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It's not.. what are you wearing, is it? I'm gonna go with.. why didn't you buy the latest XR1 model? Cos I'd already ordered the XZZ6 and presumed it was up to the job.
Either way, I'm happy with it. Was that the question..? If it was the former, I'm wearing shorts, t-shirt, hoody, and slightly concerned look on my face...
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um... no, it's just that I posted yesterday wanting to try one out on my bike. see if I can find a spot by the track ends where it will fit. I've got a Sugino chainring so I won't be able to fit it there.
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Ahaaa.. we are now well and truly singing from the same hymn sheet! Yep, I'm based in Rivington Place, just round the corner from Cargo in Rivington Street, off Shoreditch High Street. I'm happy to meet anywhere round there, say outside Cargo around 2pm tomorrow?
The more the merrier too.. if anyone else wants to check it out feel free to head on down. PM me so I know who's around and we don't miss anyone.
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Oh yeah.. if anyone's interested I got mine on the bay for £22.99 -
Pretty swift service too, came next day!
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I've got the impression this is NOT a problem with the current XR1 model?
Actually, the beeping pattern on xr1 and xzz6 are exactly the same. Signal volume is only difference.
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Oh yeah.. if anyone's interested I got mine on the bay for £22.99 -
Pretty swift service too, came next day!
I got mine from here with similarly quick delivery.
The alarm/lock itself is absolutely brilliant! Thoroughly recommended.
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Give a warning, "then re-arm instead of going off"???
Even if your bike is being stolen???
no sorry, bad typing whilst doing something else.
Huckster said:
"Have to say, I'm very impressed so far, but I've found exactly the same issue as Bigfoot.. when it's triggered by movement (and not much movement at that) it gives a couple of warning beeps then sounds the alarm for 15 seconds. I thought the idea was that it would give out a few warning beeps first, and if movement stops, the alarm wouldn't sound.'
this.
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It could be inferred but either way, I agree with Huckster and Alien.
I don't use my alarm any more because I can't stand the idea of being that prick whose alarm goes off all night. I think I'd rather my bike got nicked than impose horrific noise on poor people in nearby pubs and flats. -
It could be inferred but either way, I agree with Huckster and Alien.
I don't use my alarm any more because I can't stand the idea of being that prick whose alarm goes off all night. I think I'd rather my bike got nicked than impose horrific noise on poor people in nearby pubs and flats.Japseye, have you actually had experience of this happening? The alarm is supposed to reset itself precisely to avoid that situation. I'm sure if it went off once, people wouldn't be too annoyed, but agreed, no-one likes the person whose alarm goes all night.
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be the case with the Xena though...
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C:V, post 134 and 137 say different things. The latter was a clarification. I didn't want to guess what someone had meant.....on this occasion.
I'm not unintelligent, and the explanation from alien was very polite. If you wish to stand apart from such behaviour, then that is you.
Did not mean it in a derogative way, more like "was I writing that complicated". I want the lock to warn and if no movement is registered to go back to 'normal' state. If movement continues after 3 warnings, full horn please! Is that how this lock works?
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Well mine went off at half seven in the morning on a campsite on sunday morning at the weekend. I felt a prick... and I felt embarassed about the noise (ba-dum-tish)
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I was down at Tate Modern on Saturday. Anyone who's been there will know how many bikes get locked up on the railings by the Turbine Hall entrance. Two bikes locked there had some sort of alarm lock on and both were screaming. I thought what a bloody stupid place to use them, somewhere there was constant movement - people unlocking other bikes, leaning on the handrail etc.
As you were.
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anyone got the PDf that they could post up here? - I never got to grips with how to make it work.
I'm a proper dunce :-
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... no-one likes the person whose alarm goes all night....
How sensitive does this thing have to be? Mine goes off the moment my key touches it. I have experimented and found it goes off with much lighter touch than, say, the pressure of a pen writing on paper.
That means I treat my neighbours to a minimum of two bleeps every morning. This morning there was some rust on the pin as well so my neighbours had to endure two full cycles of the actual signal going full blast before I had wrestled the thing open.
Oh and the rust came only four days after I bought it, having been inside a shed in a period of relatively sunny weather.
Can it be that I received a dud or do the rest of you have these issues?I.. Tate Modern on Saturday..... Two bikes locked there had some sort of alarm lock on and both were screaming. ...
And I also fear that with alarms like these going off all over London willy nilly, people will stop noticing them. I mean, who even bats an eyelid when they hear a car alarm these days?
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Decent film about car alarms starring Tim Robbins.
As ever, the US trailer gives you the entire plot of the film… but anyway:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdLaWURrCU
I think if these alarms become eponymous, cyclists could end up making themselves even less popular than they already are. After all, they're designed for motorbikes, which are far sturdier and parked in the road rather than on a potentially busy pavement.
I bought one of these fairly early on and have fallen out of love with it because I live in fear of it going off in my ear when I have to take it off.
So after that sterling advertisement, does anyone want mine? Happy to let it go for free, with its little bag and a set of spare batteries.
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I think if these alarms become eponymous, cyclists could end up making themselves even less popular than they already are. After all, they're designed for motorbikes, which are far sturdier and parked in the road rather than on a potentially busy pavement.
I bought one of these fairly early on and have fallen out of love with it because I live in fear of it going off in my ear when I have to take it off.
With cars whose alarm goes off at night, I though the praxis was to leave a friendly notice on the lines 'next time it happens sudden combustion'. Because bikes do not readily accept friendly notices I fear the sudden combustion part might be step one.
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Well mine went off at half seven in the morning on a campsite on sunday morning at the weekend. I felt a prick... and I felt embarassed about the noise (ba-dum-tish)
These alarms are stupid sensitive, all I did was place my wheel on my bike, which was touching SP's and it went mental.
I naturally laughed alot as a tired SP fumbled out of the tent and had to unlock it whilst it was blaring in his face.Sorry SP.
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And I also fear that with alarms like these going off all over London willy nilly, people will stop noticing them. I mean, who even bats an eyelid when they hear a car alarm these days?
Good point, however, it's not so much the sound of the alarm going off as the pain that a bike thief would have do endure while they cut through any lock, which would be right next to the alarm. Also, if the alarm is attached to the chainring, as per the most popular mounting option, it makes it impossible to ride off without cutting the alarm off the chainring first.
So generic noise or not, it's got to be worth it...
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Xena XZZ6 Disc Alarm Lock: A Review
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er... huckster...
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