As some of you may know I have not always had the best of luck with with motor cycles being borrowed, GLaDOS and Steph for example,

Since we passed our big bike tests, nbHacker and I have had another bike stolen (RIP Charlie). with the help of Random Zero we have acquired a temporary replacement; Bertha, she is a Suzuki GS550 ES.

Bertha Bike is the first Motorcycle I have ever had with a phone number, she has a phone number because I picked up one of these: “GPS Car Tracker with GPRS and Vehicle Theft Protection System[link]”

The GPS Tracker in its box:

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The cheapest  pay as you go phone for texts I could find:

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4p per SMS, the sim card has about £10 on it 🙂

Testing at HacMan:

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If you get bored you can now find the location of HacMAN (hint instructions can be found here).

Fitting

This was just a case of finding somewhere on the bike to stuff it and connect it up to 12v

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Working?

To make the bike tell you where she is, all you do is give her a quick call; after three rings she hangs up on you (she is not very talkative), then she texts you back with her current location, and a link to google maps.