lojack??

[-ChaOs-]

lol what a retard!

[JoeR1]

Originally Posted by FrankieG

Lo-Jack SUX! If there was a way to have an on-star set up that's the way to go but LO-Jack almost never works...very low percentage!!!

Trust me there.....we get mabee 1 lojack hit a year but we get 5+ a month of onstar.......

What's up Frankie

That's good info, so you get a high percentage of bikes reported stolen with lojack that aren't recovered?

I'm not 100% sure but doesn't the police dept have to be equiped with the lojack recovery system too in order for it to work, you pretty much have to be in the area to get the signal, it's not like the onstar where they can pin point it anywhere right? I know around here a few people have been caught with them and some rings have been broken up.

[dizzie56]

plus you might wanna consider the fact that most theives would target the cars that have onstar allready put into them. hell, people would rather steal a navigator and chop that shit up than a ford pinto that has a low-crap system in it.

[TeaMoney]

Originally Posted by Towlieee

It MIGHT be worth it, or it might be $750 in the TRASH.


I guarantee 90% of theifs, will have your bike in parts and sold 2 hours after its stolen.


Hell, I bet most people, already have your bike SOLD before its stolen!


Lower insurance rates? I pay $240 a year




You're better off putting your bike inside

If some low rate theif that doesn't know what he is doing is stealing your bike and riding it around with a lojack on it, maybe you should re-think where you leave your bike.


If you park your bike in a halfway decent fasion, and aren't a idiot about it, the only people that will have a chance at it, are people who theif all the time.

And they wont care about lojack.





edit: and it doesn't matter if you can look at your bike TOGETHER and try to find it..

Most people that steel bikes, don't keep them in 1 peice like meth heads that steel cars...
They take that shit home, STRIP IT FAST... STRIP IT THAT day! and already have the frame in the river, motor sold, and a pile of parts you can't prove are yours

You grew up in one hell of a bad neighborhood didn't you . The only con is that you loose $500-$750 when you first put it on. The chances that somebody would steal your bike are pretty slim anyway, well depending on where you are from really. By the time the theif locates the lo-jack the police will already have the loaction. After all the cops use it on their cars so they are familiar with the system and grand theft is a pretty big offense.

Besides not all theives went to hijacking school, what if some punk kid just decides to joy ride it or if somebody wants to steal it and sell it on craigs list? Chances are that if your bike is stolen this will come in handy.

If you don't have that kind of money for a security system like that then just get an alarm system or something cheaper. Better idea, just be safe and put the bike in your garage at night!

I should make the club for bikes, I'd be a millionaire!

[Scrotious]

I had a bike stolen and recovered NINE hours later! The FRAME was recovered along with the lo-jack and some of the broken plastics from where they tossed it into a van AT THE MALL!!!! It was I guess stripped within a couple of hours. Amazing how fast they can come apart when you dont give a shit about messing things up to where you may not be able to put them back together....... Anyhow.........Lo-jack gave back my money....which I have heard they didnt have to do since SOMETHING was recovered. The cops busted the theft ring 2 weeks later and found more of my parts along with a LOT of other peoples. I got back useless parts. Chopped up frame, broken plastics etc. A low jack at least gives you a chance if your bike gets stolen by some dumbass intent on keeping it ridable. Otherwise, you are gonna get recovered PARTS. So, with that in mind, my new bike is probly gonna get equipped with that system that sends an alert if it gets moved to far without the key unit within range. I'll just move the sending unit up to a live wire under the fuel tank. If im only gonna get back parts, I would rather it go to send the signal and blow itself, the truck/van and those thieving motherfukkers up in the process. Some of us have little enough to call our own or enjoy and some dickwit decides to come along and just take it. Sorry, after a while it seems Im still pissed about the whole thing.


Fox

[TeaMoney]

Originally Posted by Scrotious

I had a bike stolen and recovered NINE hours later! The FRAME was recovered along with the lo-jack and some of the broken plastics from where they tossed it into a van AT THE MALL!!!! It was I guess stripped within a couple of hours. Amazing how fast they can come apart when you dont give a shit about messing things up to where you may not be able to put them back together....... Anyhow.........Lo-jack gave back my money....which I have heard they didnt have to do since SOMETHING was recovered. The cops busted the theft ring 2 weeks later and found more of my parts along with a LOT of other peoples. I got back useless parts. Chopped up frame, broken plastics etc. A low jack at least gives you a chance if your bike gets stolen by some dumbass intent on keeping it ridable. Otherwise, you are gonna get recovered PARTS. So, with that in mind, my new bike is probly gonna get equipped with that system that sends an alert if it gets moved to far without the key unit within range. I'll just move the sending unit up to a live wire under the fuel tank. If im only gonna get back parts, I would rather it go to send the signal and blow itself, the truck/van and those thieving motherfukkers up in the process. Some of us have little enough to call our own or enjoy and some dickwit decides to come along and just take it. Sorry, after a while it seems Im still pissed about the whole thing.


Fox

Haha thanks for the insight, that's a quick strip right there. I think I'm just gonna plant a nice chunk of c4 on my bike and warn everyone with a bumper sticker lmao. "If you take my bike imma blow you the fuck up!" Think that'll work? Who wants to be the test dummy?

[Scrotious]

Thats what Im sayin! If my bikes gonna be PARTS so are they! LMAO

Fox

[TeaMoney]

haha that'll strike the fear of god in anyone that even thinks of stealing my bike. actually i probably wouldn't ride my bike much either lmao, i'd be a damn fireworks display on wheels! but it sure as hell would work plus you would definatley know who stole your bike!

[SuicideMyk]

just hook the brake wire to the inside of your gas tank when you leave your bike unattended so if they steal it and try to take off the sec they hit the brake AAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOM !!!


or you can look up some GPS tracking sites

http://unitracking.com/

[TeaMoney]

Originally Posted by SuicideMyk

just hook the brake wire to the inside of your gas tank when you leave your bike unattended so if they steal it and try to take off the sec they hit the brake AAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOM !!!


or you can look up some GPS tracking sites

http://unitracking.com/

Lol we were just foolin around.... that's something some kid might actually try and blow himself up you sick fucker ! Not like any one of us has access to military grade c4 or anything.... or on the other hand if you do my number is 555-9580 lmao

[SON DOOBY]

Originally Posted by KTFO

just to prove my point about lojack
http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232370

and another one from my home town
http://www.brevardbikes.net/forum2/showthread.php?t=957

there was another one but its too old

you got 2 stories where it worked... i have 3 friends that can tell you it doesnt. and thats just me alone

[stick1300]

A buddy of mine had an alarm with a pager put on his bike the day after he got it and it paid off. We were sitting in our Comp. Politics class when it went off, we sprint out the door and across campus and see his bike in the back of a truck. We called in their plates and they got stopped within a few miles. The real bitch was the fact that three girls had stood there and watched them load it up, they just told them it was one of theirs and the battery was dead!

[SON DOOBY]

Originally Posted by stick1300

A buddy of mine had an alarm with a pager put on his bike the day after he got it and it paid off. We were sitting in our Comp. Politics class when it went off, we sprint out the door and across campus and see his bike in the back of a truck. We called in their plates and they got stopped within a few miles. The real bitch was the fact that three girls had stood there and watched them load it up, they just told them it was one of theirs and the battery was dead!

the blazing alarm sirens didnt give it away... must have been 3 blondes sitting there

[stick1300]

I know! Why the fuck would you believe the battery was dead with the bike screaming like that? What did they tell them, "Uhh, the alarm has it's own battery...."