Bike Alarm/Immobiliser system

[Jinxy43]

Afternoon

I have a lovely blue k7 650s, which at the moment is kept behind yards and yards of razor wired fencing, and then stored inside a hardened nuclear building, which is locked and I have the key for. (A bit drastict I know, but its the joys of being in the Raf)

Now my concern is next year I am moving way down south to the big smoke and I know for a fact the the Raf will not let me take my building with me. So to prevent some little scum bag (of which london has loads) walking away with my bike. I would like ideas bout alarms/immobilisers.

My bike will be garaged and locked up, but which companies are the best for bikes. As my bike is my pride and joy it will mean the misses having to go without her expensives shoes for awhile.

Any advice is greatly recievied
Jinxy

[timwilky]

Get a Meta one if you must have one. Rock solid. Never had any problems with the one I had.

Although a ground anchor and good chain would be far more use

[Dangerous Dave]

Although a ground anchor and good chain would be far more use
+ 1

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah a big hefty chain is IMO the best, that and some beefy ground anchors. (almax chains look to be the best)

I had plenty problems with a meta system alarm, they are great at annoying you and leaving you pushing the bike home.

[Nostrils]

I have a Datatool S4C, the newer version and so far has been great, doesnt drain the battery as the older versions used to (apparently). Same bike and colour as yours, its also garaged and chained (mostly to stop a 16yrd nephew from showing off to his mates!!)

[DoubleD]

I think a couple of big chains attached to a ground anchor will be better than an alarm as everyone ignors them.

Saying that I have both chain and alarm.

[kwak zzr]

i'd go big chain and ground anchor, alarms are a pain in the ar@e.

[richwill68]

Dude, do yourself a favour and stick to the physical security like big chains, ground anchors etc. Alarms are only good to you if you can hear them. Don't expect Joe Public to intervene if you are out of earshot! Be fair, how many times have you heard a vehicle alarm sounding and not bothered to go investigate? I rest my case.:cool:

Regards

Rich

[admin]

I have a datatool on my SV. It's a right royal pain. Never again. The reason I hate it, is that you can never actually turn the bloody thing off. Even in service mode it beeps away.

Invest in a good ground anchor and chain.

[SV PILOT]

On the subject of ground anchors, I want to invest in a decent one but do you know if I could use it in a wooden shed? How much are they? (estimate) cheers

[gettin2dizzy]

I've got a datatool S4 and it's ace. With my bike parked right outside my window I know if anyone touches it :) Needless to say it's chained up too.

[Jinxy43]

Been looking at ground anchors, and the prices are ranging from 30-80, try this link

http://www.sounddistribution.co.uk/products.asp?category=Motorcycle+Security&subcategory=Ground+Anchors

Gonna still get alarm, but when i move south it will be chained and anchored by the best I afford, although not sure myself yet

[blueto]

To be honest no matter what alarm or immmoboliser or anchor chain you get, if somone wants to nick your bike they will nick it.

Sounds a bit predantic sorry

[Jinxy43]

Aye thats true, but at least we can make it, as hard as possible for the little theaving scum-bags. Besides would you look at a bike that is anchored chained and possible alarmed, or would you try your luck at a bike that is not anchored or chained and just alarmed, if you were after a free bike.

[fatneck]

Don't do what I did with my ground anchor on the weekend, which is tighten one of the anchors up so much that it kind of 'snapped' inside and is now freely moving up and down a centimetre or so but is unable to be removed. DOH!

At least the other one is in and you can't slide the chain out from under it...

[scottjames]

Just this afternoon i, well my dad cut a meta alarm out of my curvey. not impressed with it at all. granted it came with the bike but its only ever been problems. The main one just not working therefor i had to leave it at my girlfriends last night and got it taken out today. This only took half hour because my dad is an alarm engineer for commercial security vehcals. I would recommend a data tool or a lazerline. iv got two lazerlines in other bikes and they are spot on (bout to put one in the curvey now aswell.) data tool tend to be expensive and hard to grasp as they have so many bleeps and noises.

i would get a decent chain and anchor aswell.

scott. :D