Key takeaways
- Otrac's standard bike tracker starts from ₦99,900 for the first year, then ₦34,900 a year to renew.
- That first-year price covers the hidden anti-jammer unit, an NCC-registered SIM, fitting, and live tracking, 24/7.
- Hidden fitting is the part that matters on a bike, because a unit a thief spots and rips out stops reporting.
- The unit is wired in and charges as you ride, so it will not run your battery flat when the bike is parked.
Why bikes and okadas get stolen
A motorcycle is light, fast, and easy to hide. A thief can ride it off in seconds and lose it in traffic before anyone in the area even reacts.
It is also harder to secure than a car. No locked cabin, no heavy frame to drag, just a machine that fires up and goes. That low effort is exactly what makes it attractive to take.
There is a ready market behind it too. A stolen bike sells whole in one town or gets stripped for parts that move fast and quiet in another. In busy cities, an okada parked outside a shop for two minutes is a target most owners badly underestimate.
If you ride for work, the loss cuts deeper. The bike is the job. Take the bike and you take the rider's earnings with it, sometimes for weeks while they try to recover or replace it.
What a bike tracker costs
Here is the honest pricing, the same model we use for cars. Our standard tracker starts from N99,900 for the first year. After that it is N34,900 a year to renew.
That first-year figure is not just a box on a shelf. It covers the hidden anti-jammer unit, an NCC-registered SIM, the fitting done properly, and live tracking, 24/7. The renewal in following years keeps the SIM live and the live location working for you.
The cheap market box is cheap for a reason. There is no live location to give the appropriate security authorities, no anti-jammer build, and nothing you can act on at 2am when your bike is gone.
That is the difference riders miss when they chase the lowest price. A market box can show a dot for a while, then go silent under a jammer with no live location to follow. The live tracking is the part you are really paying for.
Premium units are by quote, for riders who want more than the standard build. You can see the full breakdown on our pricing page, and the dedicated bike tracking page covers exactly what gets fitted on a two-wheeler. Every unit carries a two-year warranty.
Hidden fitting on a bike
A bike has far less room than a car, so the fitting takes a careful hand. The whole point is that the unit stays out of sight where the thief never thinks to look.
Our fitters tuck it away where a thief cannot quickly spot it or rip it out. This matters more on a bike than on a car. A tracker a thief finds and pulls in ten seconds is a tracker that stops reporting, and then you have paid for nothing. A hidden one keeps feeding location after the bike is taken, which is the only version worth having.
We come to you for the fitting, so you do not have to drop your bike off at a workshop and lose a day of riding. The fitter meets you where you are, fits the unit out of sight, and you keep working.
Battery and charging
Riders ask this one a lot, and it is a fair worry. A bike battery is smaller than a car's, so nobody wants a gadget quietly draining it.
The unit draws only a small amount of power and is wired into the bike, so it charges itself while you ride. Day to day you will not notice it is there.
Parked, it sits quietly without running your battery flat overnight. And the anti-jammer design means it keeps trying to report even when someone tries to block the signal, which is the exact part that matters on the night it counts. A bike that stays online is a bike that can still be found.
If the bike is stolen
The order matters here, so commit it to memory now. Open the Otrac app to pull the live location, then call the appropriate security authorities.
The unit turns the bike into a moving dot on a screen. You give that live location to the appropriate security authorities, who can act on it and follow the point in real time, instead of a cold report you chase the next morning.
I will be straight with you. No serious provider promises every bike comes home. What changes your odds is a unit that stays live, a SIM that does not get blocked, and a live location you can hand the appropriate security authorities.
The SIM side matters more than people think. The Nigerian Communications Commission is the regulator behind the mobile networks the tracker rides on, and an NCC-registered SIM is part of what keeps it reporting cleanly instead of dropping off. The cheap units often skip that, and it shows on the night you need them.
Riders in Lagos and beyond
If you ride in the city, the routes thieves use are well worn and the risk is real every day. Our Lagos tracking page shows how we cover that ground, and we fit across 16 cities the same careful way, coming to you wherever you ride.
If you also run a car alongside the bike, two reads are worth your time. Start with what a car tracker really costs in Nigeria so you can compare the two, then read the most stolen cars in Nigeria so you know what the thieves are after on four wheels as well as two.
