Fri Jul 4 03:59:19 1997 - Message No. 1130
From: Katsanos Phoebus

Subject: Re: Theft and anti-burglar system


At 09:59 μμ 1/7/1997 +-200, you wrote:
I once had a problem with my Transalp lock and when i saw how easy the
electrician  turned it on i was glad i had an allarm on it and in my Africa too!
Also, a friend of mine in the 1996 Greek bikers meeting lost the key of his
AT and we tryed other keys. Result, 1 in about 4 honda keys would open his
lock, and 1 in about 10 would also fit to his tank lock so we were also able
to fuel him up!!!!
Also, i once saw a cheap alarm being turned off simply by disconnecting and
connecting the power supply back very fast!!!! It just made a very short
"blip" and it was disabled!
An other way to disable cheap alarms is by braking the flash light, removing
the light bulb, putting there a pice of aluminum foil and then kick the
bike. The alarm goes off, it turns on the flash light, makes a short -> boom!!!

General idea: Get a good alarm AND a good lock AND USE them!!!!!
A thief can alway steal your bike even with those precautions, but as long
as you make it harder for him to steal yours than the next guys you should
be safe!

I have a GT allarm witch is quite good, with antiscanner but, with sepparate
siren (with its own power supply of course) and this makes it too big,
bought it for about 500 DM.
I think the new Dobbermann is also good, very compact and with good
characteristics, and it costs here about 375 DM
Also, i heard good things about Spyball, and maby Sakis can write to you
about the once he installs, the Patrol. He says they also are quite good.

So keep locking!
Never leave your bike unlocked, a kid can steal it just for fun!!!!


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