Alarm systems?

[Arctic Fox]

Internet is full of cheap alarm system sets. Anybody installed/experienced of those? Do they do any good?

[Pdmartin]

Just don’t get one with a proximity or motion detector. Don’t remember what brand it was but I had one one my Aspencade. Every time someone or even a dog walked by it would trigger. Even wind gusts set it off. All the false alarms made it pretty useless.

[RinkRat II]

     Save your money and install a hidden switch that disables the fuel pump.  My $.02

      Paul B

[Navydad]

Just don’t get one with a proximity or motion detector. Don’t remember what brand it was but I had one one my Aspencade. Every time someone or even a dog walked by it would trigger. Even wind gusts set it off. All the false alarms made it pretty useless.

Idiot that had the Aspencade before you found that out pretty quickly Seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
These days it's an insurance policy and a credit card for me. My non Guzzi ride is a Can Am Spyder that had a factory anti theft system. I had it disabled because it had a tendency to fail and leave me stranded. Problem with my V7 is that two big ole boys with a pick up or trailer can have it and be gone in a minute alarm or not. We try to stay one step ahead of the bad guys, but sometimes I think we are a step behind.

[Kiwi_Roy]

No self respecting crook would steal a Guzzi 

Having said that I like this idea

     Save your money and install a hidden switch that disables the fuel pump.  My $.02

      Paul B

[Chuck in Indiana]

You can't trade Guzzi parts for crack..

[Lannis]

My plan (and it's been working for 50 years, half a million miles, and two continents) is to not live in a place where there's an alarm-sized chance that your bike will be stolen, and don't park your bike in places where there's an alarm-sized chance that it might be stolen.

Of course, when you measure "quality of life" in inverse proportion to the chances of your stuff being burgled, you have to make some choices that everyone's not prepared to make, but the good news is that it hasn't backfired ...

Not a direct answer to the OP, I know.   But not off-topic, either.

Lannis

[moto]

I have one, a Gorilla alarm, installed in my Griso. The only time it ever provides a modicum of comfort is when my bike is parked outside my motel room door in the middle of nowhere. Then I hope the alarm will rouse me enough to turn on the light, maybe open the door, and, I hope, flush the bad guys. Never has happened, though. The tendency of its key fob switch to accidentally activate the alarm motivated me to install an on/off switch to completely disable it most of the time.

I probably wouldn't install one again, but it's a close call because of those lonely motel rooms out there.

Moto

[Lannis]

I probably wouldn't install one again, but it's a close call because of those lonely motel rooms out there.

Moto

That IS an issue, but it's really great the change over the last 40 years in the acceptance of motorcycles at motels/hotels.   Never happened to this clean-cut young man, but I used to hear horror stories from friends about being sent on down the road and not allowed a room once the manager found you were on a bike.

A couple of friends from England and I were touring the Northeast on our old BSAs, and we stopped at a high-rise Sheraton right next to Niagara Falls.   Without us even asking, the desk clerk offered to let us park our bikes under the marquee right at the main entrance to the hotel, brightly lit, on camera, and in view of the desk.   I demurred at first, saying that we didn't want our un-housetrained old bikes to pee Castrol all over the nice white concrete, but he waved that off and said they were used to it and would clean it up, and that people would enjoy seeing the antique (1955, 1961, 1969) bikes there.

Most places these days will let you do that, some with more grace than others .... !

Lannis

[Sasquatch Jim]

My two Russian bikes had a toggle switch on the ground side of the battery.  Nobody ever figured out why the bike wouldn't start.
  They probably figured it was just a glitch in he electrics.  After all it was Russian.