Security

After doing a little research on the web, I decided it was time to invest in some additional protection for my bike.  Over the past couple of years, more expensive items have started to stockpile on it and it's just too easy to pick parts off of motorcycles.  Those hand levers alone were almost 200 bone$ and would take less than five minutes to get both of them off with only two common tools.

I first started looking at Gorilla, then moved to Chatterbox and finally ended up checking out Scorpio alarms.  I've been intrigued by Scorpio alarms before, mainly because of their RF key fob.  I did a little investigating between the SR-i500, SR-i600 and SR-i900, the latter two being quite similar, with the automatic activation function being the defining feature on the SR-i900.  Although the 900 is the newer model and has the new function, as well as a built-in backup battery, the 600 model seemed to be more expensive, when shopping around for bargains.  I was concerned that the automatic arming feature would always dictate the mode of the alarm and that I wouldn't be able to manually disarm it, if I wanted to.  (Sometimes I park in crowded places, like when on massive group rides, where people are constantly passing near the bike or stopping to check it out.)  I emailed on of the Ebay sellers with this question, so he called Scorpio to find out the answer.  Apparently, there the user is able to do a manual disarming, if desired.  Okay, I was sold on the newer, cheaper model!