Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Utter Tosh!

I've left my bike for 2 months untouched (sad days) without putting it on winter mode; and then it started instantly. That's with a system IV on a k6.

Often when I leave my bike in public places and come back, the alarm beeps to let me know it's been touched. On my old un-alarmed bike I often used to come out the supermarket to find hordes of kids clambering over it. This have never happened with the alarmed bike.

Whilst it won't stop a determined thief, it'll let me know if someones trying to remove the three chains on it from where it is kept outside my window at night. This buys me long enough to grab the baseball bat, get naked, have a whisky and pull my 'possessed' face in to action.