Tracking bikes

[timboellis]

If i have say 3 bikes used by the company and want to see what where they are any cheap solutions for this.

Tried some of the tracking companies and they charge a fortune any other suggestions.

The only thing i could think of the the google tracking if i got an android phone with unlimited data plan and hard wired it somewhere on the bike?

[G]

There's quite a few solutions. Various ways you can do it with cheap phones - including having them text you etc, rather than having to have a big data plan.

Or search for 'GPS tracker' on ebay and the like to get a wide variety of options.

[Kingstondavo]

Biketrac is really good - recovery seems to be top notch and the web UI shows a trail of all journeys taken including average speed etc. Can also set it to text numbers in the event of the bike going down.

£99 a year isn't too bad either (you wouldn't get a phone and data plan for that)
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[t121anf]

my old Nokia 5800 had Google Latitude installed, shows you where your friends are etc, wifey used it to make sure i was moving on rideouts.

i.e. if i stayed in position x for to long and didn't answer my phone it was time to start panicing.

free from a software point of view, only need something that can use data,

https://www.google.com/latitude

[lllN30lll]

Plenty of trackers on eBay that use PAYG sims in them.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?rt=nc&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=gps%20tracker&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m283

All you need to do is wire it to your power source.