notified of anyone else's either I believe it's just me and the owner as they added me I think you have to physically have the tag to scan something on it which opens up a website and if the owner has lost mode enabled it may have contact information for the owner
Righty ok....i did read that they could be scanned for...as i say not an appley man/person....thanks Ducbird.
I think by law air tags and Samsung smart tags are detectable to prevent abuse by stalkers. I have four of the latter for keys and to put into luggage when travelling by air.
I have 4 AirTags for my ski bags. It was fun watching their progress through LHR and onto the airplane right under my seat. It was disconcerting that three "made" it on the airplane and one was left behind and a huge relief when all four showed up in Geneva. I put a Roadlok on my wife's bike so she will have no excuses while she parks her bike at work. Her bike also came with DataTag but that does not track as far as I know. I will probably order a Roadlok for my 848 and look into the Biketrac for both bikes. On overnight road trips we lock the bikes together, maybe add the tracker and then whatever happens happens...My question is, with the thousands of stolen motorcycles in the UK reported every year, where are they all going? It seems like the thieves would be flooding their own market?
Expensive bikes like Ducati's will either be broken for parts or shipped abroad for resale in countries that either have bigger fish to fry or don't give a toss about stolen bikes being imported.
Another thumbs up from me for Biketrac - (mine is on a Multi V4) it was fitted from new by the Ducati dealer - the bike is coming up to its first MOT so almost three years old now. Only last week I took it for new tyres and went for a walk whilst they did it. I got a phone call from Biketrac after about 20 minutes saying that the bike was being moved (presumably because the keys were not close and the ignition wasn't started) so I stood them fdown - I should of course have put it in service mode for an hour or two. Same happened when it was relayed to Ducati last year and i forgot to set it properly. And a couple of years ago on a trip to France I was stood with a friends in the long boarding queue at Dover. Rather than switch the engine on every 5 minutes to move forward about 10 feet we opted to paddle the bikes forward. Guess what.. my phone rang! Bike Trak " we see your bike being moved without the ignition on, at Dover!!" So I cannot fault their responses to bike movements. I dropped the bike on soft ground recently as well, and it reported (via text) that the bike had dropped, which amazed me. So no real false alarms as such - just ones where I've not followed the protocol properly. I always have the bike on an Optimate which I guess helps - I would imagine they are likely to drain the m/c battery if left for days or weeks without trickle charge. And thirdly... my insurer insisted upon an approved device fitted by an approved installer with a registarion certification to prove. It's not cheap, but then it's a hobby bike for me and if I didn't feel comfortable with laying out those extra bits of money for security and so on, I'd probably stick with an old Suzuki Bandit and then not even bother with locks (as was the case the last time I had one) By the way (although I'm not a mechanic) I have no idea where on the bike it is - or how easy it would be to detect and remove it.
I am amazed at the theft rates in the UK, with nearly 50 motorcycles a day reported stolen on the average, they must be filling tons of shipping containers...Two days after moving to Los Angeles in 1990, my 1 month old Toyota Tacoma was stolen. About one year later, police investigators contacted me about a violent murder in Mexico that my truck was involved in. The LAPDm forgot to look up the police report I filed on it being stolen. Lots of POS on this planet!
Mostly abroad, there are too many for the domestic market. Not sure about right now but I work with some lads from the Baltics and there is a ready market in Russia. Plenty of countries where no one cares where that part or whole bike came from. A story from an e biker with a tracker fitted claimed his tracker came alive in Kazakhstan on a 4 k bike.
I have biketrac on all three of my Ducati's, the only downside is they drain the main battery quickly. Biketac uses three radios (gsm, gps/wcdma, rf) for communication and gps/gsm for location, which is more than any other system. A simple gsm detector will give away their presence and a cheap blocker will defeat them. AirTag is an interesting option, however their presence is given away by connection attempts to nearby bluetooth unpaired devices. Between 4 to 12 hours from being out of Bluetooth range of the device registered device (iphone), AirTags will emit a beeping noise when moved. Also, the thieves, or people near them, will need to have iPhones/iCloud device for AirTags to work. In the US you can get 10 year Airtag battery mod which is interesting for longer term usage. https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/introducing-timecapsule? Biketrac is the best pro option, AirTag is a good low cost/maintenance option.
Whilst both dealers that fitted the Biketrac, from new and then then refitted it to my current bike, were main Ducati dealers and approved Biketrac fitters they didn't do a very good job IMHO. Whilst in both cases fitting was included as part of the deal they took shortcuts when fitting in both cases. Fitted loosely under the seat with all wiring in plain view once the seat was off. Biketrac claim that they don't show pictures of the unit so as to make identification harder... come on... surely scrotes will know what to look for. In both cases I've taken the time to create a better concealed install, making a new loom and using less obvious and hidden connection points plus locating the unit in an out of the way and hard to access place on the bike. Mine lasted for about 8 weeks and with a Ducati Alarm drawing power too when I moved house (garage has no power). And at that stage the Biketrac sent me an alert stating that the bike's battery had reached the threshold I'd set in the app. So I then got off my lazy backside and installed the Optimate solar charger that I'd bought when I moved... After my accident last year my old 1260 Multi wasn't repatriated for about 6 weeks. Sat in a depot in the South of France for 4 weeks and then spent 2 weeks trundling around the country on a truck with a load of other broken vehicles. It even got back to Nice, where I'd started the journey on that fateful day. Interestingly the tracker somehow switched off once on the A20 out of Dover and before reaching the recovery firm's depot. There was still charge in the bike's battery, the alarm wasn't armed. The recovery firm seemed to be able to identify that it had a tracker and turn it off, no idea how they did that?
I have S5 Stealth trackers fitted to all of my bikes, plus the usual hardware for company. I have used Biketrac in the past without complaint.
just to say the air tag we have doesn't try to connect to the third iPhone we have here or my old iPhone when I'm using it. it hasn't tried to connect to my brothers phone or any of my visiting friends It doesn't beep either unless you active sound to find where the lost tag is then it will beep I had strict instructions not to play sound
There are a number of conditions where alerts are not surfaced (same/shared iTunes account, shared contacts etc). The specific conditions and exclusions with examples are covered in Apple support docs here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119874 >> I had strict instructions not to play sound The anti/tracking stalking provisions are forced, the tag will beep if the condition are met.
There was a test done in Ride mag a few months ago. Quite interesting in that many do not work once the bike is in a van.
