Bike alarms - thoughts, experiences

[wiggydiggy]

It's bluetooth. So as well as being a really bad idea, it's also not very effective. If you have superglued your Garmin to the handlebars and are just nipping in to a shop for no more than a few seconds, it may be OK.

I'm not really an expert on this because I have never tried it. I just read about it in the instructions and thought "stupid idea".

I entirely agree! That sounds like something a marketing exec would think up to tack on a selling point!

 

[steveindenmark]

I would not invest in an expensive alarm. I would use the money on a decent D lock. I have a door alarm on my allotment shed from Temu. Its cheap, loud and the batteries seem to last forever.

Your average opportunist thief wants as little hassle as possible. If its an average bike and is obviously locked. They will usually pass it by and find one that isn't locked.

Adding an alarm and a tracker will do no harm.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I take the René Magritte approach. I hang a sign on my bike that reads "This is not a bike".

This discourages opportunist thieves who want to steal something that is a bike.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I entirely agree! That sounds like something a marketing exec would think up to tack on a selling point!

You can't blame them for trying. They're thinking: Right we've sold these bits of hardware that have these sensors, this data and this connectivity. What else can we do with them, using just software. Can we dream up a killer app? Sometimes it's actually useful (live track) sometimes it's iffy (incident detection, hazard reporting) and sometimes it's just stupid (bike alarm)