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you have for your motorcycle, the great cost and Basic Disc Locks & Disk Alarm Locks
protection you are going to have to take to make These are the first level or the very basic defence
sure it is safe. deterrent. However, if you are going
this way, save your money from
In this article we will look at a going with the “alarm disk locks” all
number of security devices so that the makes and brands we tested,
you will get a rating of where you including Xena, the alarm sometimes
feel best being at to stop thieves. If worked and sometimes didn’t. About
you have a stock bike with great 50/50. In fact, we found them a pain
insurance with not much personal in the ass arming them and trying to
attachment, then perhaps a basic find out why they didn’t arm or work.
deterrent is good enough for you. If on the other We spent more time with these than any other
hand, you have a bike you like and you have put a security device only to come to the conclusion that a
lot of money into it you will want disk lock provides basic security, the
heavier security. And lastly, look at disk lock alarm, if it works is great,
some of those Harleys out there that but not dependable and for us not
have so much custom hard to find worth paying the extra fee for the
accessories, paint, custom this and alarm only to find later that you are
that where this bike would be going to take the battery out and not
considered irreplaceable....the you use it. The alarm should be 120Db or
need the highest level of security. higher which the Xena was. Others
fell short, but all alarms in our opinion
While it is true “sport bikes” are a were flawed.There are also videos
number one target, the reason for out there that show how easy it is to
this is demand and the fact that two break a disk lock with 2 flat head
or three guys can simply lift them into the back of a screw drivers. Basic protection from rolling yoour
pickup truck or van in 2 minutes and bike away, so it would have to be
be at their rip down in 15 lifted unless thieves did break the
minutes....maybe. lock.
But while there are a lot of thieves Chain Locks
that are comlete dummies, there are Chain locks are good for at home or if
many that know all about GPS on a trip to another city and you are
tracking and what, how, when and away from your bike, you can chain
where to get their next pockeful of to a post or tree etc. I know...whatt?
cash. But if you are away overnite at lets
say a friends, chain the bike to a
Also there is a difference between fence or something. Its a deterrent. A
stealing a bike in Canada vs stealing a bike in the steering lock can be broken by sitting on the seat
USA. One big detterent down there....guns. Not so with your legs up and fee on the bars, it snaps in
much here. But don’t think any biker is going to let seconds. What you don’t want is peopel to wheel it
his bike get jacked to easily. away, down the street into a van.
Chain locks are also good in an underground
Ok, so now that we have said that lets talk about garage. Some people will have a chock in a parking
security levels and the products in each. Remember spot that is wide and hard to manipulate and then
no security system is perfect, but we will do our best the front wheel chained to the chock. The problem
to show you a near perfect system. with chains, even the heaviest, is that they can be
