Motorcycle Adventures

It was a few weeks ago when I had been looking on the new for things I could add to my bike, when I came accross the some posts where people referred to a local company called Talon for alarms.  (talonalarms.com)

I emailed them with a few questions, and got a reply back the next day, from a guy named Brent, asking me to call him the next day.

I sent back a rather stiff reply asking him why he couldn’t just answer my question.  Why did I have to call him!  I was quite annoyed as I thought this was some marketing tactic, and I was so sick of being pushed around by sales people.

The response came within a couple of hours, and mentioned that he was looking to do an installation of my type of bike, and that he may be willing to do a free install, in exchange for being able to do the installation and take photographs.

I felt a little bad about having given him a bad time – but I couldn’t have known!   We arranged to meet and install the alarm… He was a super-friendly guy, and clearly very knowledgeable.  As it turns out, he owns the  company, and is also the sole employee.  He’s designed this system from the ground up, and had it manufactured to his specifications, and I must say, it’s the nicest alarm system I’ve ever seen.

We spent a couple of hours installing it on my bike.  It works great!  It has a tilt sensor, an immobilizer, vibration sensor, and a perimeter sensor that can tell if you are hanging around the bike (even without touching it) for too long.  It has the most wonderful and cute little remote, with blue back lighting.  It’s very configurable with many settings and options for it’s operation and for the sensitivity of the various sensors.  It will even let you arm only certain sensors for when you are in areas where they might more easily give false alarms.