The best motorcycle GPS trackers to help find stolen bikes

Published: 17 August 2023 Updated: 09 November 2023

With all the different motorcycle GPS trackers on the market, it can be difficult to find the right one for your needs. To help you decide, we at MCN have come up with this list of motorcycle security tracking devices that will easily and securely fit to your bike.

Built to protect and track your bike in the unfortunate event of a theft, these durable, waterproof devices offer alerts and full location tracking and could even save you money on your motorcycle insurance.

The best motorcycle GPS trackers at a glance:

Best budget tracker: Rewire Security DB2 – view on Amazon UK
Best coverage tracker: Datatool Stealth – view on Datatool

It’s worth bearing in mind that if you leave your bike laid up for extended periods and you have a tracker fitted, you’ll need to use a trickle charger to avoid depleting the battery.

The best motorcycle GPS trackers

Rewire Security DB2

Best value for money motorcycle tracker

Rrp: £34.99

Price: £29.99

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This is one of Rewire Security's budget but effective motorcycle GPS trackers. You hardwire this unit yourself and pay a £5 monthly subscription that gives you real-time location, speed, and route history, among other things via the GPSLive app. The DB2 also comes with a SIM that will automatically connect to the strongest available signal in 120 countries and is accurate to roughly two metres.

Pros

Works in 120 countries
Accurate to two metres

Cons

Requires a subcription

Datatool Stealth

Best coverage motorcycle tracker

Price: £359.00

www.datatool.co.uk

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The Stealth S5 is an installed product with Europe-wide coverage – and professional installation at a location of your choice is included in the price tag. The system comes with rider ID tags that mean once you’ve stopped riding and walked away, the S5 throws up a geofence around your bike and monitors it 24/7. If it’s disturbed, or moves at all, you’ll get a message to your device. If it moves outside the geofence, you’ll be called to verify the bike’s status and tracking with police liaison will begin. There’s also clever emergency assist functionality, too. Subs cost £9.99 pm, £109.00 pa, £279 for three years or £599.00 for lifetime ownership.

Pros

European coverage
Professionally installed

Cons

More expensive subscription than others on this list

MoniMoto Smart Motorcycle GPS Alarm

Best easy to use motorcycle tracker

www.amazon.co.uk

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Trackers are increasingly useful items, not least because smartphone connectivity and global mobile data networks mean it's harder than ever to hide from Big Brother. And if you want pure simple useability, this MoniMoto unit is great.

Buy the unit and you’ll get two months of SIM coverage as part of the deal. Then you’re looking at a £2.70 per month SIM subscription thereafter. Setting it up is as easy as deploying the batteries and syncing it to your smartphone via the App, through which you can see unit status, battery life, connection and location of your bike when tracking.

Just keep the little key fob safe and sound and take it with you while you’re riding. If the unit senses that it’s on the move, but can’t contact the fob, then you’ll get a call on your connected device and live tracking will begin.

It’s a doddle to fit, set-up and use – and you get a reassuring notification each day that the system is running fine. For pure simplicity and relatively low cost, it’s a great option.You also get a key fob that communicates to the tracker – arming and disarming it if the fob is nearby.

If the tracker detects movement and while armed it sends an alert to the owner and updates the location via GPS. This is a subscription-based service and the internal battery of the tracker should last about a year.

Pros

Ease of use
Easy to install

Cons

Needs to be in range of key fob

Dguard

Best multi-function motorcycle tracker

Price: £378.41 (449.00 EUR)

www.dguard.com

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A relatively new choice on the marketplace. Primarily an e-call system in the event of an accident, the tracking element of the device syncs to your mobile phone through an app. MCN's Dan Sutherland tested the first dguard system in the UK on his own Kawasaki ZX-6R (read our full review).

This can then be configured to your preferences for such things as sensitivity. The theft warning device is activated once your ignition is switched off and is signified by six flashes of the external dguard button. As soon as your motorcycle has not been moved for at least 10 seconds, the monitoring is armed.

If your bike moves without the ignition switched on, the system will then relay a message to your phone with the bike's location. The frequency of text alerts depends on the sensitivity you have selected.

Pros

Includes e-call system
Automatic arming

Cons

Obvious mounting point

BikeTrac

If you want a serious hardwired tracker, this is great place to start. Your authorised dealer will fit it in the most thief-beating covert location possible, and once it’s up and running you’ll have a 24/7 monitoring and tracking service looking after your bike.

Backed up with a 30-day internal power source, it’ll also text you if your bike battery is getting low on juice. Thatcham S7 rated, it’s a GPS/GSM/ RF tracker that’ll read inside buildings, underground, in vans or shipping containers.

The unit is £299 + install, then it’s £9.99pm or £99pa – and they now offer 0% finance to help you spread the cost more easily.Features include stealth installation and a self-maintaining battery, with all authorised BikeTrac dealers being trained to ensure that a unit is installed in the most covert location possible.

Why consider a motorcycle GPS tracker?

There’s no trick answers here. Effective motorcycle GPS trackers simply act as a means of finding your bike, should it be stolen.

At one end of the market are the cheap units from companies you’ve never heard of – we strongly advise avoiding these and spend your money on something else instead. A step up from these are self-monitored systems from reputable companies that you install yourself.

These units send you alerts if something is awry and you can track movements via updates sent to an app on your phone.

At the other end of the scale are the managed systems where a team monitor vehicles fitted with the company’s trackers 24/7. These people will contact you immediately, should your bike be stolen, and they will then liase with authorities to find the bike.

These are Thatcham approved units and have stronger tracking signals that continue to work even if a bike is taken to an underground carpark or inside a shipping container, for example. Here are some of our favourite motorcycle trackers.

About the author: After qualifying as a mechanical engineer, Jim Blackstock began working on magazines in the early 1990s. He remains passionate about product testing to ensure readers know what products offer good value and why. He relishes torrential rain to see if riding kit keeps water out and an hour or two to tinker on a project bike in his workshop.

- Just so you know, whilst we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this page, we never allow this to influence product selections.

By Jim Blackstock

Keen wet weather rider and dedicated product tester for MCN and sister publication RiDE Magazine.