Vmaxbeast, does your Spyball have the perimeter sensor? I say this because the thing I hate most is when somebody starts touching my bike without my approval or me knowing about it. The alarm sound is pretty intimidating, but that's the least important of the Scorpio features.
If for instance you park the bike somewhere crowded or with kids in the vicinity of the bike, be certain that the kids, once they hear the beeping, they will carry on forever till you switch off the alarm... well in the Scorpio you have the option of SILENT WATCH, so the bike will emit no sound or flash the indicators, but if the intruder insists in being close to your bike (even if he doesn't touch it), your pager will receive the warning and light-up, beep and even vibrate; at the same time you will get info on the screen of what kind of situation triggered the alarm; that way you decide what action to take. Say it's just kids.. well you go and tell them what to do if what they are doing is more than looking.
If it is an adult and he is only looking, well, that's only natural...
If he is sitting on your bike, you come out from the disco, you set the alarm to NORMAL mode and if he tries to sit on it again it won't be so much fun for him (If that hapens, take a few friends with you this time)
I'll end up telling you why I decided to get this kind of alarm.
Several years ago I used to live in a block of apartments, on a third floor and my bike was parked in an underground car park (second floor down). One day I was going to ride the bike when I noticed some MF had scratched on purpose the top filter cover (dummy tank)of my brand new carbon look 2000 V-Max; "WORLD YOU OWE ME MONEY", that's what he wrote with a screwdriver. I had to paint the whole bike in black, since there's not much you can do to repair that kind of paint.
I got my first SCORPIO and always put the pager on my bed table (SILENT MODE) of course since I would't be able to hear it anyway. One night, at 4:30 a.m. I woke up with my pager jumping and beeping off my table... I woke my older son, grabbed a wooden round bar and took the elevator down to the -2 garage level.... When I opened the door, there he was, in total darkness sitting on my bike with his feet on the footrests and all......What to do??
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Actually nothing, since when I turned on the light it was my next door neighbour, a Veterinarian who had had to attend a cow giving birth somewhere in a farm, and he loved so much my V-Max that he couldn't help but to feel it by sitting on it. He apologised time after time and was stunned when I told him about how I new that he was TOO close to my "Darling".
Many other stories have happened, but I find this one the funniest and I thought I'd tell you.
Spanish Flyer
PS. Never got the b@st@rd who did it, but it didn't happen again.
