Trackting One review | Self-powered motorcycle tracker tested

Date reviewed: October 2025 | Tested by: John Milbank | Price: £129 + £59/two years | www.trackting.com

The Trackting One on review here is a compact, self-powered motorcycle tracker that will ping you the bike’s location when you park, then send a notification and a telephone call if it detects any movement.

I’ve run the Trackting through Bennetts BikeSocial’s rigorous and independent testing to help you decide if it’s the right anti-theft device for you…

Pros & Cons

Features and price

The Trackting One, which is made in Italy, costs £129.99 to buy then £39/year or £59/two years for the subscription and comes with a key-fob that lets it know when you’re with the bike to avoid any need for manual arming or disarming. The first two months of use are free.

If Trackting goes into alarm mode it will send a push notification, phone you, and a button appears in the app to quickly dial 112 (which works the same as 999 in the UK as well as across Europe). You can also share the bike’s current location via pretty much any messaging app, or click to be taken to your choice of mapping software to navigate to it, though this will be the location at that time only as it’s not updated in external apps if the bike’s still on the move.

Trackting One is NOT monitored, and the phone call it makes to you if it detects movement is automated. While you won’t have the 24/7 support of a dedicated team that will liaise direct with the Police like a professional tracker can, officers will still – resource permitting – respond to live tracking events.

A battery-powered device like this does have the advantage of no cables that can be tracked, but this is a bit of a red herring as a properly-fitted pro tracker will have the wiring well hidden. Where a self-powered tracker has a real advantage over one that takes power from the bike’s battery (apart from ease of DIY installation) is on off-road bikes, classics etc.

Trackting One, which weighs only 66g, is charged via a USB-C port and is claimed to last up to four months when the bike’s in regular use. If it’s not moving at all, the battery will apparently last up to six months before it needs a recharge. I’ve been testing it pretty intensively for the past month and the app still shows it as having a full battery, but I’ll update this review if the capacity isn’t what I expected.

Annoyingly, the little cover over the USB-C port isn’t retained so when you drop it you’ll likely lose it. A spare is supplied, but this could have been better designed with a small tether. You can’t hardwire the Trackting to your bike as it doesn’t track when it’s on charge.

The fob weighs just 11g and is powered by a CR2032 button cell, which only costs about £1 and I’d expect to last several years.

You can link up to ten Trackting devices to your account and monitor them on the app, and you can run the same account on multiple devices if you want to.

The SIM cannot be replaced with your own due to being soldered to the internal circuit, but it covers most of the world as standard, with the full list of countries available here.

Fitting the Trackting

It’s very important that any tracker is fitted in a hidden location, and that includes when the seat is removed as one of the first thing many thieves do is to pull the seat off and have a look for a device. If they find it, they’ll chuck it away.

Take your time to find somewhere that’s hard to spot, but that you can get at every few months for charging.

Trackting claims you don’t need to remove the device from your bike (or car) to charge it, but to get to the USB-C port would mean you’d have to place it somewhere easily accessible, which might also make it quicker for a thief to find.

Trackting One is supplied with a strip of double-sided foam tape, but this won’t allow you to remove and replace it so I used some strong self-adhesive Velcro. It’s a shame Trackting doesn’t supply this or the optional £8.99 clip, which appears to be designed to screw into place. I’d hope it can also be stuck down with adhesive tape, despite there not being much surface area on it. It also seems to grip very strongly, so you might need to make it even more accessible to be able to get the device out. I’d suggest buying some strong Velcro or 3M Dual Lock tape and tucking the Trackting well out of the way, making sure the top of the body is facing upwards and it’s not shielded by metal – under a plastic panel you don’t mind taking off would be ideal.

Two shallow channels are moulded into both of the long sides of the top of the body of the Trackting One, which could help when securing with the two supplied zip-ties, but they’re rather short.

Once you’ve downloaded the Trackting app to your phone, you’re taken through the steps necessary to get it installed – as you don’t need to tap into the bike’s wiring, this shouldn’t take long at all.

When this screenshot was grabbed, the bike was actually parked in the bay just to the right of the marker

Day-to-day use

Thanks to the key-fob, the Trackting One is extremely unobtrusive in day-to-day riding as you just get a notification on the phone of where you’re parked when the fob goes out of range, which can be really helpful when parking in a city for instance.

For normal use, the only time you’ll need to interact with the Trackting is when it needs charging.

If your bike gets moved, or even detects significant vibration, you’ll get a push notification and a phone call to alert you. If you answer, it’s just an automated voice saying ‘Trackting alarm’.

A push-notification is easy to miss (especially when you’re asleep), but a phone call is a far more effective way of getting your attention. But this is also a flaw of the Trackting… if you answer the call it’ll only allow five a month.

Under normal use this shouldn’t be a problem as long as the bike isn’t moved while out of range of the fob, but if, during a period of one month, you did answer five of these alerts then in the event of another – which might be a real theft – you’ll only get a push notification. The device would still go into alarm mode and tracking would be activated, but you might not realise for a while.

The solution is to reject the call – it’s still had its effect and alerted you, and ditching the call doesn’t take the device out of alarm mode so tracking will still be active until you either go back to the bike with the key-fob, or you deactivate the alarm via the app. However… if you reject the call or let it ring out and your phone switches to an answering service, then the call will still be picked up and you’ll end up losing one of your monthly quota. The most obvious limitation here is that if the bike is out of range of the fob when in your garage (as it should be), and you move it or knock it five times within a month then it’s important that those calls don’t get picked up or go to your answering service.

The vibration sensing of the Trackting is what I like best about it as you can adjust it between three levels. When the bike’s parked out in the street, this could be a great way of getting fast notification of someone tampering with your machine.

Adjusting the sensitivity requires connecting your phone to the Trackting using the supplied USB-C cable (there’s nothing in the box for owners of older Apple devices), but that’s not made clear in the app, which just says that you need to “Approach the device and press ‘connect’ to start synchronisation.” Once you press the button it will try for a while then display  “Device not found, approach your tracker and try again.” It turns out that ‘approach’ actually means ‘plug it in’.

My garage is next to the living room, and when the keys are put away with about four metres and a wall between them and the bike, like with other trackers it’s still within close enough range that I wouldn’t get an alert until the motorcycle was moved away from the house. Just keep in mind where you keep your keys if you want the fastest response times.

Trackting theft test

All our tracker tests are conducted in the same way – we don’t tell the manufacturer when we intend to perform a mock theft, and while we won’t waste police time to raise a crime number (if necessary for monitored systems), we expect the device (if it’s self-monitored) or operations centre to demonstrate the full service.

Level one: Stolen and left in street | Pulling the bike out of the garage and moving it to the side of the house, Trackting took three minutes to alert me with a push notification and a call during the first test.

On a second test, with the bike already outside and a clear GPS connection, the alert was raised within less than a minute.

Once active and when the bike’s outside Trackting generally gives good accuracy of within about three metres, so for the most common theft where the motorbike is pushed away and left somewhere (often covered and even locked), the Trackting One should help you locate it quickly.

Tested with the bike in a van with a steel bulkhead, Trackting still remains surprisingly accurate, updating its location and showing the speed it’s travelling every 30 seconds or so.

Parking up with the bike still in the van, the location was still accurate to within about three meters.

With the bike still in the van, the Trackting’s accuracy was good – the red dot shows where it thought it was, while the blue one shows where the van was actually parked

Level two: Stolen and hidden in a building | When parking the bike up and leaving it, if the Trackting doesn’t have a GPS connection it will display a warning and not show its location. However, in the event of a theft, as soon as the device regains connection it’ll alert you and show the location.

I’ve had mixed results when simulating a theft that sees the bike put into a building, and it’s where the Trackting’s other flaw raises its head.

In some cases, the bike was displayed as being within around five to ten metres of its actual location when hidden in a building, but in one of my tests it was shown as 53 metres away. Even in a location where the houses aren’t crammed particularly tightly together, this radius can easily mean 30 or more properties where the bike might actually by.

This could have been overcome to some extent if only Trackting allowed you to see the past events and hence the route taken by the bike. It’s quite possible that a solid GPS ping could be achieved before the device became less accurate, which might help you work out the location. Professionally-monitored trackers of course do this, and the monitoring teams will be able to see the movement very accurately. Trackting’s most obvious competitor – Monimoto – has similar accuracy limitations, but it allows you to scroll back through the previous alerts and see everywhere the bike has been.

Trackting tells me that the reason past locations aren’t shown is to save battery life, but these would be stored in the app after the device has sent them anyway, rather than being overwritten, so I hope to see this in a future update.

Accuracy while the bike was being transported in the van is good, but I really wish these could be recorded in the app, rather than overwritten

Level three: Stolen and hidden in a shipping container | The lack of any route history is perhaps less of an issue if the bike’s put in a shipping container and the signal’s completely lost as the last known location should be shown. If that was recorded just before the bike entered a container, it could prove valuable.

But… if the device manages a weak connection at all, if it’s not accurate then things get a lot tougher as there won’t be the opportunity to find where it potentially was just before it went inside.

Bike jacking

While not a common theft method, if your bike was taken with the keys and the fob’s with them, you can’t manually activate the alarm state, so it’ll only update when the keys are taken away from it. It’s always advised to keep a tracker fob separate to your bike keys, but the closest competitor – Monimoto – does give this functionality as an emergency option.

Trackting support

Trackting One is not a monitored tracker, but there is an online support system if you need help. Trackting claims that it will respond within 24 hours on business days, and in my experience I did get a helpful reply the morning after opening a ticket.

Trackting insurance approval

As it’s not Thatcham-approved, Trackting is not officially recognised by insurers. This is also the case with Monimoto, but some brokers might offer their own ‘discounts’ on some policies.

Many good insurance brokers might be able to log any tracker that’s not on the official industry list as ‘Other Tracking Device’. It’s impossible to say whether any security will generate some form of discount on your individual policy as there are far too many variables that all contribute to the price.

However, I’d always recommend that you invest in the best security you can afford not for a discount, but to significantly reduce the chances of suffering the hassle and heart-ache of a theft, and to help protect your future policy prices and No-Claims Discount (NCD).

Trackting only allows five alert calls to be answered each month

Three alternatives to the Trackting One

Some people don’t want a tracker as they claim they wouldn’t want their bike back if it was stolen. But having one could alert you before it’s taken, or potentially get you your motorcycle back with little or no damage. Depending how important your bike is to you, that can be worth the investment alone. A good tracker could also lead to the conviction of the criminal gang responsible…

• Monimoto, £129 & £39/year | Monimoto is Trackting’s most obvious competitor and it’s a very well-established device that offers pretty much the same performance at the same price (at the time of writing it’s on sale at £109). Monimoto also has a rider key fob, so arms and disarms automatically. In my testing, when the bike was in the garage it gave an alert within one minute, whereas Trackting took two and a half (the bike was outside by then). Monimoto has no limit to the number of alert calls it can make in a month. Read the full review of Monimoto here.

• BikeTrac Lite, £199 + fitting + £60/year | This is a pro-fit tracker that doesn’t feature the pinpoint-accurate RF detection of the full Biketrac (which costs £299 plus fitting and £99/year), but it is Thatcham approved, so should be recognised by insurers. While a monitoring team is on hand to liaise with the police, with this more basic device you need to call them if your bike is stolen: they won’t call you first. The main disadvantage is that the alerts are in the form of a push-notification, which could be easy to miss if you’re asleep. Read the full review of BikeTrac Lite here.

• Datatool / BikeTrac professional trackers, around £300 + fitting + around £100/year | A fully monitored tracker like those from the market leaders Biketrac and Datatool offers far greater accuracy, a dedicated 24/7 monitoring team that will call you if they detect any suspected theft, and a much better chance of getting your bike back thanks to close links with the Police, who trust these companies and will do all they can to respond as the chance of an arrest is high. Both brands have their own pros and cons, but these are the best options if you’re serious about protecting your motorcycle. To decide whether Datatool or Biketrac is best for you, check out our unbiased guide to the best motorcycle trackers here.

These are just three of many alternatives – you can find all the trackers we’ve tested here  and be sure to regularly check for the discounts available through Bikesocial membership.

Trackting One review: Verdict

Trackting One does a good job of monitoring your bike and alerting you if anybody is interfering with it. And if it does get taken, the tracking is pretty accurate even inside a van.

False alarms seem unlikely, but the restriction to just five calls a month is disappointing. Of course, Trackting wants to keep its costs under control but if your quota gets used up in one month due to false alarms (however unlikely), the sixth could be the time a real theft happens and you perhaps don’t notice the push notification until you get up in the morning. The lack of historical movement data has the potential to arguably be a bigger issue in some cases, but I hope this will be addressed in a future update as I can’t see any obvious technical reason why it couldn’t.

I do appreciate the rapid alert to vibration of the bike that the Trackting can offer, and it’s worth considering as long as you’re aware of its foibles, but it’s up against some very stiff competition.

Devices like Trackting can certainly help find your bike in what are the most common theft scenarios, but there’s a reason why professionally-monitored trackers cost about £100 a year – the information available to the 24/7 team will make it much more likely that they can lead the Police (or the recovery agents) directly to where the bike last gave a strong signal, which massively increases the chances of getting it back while it’s still in one piece, and even taking down a criminal gang. For more information on tracking systems, click here.

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