Gossy
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Best to book a ground floor motel accessible room, ride the bike straight in, then no need to remove the panniers, alternatively relax and forget or take the bus.
Should Ihave BMW alarm fitted ?
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Not with you on that one. In my view, a correctly fitted and set-up alarm will do its job with little fuss. Frankly, I can't work out why you wouldn't make it as hard as possible for them...maybe you haven't had enough bikes stolen from you or you live in a better place than London
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Not with you on that one. In my view, a correctly fitted and set-up alarm will do its job with little fuss. Frankly, I can't work out why you wouldn't make it as hard as possible for them...maybe you haven't had enough bikes stolen from you or you live in a better place than London
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So, are you saying that people take notice of bike alarms in London?
I've working in London for 40 years. IMHO nobody pays any attention to alarms - bikes, cars, shops etc etc.
I've working in London for 40 years. IMHO nobody pays any attention to alarms - bikes, cars, shops etc etc.
Somebody might,which includes myself...and I still think a scraot would choose one without an alarm over one with.
But I know what you're saying and is depressing
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The days of thieving little scrotes nicking your bike to joy ride round the fields on are way behind us. Bike theft is now a professional job with bikes nicked for shipment abroad or stripping for parts or both.
If these thieving bastards want your bike it is a fair certainty that they will have it regardless. The best you can hope for is to slow them down sufficiently for someone to intervene but if they turn up mob handed with the requisite gear to have it away they will, alarm or no alarm, chain or no chain.
If these thieving bastards want your bike it is a fair certainty that they will have it regardless. The best you can hope for is to slow them down sufficiently for someone to intervene but if they turn up mob handed with the requisite gear to have it away they will, alarm or no alarm, chain or no chain.
As soon as I hear an alarm I tool up and going looking for scum. It's what bikers do, mate.
Well, that's a little defeatist, even if i agree with you about it being a 'profession'.
If i saw a bunch of them having a go I'd be at least filming them/calling the police/let them know they've be seen...not sure I'm about to lay into a load of blokes on my own tho!
Even with the right gear they can be slowed down, at least i like to think so.
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Chain or alarm how long does it take two or three blokes to lift up a bike and sling it in the back of a van...... 20 seconds at the most.
Add another 20 seconds if the bike is chained to anything, a 9 inch portable angle grinder isn't going to hang about cutting through any chain regardless what the manufacturers claim.
If you hear the alarm going off by the time you've looked around it'll already be in the van and be driving off, the alarm will take another 10 seconds to silence once in the van.
Add another 20 seconds if the bike is chained to anything, a 9 inch portable angle grinder isn't going to hang about cutting through any chain regardless what the manufacturers claim.
If you hear the alarm going off by the time you've looked around it'll already be in the van and be driving off, the alarm will take another 10 seconds to silence once in the van.
Wow, that there London sounds grim and defeatist, might as well leave the keys in the ignition and a pile of money on the bike seat. You are most probable correct in that case but an alarm and chain fitted to a bike parked up while in a small town/village while on a European tour may mean your bike is left unmolested.
Alan R
Now i feel really depressed.
I'm going to have another beer, but I'll pop back first and put the keys in the ignition
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ButtonMoon
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No !! I had a BMW alarm fitted to my 14 GSA it was shit, no key fob it sets automatically. I'd pull up for fuel, take key out of ignition open tank filler, the alarm would set, move bike slightly it goes off, switched the alarm off completely after a month.
iand46
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Think you can buy a BMW remote & have it programmed to your bike.
Sounds like the alarm was operating as designed - therefore not shit at all. All you have described is operator error. They can be set to arm on command with a fob. No fob? Get one from BMW. Then read the manual and set it to perform how you want it to.
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ButtonMoon
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No Deffo shit. Auto sets in less than 5 seconds, no fob with alarm, it's a fobless alarm !
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iand46
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Early WC owners were using LT key fobs for their non fob alarms. There's threads on here somewhere
Why get a bmw alarm? As i mentioned earlier, there are other vendors out there and their offerings sound a whole lot better than what you've described!
Alternatively, do something yourself that would stall the scroats for longer because it's non standard?
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Alternatively, do something yourself that would stall the scroats for longer because it's non standard?
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Bendy toy
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As already said a tracker makes far more sense. Of course they can be found and chucked away but there are places on the bike tat will take a good wheel to reach giving tome for police or friends from low places to find the bike.
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