Re: Stolen disc brake

Chris Wheeler said:

Thanks Tim, that looks ideal. I thought I might end up digging out the
old soldering iron :o)

In case anybody's interested, I've had a look at some suggestions people
have made for bike alarms.
Tim's suggestion is ideal for what I want, although if you don't want to
build it yourself, and don't mind the unit being stand-alone (i.e. no
remote alarm), the Cy-Curity or Ducharme would be more appropriate.

Name: Wireless Bike Alarm (DIY)
URL: http://www.nervouscyclist.org/bike_alarm.htm
Mk II: http://www.nervouscyclist.org/bike_alarm_v2.htm
Price: Depends on cost of parts.
Features:
* Remote alarm
* Exactly what I'm looking for
* DIY

Name: Cy-Curity
URL: http://www.cy-curity.com/
Price:
Alarm: 49.95 USD
Shipping: 9.95 USD
Total: 59.90 USD
Features:
* water-resistant
* 110db siren
* remote activation
* adjustable sensitivity

Name: Ducharme Alarm System
URL: http://www.ducharmeprotectionsystems.com/
Price: (not sure what the currency is)
Alarm: 19.95 UKP/EURO?
Shipping: 4.95 UKP/EURO?
Total: 24.90 UKP/EURO?
Features:
* false alarm trigger
* auto-armament
* 125db double siren

Name: United Kingdom Multimedia Choice
URL: http://www.ukmc.co.uk/
Price:
Camera+TX+RX: 31.99 UKP
Monitor: 74.99 UKP
Shipping 4.00 UKP
Total: 110.98 UKP
Features:
* Miniature CCTV camera
* Transmitter
* Receiver
* 2" TFT monitor

Name: Bike Guard
URL: http://www.mstinternational.com/
Price: 199.00 UKP (+shipping?) On-line shop was broken when I tried.
Features:
* Mobile-phone based
* Sends text message when bike is tampered with
* Can determine physical location using GSM network,
but only by phoning a premium rate number.
* Probably more suited to motorbikes.

-Chris

Chris Wheeler said:

Chris Wheeler said:

Thanks Tim, that looks ideal. I thought I might end up digging out the
old soldering iron :o)

In case anybody's interested, I've had a look at some suggestions people
have made for bike alarms.
Tim's suggestion is ideal for what I want, although if you don't want to
build it yourself, and don't mind the unit being stand-alone (i.e. no
remote alarm), the Cy-Curity or Ducharme would be more appropriate.

Two big problems with alarms. One is nobody takes any notice. Second
is that the scallies will trigger an alarm, wait and see if anyone
responds and if not go about their nefarious art confident that the
owner is not in the immediate vicinity.

--
Tony

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord
Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)

Er, not the most elegant solution perhaps but it worked on my
motorcycles for years........ Find a padlock with a bolt that will fit
through one of the holes in the disk,then go to a climbing shop and get
a piece of stranded metal cable (Ask for nuts, it doesnt matter what
they are, they'll point you in the right direction) with an eyehole at
each end.
Then bolt of padlock through hole in disk and both eyeholes in cable,
make sure the cable is fastened to the same thing as you fasten your
lock to, even if your thieving little git can get the disk off, they
still have to cut through the lock or cable to take the disk away, and
theres no point stealing the caliper if you cant get the disk, Tah dah.