How much would your bike need to be worth...

[Fub@r]

................before you would buy an alarm?

What percentage of bike value would you be prepared to spend on an alarm for your precious?

[Wenier]

Eh alarms are for people who park in bad places.

[Whynot]

There are no good places in auckland .....

[Grahameeboy]

Ask Liam..he paid $1400 for a Triumph alarm......I got a Mongoose for $350......guess it is worth it to stop some bozo's fiddling

[Hitcher]

It's not just a matter of value. British bikes and Harleys are nickable because they're desirable, irrespective of age. Anything smaller than 150cc is nickable because it's portable. For anything else, save the money you'd spend on an alarm and buy a disc lock. Your bike only needs to be 3% harder to abscond with than the one parked next to it.

[Grahameeboy]

There are no good places in auckland .....

Where are the bad places then...??

[Brett]

Where are the bad places then...??

Pretty much anywhere in town, central, south or west from what i hear.

I am looking at getting an alarm for the gixxer, and that is only worth 12k. Would have to be a good alarm to stop someone knicking it i guess, bikes are very easily stolen.
I am looking at a way of passing live current, such as an electric fence to the bare metal, but realistically i dont think this would work, then there is always the young kid that will go all 'look at the m.bike mummy' and go and touch it and get a shock, then i will be in the shitter. Not such a good idea i suppose.

How good are good bike alarms? I know the one on my cage is pretty much theif proof, the only way that it can be picked off is to be taken othe back of a truck.

[Fub@r]

For me something would be better than nothing.

Leaving my Ginny somewhere wasnt really an issue (obvious reasons). But now getting a bike that looks more attractive to steal I feel I need to do something.

Just had a look at Cycletreads and they have an alarm at $499, then they have a massive range of Disc Locks in a varietry of shapes and sizes some of which come with shock and movement sensors and 110db audible alarms.

Might go and have a look tomorrow.

Can anyone recommend a Disc Lock brand?

[jeremysprite]

Lol that'd be so funny, Small Child Electrocuted Today - By Motorcycle.

[gamgee]

Can anyone recommend a Disc Lock brand?

xena x11 motion detecting disklock, alarmed, around $150 new

[Cajun]

In NZ bigger size sport bikes are not often stolen(not saying they are not but its rare) 250/400 you hear about alot, and harleys, british bikes(very easy to steal) and dirt bikes are the biggest things in nz.

I have leaved keys in my 600 in middle of tauranga, before, same previous 1100 and still there few hours later.

A disc lock if you are worried, if they want your bike that much an alarm is not gonna stop them

[Fub@r]

Think its more of a stop or slow down the casual thief, a determined pro will get it regardless of what you do

[gijoe1313]

Yeah, I get paranoid when I leave my ride in Central. I have a disc lock and a cable for the rear to loop around that metal bar where Auckland Library is! I basically do it in the *hope* that thieves will look for an easier target

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Alarms only stop honest thives.. and slow down the determin ed theif... Where I live we hear car alarms go off regular... every time a truck or bus goes past... I could tell you the difference if it was set off from the truck or someone stealing it...

[TLDV8]

Van,stop,bike in the back,gone...A disc lock won't help much there.
I guess any deterrent is better than nothing.
Of course with the various power tools available (like top end Sabre saws) you could cut though a wheel,frame or disc in seconds to remove locks