Bike tracker €29
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numbnuts
Squire
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- Gone over the hill and far away
shipping outside the USA (+$10.00)
if it works still not bad at $39 = £27.42
if it works still not bad at $39 = £27.42
You might actually want to read into this before buying. This is just a Bluetooth device that if you lose your bike then it relies on people running a special app being nearby and connecting to the device. Basically it is crowd sourced tracking. The problem is, there is no crowd.
yeah, was wondering "how do they DO that?"
okay, so yeah a sneaky idea, but it'll need a certain level of devices to function well...... I guess if google or apple stuck this into their OS ? otherwise people would have to be running the tracking app without nesc having the device ?
It's success relies on it's penetration in the market. There are numerous devices like these, none of them with great penetration and no standardisation - so I am not too confident this will work. By the way the reviews for this particular product on amazon.com are pretty damming.
jay clock
Massive member
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I like this review "Probably the worst thing I have ever bought! Or was that a Bros album in the 80's!"
jefmcg
Guru
I do not like this company.
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That looks like a gadget fan site, but it doesn't take much reading to realise that page is just an ad. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=112&v=ENNdxGHO5JA Let's assume it's a true story. They clearly found a whole lot of stolen bikes but "no need to call the cops" Yeah, great.
- amazon, thanks @Milkfloat
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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- You want hills? We got hills
Spot on. I saw this on another website and liked the sound of it so did some investigation. On the Trakr website there is a zoomable map that shows "active" gps devices that you could piggyback on. What that means is that if your bike is within range of one of these devices then you can find it. I think the range is about 100ft?
Anyway, I looked at my town of Glossop for example. There were three active units. I reckon you would need fifty, a hundred active units in Glossop to be reasonably confident of tracking your nicked bike.
So the market penetration is a million miles away from where it needs to be to be a useful product. Even in a city like Manchester there are massive holes in coverage
Useful for finding your keys in the house. That's about it
