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MoAZeR
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PostPosted: 22:35 - 09 Nov 2016    Post subject: anyone in london to help Reply with quote
hi guys got yamaha yzf r125 thinking of installing an alarm would anyone be able to help install one like spy 5000m i am close to wembley could ride to yours also could pay/
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Adrian
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arry
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PostPosted: 08:00 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wouldn't bother fella. They're a pain, and nobody will even care when it goes off and the bike gets stuffed into back of a van.

Alarmed disc lock would have same effect just cheaper and less annoying.
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Snowdonia Rider
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PostPosted: 08:58 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
You'll want to throw the bike in the Thames after a month of having an alarm.
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angryjonny
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PostPosted: 09:43 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
My wife had an alarm on her YBR. There was never any juice left in the battery when she wanted to start it.
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Motorhate
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PostPosted: 10:28 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Snowdonia Rider wrote:
You'll want to throw the bike in the Thames after a month of having an alarm.


This x1000.

Got one on the ER-6 and no matter how many times I think I've disarmed it, it always goes off when I turn the key. Grrrrr !!!
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andys675
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PostPosted: 10:49 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
tracker, have a look at faceburk page for road-angel or datatool trakking
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tom_e
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PostPosted: 11:51 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought this was going to be another casting call for drizzleacquaintance Laughing

As others have said the only thing alarms are good for is killing your battery and pissing off the actual owner.
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notbike
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PostPosted: 13:54 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
ITT: Don't buy a cheap shit alarm, or if you are gonna cheap out, buy an alarmed disc lock.

Or if you want to splash get the alarm I have had for over 2 years on 1 bike and recently on a second bike and have never had any problems with.
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arry
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PostPosted: 14:01 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Meef wrote:

Or if you want to splash get the alarm I have had for over 2 years on 1 bike and recently on a second bike and have never had any problems with.


The Sigma (IIRC) I had on the GPZ used to just go randomly bonkers in the garage overnight, for no reason at all. PITA.

The Datatool that was standard fit on the Sprint I had died in 2011 (14,000 miles, 4 ish year old bike) and left the bike stranded on my mate's driveway. The truth of it is, that taking it out entirely was as simple as removing seat, removing tank, unclipping loom and bridging two pins - I could do that at the roadside in less than 5 minutes I reckon. And surprisingly, whilst I was working on mine, nobody came over to bother me about stealing it.
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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 14:03 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fit alarm.
be happy for a week
remove alarm
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M.C
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PostPosted: 16:32 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
tom_e wrote:
As others have said the only thing alarms are good for is killing your battery and pissing off the actual owner.

And all your neighbours.
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angryjonny
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PostPosted: 17:15 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
tom_e wrote:
As others have said the only thing alarms are good for is killing your battery

Technically this does make the bike a bit harder to steal...
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thx1138
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
arry wrote:
Wouldn't bother fella. They're a pain, and nobody will even care when it goes off and the bike gets stuffed into back of a van.

Alarmed disc lock would have same effect just cheaper and less annoying.


yeah, what he said

cheapo alarmed lock, they have them in Aldi/Lidls sometimes.

You can even use them to lock through the eyelits of a motorcycle cover

I bought a 2nd hand hornet with a pre-fitted alarm, and it was a royal pain the bum Thumbs Down Flat battery one time.

Batteries in the alarm fob wore out, and couldn't start my bike another time.

Went off too often, and when it did zero interest was shown my neighbourly curtain twitchers.

I'm fairly sure my neighbours would peer out the window at the sound of angle grinders attacking my chains.
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bacon
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PostPosted: 18:53 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
My old zx7r alarm had a disabled Datatool alarm that would beep every 30 seconds or so, very audibly. When buying it the owner handed me everything, including 2 fobs, saying they need batteries to operate, so for now the alarm is in valet mode (hence the beeping to inform you to re arm it).

I was satisfied at the time, on getting it home from Doncaster to Exeter, (fair few hours riding I tell you!), the beep had already started to drive me insane. It happened even with the bike running. I went and bought a battery to get the fob going, no go, tried a different type, no go. Basically the fobs were both kaput.

So this led me to inquiring about having the alarm removed. Dealers generally were not interested, quoting me £200 to remove it. At the time I was pretty poor and not very mechanically inclined, (mature student studying full time) so I did the pikey version. I got some torx bits and opened up the alarm case and ripped the speaker out of it.

Hurrah! No more loud beep, it was instead replaced with a very slightly audible electrical beep, no idea what on the circuit board was making the noise, but I could only hear it when working on the bike and had my head up against it.

Oh and it drained the battery over winter several times.


So err yeh, TL:DR: fuck alarms
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notbike
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PostPosted: 19:25 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
arry wrote:
The Sigma (IIRC) I had on the GPZ used to just go randomly bonkers in the garage overnight, for no reason at all. PITA.

The Datatool that was standard fit on the Sprint I had died in 2011 (14,000 miles, 4 ish year old bike) and left the bike stranded on my mate's driveway. The truth of it is, that taking it out entirely was as simple as removing seat, removing tank, unclipping loom and bridging two pins - I could do that at the roadside in less than 5 minutes I reckon. And surprisingly, whilst I was working on mine, nobody came over to bother me about stealing it.


Never had the first problem with this alarm, never goes off even in super windy weather, but if you tap the seat or kick the wheel or move the handlebars it goes nuts, or if you stand next to it too long when proximity sensor is toggled on, but most of the time I leave the promixity setting off because loads of people walk past my bike.

I also unplugged the power cable once (mistook it for something else) and it destroyed my ears cause it has it's own inbuilt battery. So if a thief tried to unplug it without setting it off, I'd know anyway. You can't take the battery out either unless you physically smash it to bits.

The point of the alarm I have anyway is the fact that I have the key fob telling me if my bikes been touched without me having to be within ear shot of the bike, so I can rest assured that nobody's gone and touched the bike in any way so long as that fob doesn't go off.
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Alpineandy
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PostPosted: 21:28 - 10 Nov 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you're thinking about the alarm because the bikes parked outside over-night. If it's parked on a driveway or in your front garden then a ground anchor / big hardened chain / padlock are usually a better investment.
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