If I may consider an option for those of you interested in an additional layer of protection.
Check out
Open GPS Tracker
I have a friend who has one and he loves it.
I have a GPS tracking device as well. It's disguised as a performance addon. I won't say which one but in a bike with a TRE, power commander, autocomm, laser jammer etc it blends right in.
I can track the location of my bike in real time.
I had my bike stolen before, got a text alert at like 3:14am "GEOLOC not disabled, bike in motion"
I think I wrote about this previously not sure but here goes.
Text received 3:14am, look out my window, see a truck driving down the street with a tarp covering the back, I presume it's my bike back there.
Call 911, explain to the dispatcher that my bike was stolen etc but I have a gps tracking device onboard. I explain to her how it works etc. I ask her if she prefered email or txt. She makes a 6way connection with 4 officers, me and dispatch.
Dispatch asks me to say the location of the bike as it stands now, I name the street and one of the officers says i'm near the area and asks me how it works. I explain the codes to him and he asks to keep me on the line. I turn on the real time tracking feature and tell him the bikes going 35mph eastbown on dillingham blvd.
Cop tells me he's gonna put his lights on and cruise down the freeway to let me know if the vehicle is slowing down...So I tell him when the bike starts to slow down to 25mph. He tells me there's a truck with a tarp in the back...I tell him I can sound an alarm if he needs confirmation it's the right vehicle.
He pulls over the truck, I send a code to the bike and the alarm goes off. He instantly has probable cause to uncover the contents of the bed of the truck, there they find my bike and another motorcycle (probably stolen too) and I recover my bike, all in like 30-40 minutes time.
Opengps tracker is a ping pong style gps tracking device. You arm/disarm via text messages. if the bike goes in motion you get 1 minute updates to the location. You're best chance to catch someone is if they hit a freeway or take the bike to their home/chop shop. Then you you have a stationary reference to go with. 10$/month for 1000 pings. a whereru/iamhere check counts as 2 messages. arm/disarm are also messages (this is all done via text)
The style I go with is a sprint phone on a sero plan, 30$/month is unlimited text and data. I can do ping/pong style and real time tracking. A little easier to catch them in the chase. Since you can see right now where they are (instead of waiting 1 minute for the next update).
uke: atleast most of it will get paid off , but feel like I am going to get robbed twice !
don't want them to know how fast I am going. If the bike goes awol I can enable the realtime reporting then they'll know all the exact specifics.
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