A worrying thought.

[Grandsatsuma]

This is a worrying to bikers, and it just shows how easily something like this can happen to any one of us; http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/1 ... sfeed=true

this has made me think even more into getting a tracker on my bike or in my jacket, I had thought about doing it before but this just makes me think it is even more important.

Best of luck to this guy and I hope he recovers

 

[mrtommygunwhite]

wow i'm defently getting a tracker.

 

[Bikermole]

I wouldn't say that you need a tracker. They're expensive. Very expensive. What I do on long solo trips, is I tell someone exactly where I am going, and for how long, and keep an old shit phone with sim, switched on all the time.

Why the old shit phone, you ask?

An old shit phone's battery will last for days when left on, but not used. Have a sim with no credit, and that phone instantly becomes a tracking device. You don't return home, and that contact gives that number to the emergency services, they have a much better chance of finding you.

Old shit phone and sim- £20

Tracker? Looking at £££'s installation and I think it's around £100 a year subscription.

Problem solved like a boss

 

[mrtommygunwhite]

I wouldn't say that you need a tracker. They're expensive. Very expensive. What I do on long solo trips, is I tell someone exactly where I am going, and for how long, and keep an old shit phone with sim, switched on all the time.

Why the old shit phone, you ask?

An old shit phone's battery will last for days when left on, but not used. Have a sim with no credit, and that phone instantly becomes a tracking device. You don't return home, and that contact gives that number to the emergency services, they have a much better chance of finding you.

Old shit phone and sim- £20

Tracker? Looking at £££'s installation and I think it's around £100 a year subscription.

Problem solved like a boss

good point if i say i'm going for a quick ride on here and am not back in 2 days call the services

 

[Bikermole]

I wouldn't say that you need a tracker. They're expensive. Very expensive. What I do on long solo trips, is I tell someone exactly where I am going, and for how long, and keep an old shit phone with sim, switched on all the time.

Why the old shit phone, you ask?

An old shit phone's battery will last for days when left on, but not used. Have a sim with no credit, and that phone instantly becomes a tracking device. You don't return home, and that contact gives that number to the emergency services, they have a much better chance of finding you.

Old shit phone and sim- £20

Tracker? Looking at £££'s installation and I think it's around £100 a year subscription.

Problem solved like a boss

good point if i say i'm going for a quick ride on here and am not back in 2 days call the services

I really meant parents, bird, mates, flatmates, pet duck.

 

[Stenno]

Incredible story, though things like this can happen to anyone, be it a motorcyclist or driver etc. I remember hearing about a dead car driver found off the A3 months after crashing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... crash.html

Google Latitude via my phone mind would give my partner and friends a rough idea of where I was.

 

[Grandsatsuma]

Incredible story, though things like this can happen to anyone, be it a motorcyclist or driver etc. I remember hearing about a dead car driver found off the A3 months after crashing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... crash.html

Google Latitude via my phone mind would give my partner and friends a rough idea of where I was.

That is quite shocking With a bike though there is more chance of you and the bike vanishing into the bushes :/
Also with a tracker thing there are many ways of doing it I have an advantage of having a dad who ownas a load of work vans all with trackers that updates every 5 seconds so if I just stick one on my bike my dad can stalk me... But smartphones and satnavs work too. The old phone idea is great though

 

[Stenno]

However I would love a tracker, albeit my current bike isn't really worth protecting to that level of degree!

 

[mrtommygunwhite]

However I would love a tracker, albeit my current bike isn't really worth protecting to that level of degree!

what about your life?

 

[timtom123]

Tracker? Looking at £££'s installation and I think it's around £100 a year subscription.

Problem solved like a boss

Most apple products now have a gps in them so all you have to do is open itunes and it will give you a location, handy if its been nicked or if your lost and somebody back at home can find you

 

[Mikesmotorbike]

Incredible story, though things like this can happen to anyone, be it a motorcyclist or driver etc. I remember hearing about a dead car driver found off the A3 months after crashing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... crash.html

Google Latitude via my phone mind would give my partner and friends a rough idea of where I was.

wow, that's where I live (when was this? can't find a date on it)

 

[Stenno]

Yeah I couldn't see a date. I think it was a few years ago from memory.

Just received this link on FB http://www.demonskinz.moonfruit.com/#/s ... Kit/514042 for £150 or £20 off if a MAG member.

 

[Friz]

Yeah I couldn't see a date. I think it was a few years ago from memory.

A quick Google tells me it's 2002. The car crashed in July and was found in December.

The probability of something like this happening is so tiny I really don't see the point in a tracker.
Besides, like everyone is saying, phones can be tracked really easily. Even if GPS is turned off, A-GPS (assisted GPS, using the level of your signal to work out an approximate location based on which phone mast your connected too) is always running and can easily show emergency services the area they need to search.

Providing your phone has signal and battery.

 

[SwearingMuffin]

Same as my phone, with Blackberry Protect someone in my family can log on and see the location of the phone