Maplins..bike alarm?

JodieWodie · Reflective Banana Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Someone I know from work, (but cannot get hold of), said he got some kind of alarm from Maplins electrics shop for his Thundercat.
He said it was only £15 and it works on the basis of a level, and if the bike moves, alarm sounds.

Now, I have looked and cannot find it.
I basically need some kind of cheapish alarm for the FZR.

It will be out front, so it needs securing.
We are concreting a ground anchor in today, buying another chain, a disc lock too.

Any help greatly appreciated,

J xx
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rK@NE · Nova Slayer Joined: 09 May 2005 Karma :

I've had a look and I can't see any prebuilt alarm systems although there is a motorbike alarm module (Order code: N80AW) which connects between the battery and the horn. When there is movement the connection is made in the module and the horn goes off. You'll also have to buy a switch to put in line with the module so you can turn it off if it's been activated.

It's not ideal but the module is only £3.99 and a switch would cost less than a quid, just takes a little effort to set it up thats all.

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

You can get a cheap alarm on ebay for about £25.
These are 'proper' bike alarms, with imobaliser and usually fancy bits like remote start as well.

Dave-O · Nova Slayer Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Karma :

What I dont understand is why people spend thousands on a bike, then 20 quid on a cheapo alarm.

As soon as I got my bike, I had a Datatool 3 fitted. If your bike cost 30 quid then o.k get a cheap system.
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lurker · Trackday Trickster Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Karma :

something i didnt realise b4 with alarms is that most of them including datatool which i found out to my expense only have a 3 to 4 year life on the bike.
you just have to hope that they dont go when youre miles from home
cause its a bugger to take them out and redo the wiring on the bike.
didnt believe this and thought i'd just got a dodgy one but various bike shops have since told me the same thing.

tatters · Exxon Valdez Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Karma :

the 8 year old datatool system on my ZZR250 worked fine, as long as the fob batterys are ok they should last as long as any other electrical part of the bike.
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JodieWodie · Reflective Banana Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Thanks for all that..

The dealer said that alarms drain the battery dreadfully.
In fact, while we were there, he went to four bikes that had alarms on and all their batteries were knackered.

True ?
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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

scottiel · Trackday Trickster Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Karma :

I put an ACUMEN on my FZR, bought it for £70.00 brand new and bought a tricklie charger to match for £30.00. I put the trickle charger on the bike once a week over night and it does the trick.

mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Unfortuneately nobody takes the tinyest bit of notice when an alarm goes off, house alarms, car alarms, all just get ignored...

Only way i'd bother is with a pager attached, so you can go and give the tea leafts a good kicking youself...

Actually considering geting a baby monitor and putting that on the bike...

Imobilisers will only stop opertunist pikeys, even then allot will get arround it..

The according to a guy i spoke to working at a dealership, vast majority of bikes going into there that wont run 70% of them are down to dead batterys from alarms or mainly imobilisers Rolling Eyes

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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

I've got an alarm so that I will take notice (and for the tarty remote start Smile

).

Hopefully it would at least give a causual thief some second thoughts, so they move on to another bike.

zaknafien · Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Karma :

easy · Derestricted Danger Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Karma :

OK one night during the winter, I walked up to the company car-park and found that some pikey had put my window through, smashed the steering lock and ignition and tried to have it away with my 14-year-old astra.

The car has a 2.0l engine, so I had a cat 1 fitted and a mul-T-loc (like a large U bolt thet goes round the gear-lever).

Undo the Mul-T-loc, check the steering is OK and then I jammed a screwdriver into the ignition and drove home.

If I hadn't have had the alarm I'd have had to either get the bus/taxi or wait for the Mrs to pick me up.

In my opinion alarm/immobilisers are worth having if for no other reason than they help stop have-a-go pikeys from getting lucky and reduce the risk of you being seriously put out by having no bike (or in this case, car), not to mention a lot of arse-ache with the insurance (if/when the find the sooty, blackened mess that was once your pride and joy).

Each to their own though.