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We installed the Rlink GPS alarm by Scorpio on our 2007 GSXR 1000 shop bike and had such a good experience with it, we decided to explain in detail some of the features.
We are not going to cover the installation as it's so simple anyone can do it, especially with the plug and play harnesses that we provide free of charge. We chose not to use the plug and play harness on our bike and we just had to put the positive and negative wires on the battery and then there are two other wires one of which goes on the left turn signal and the other on the right rear turn signal. Then you have one other wire which goes to any wire that has power only when the bike key is on. It's that simple. All accessories for the unit are fully plug and play.
Once you purchase the data plan and have it installed you are ready to get a lock via GPS. Be sure to buy the data plan before trying to register the unit as you'll need the activation code you get after you purchase the data plan. After you have a data plan and you have registered your alarm you're ready to put your bike outside under the sky and then you will have a good gps lock on it.
Now you're ready to login and see the features. When you first login this will be the first screen you see (pictured below). You can see in the remote, in the upper left, that the lock is closed meaning our bike is secured and it shows the last location.
After the bike has been secured for an hour it will go into sleep mode where you can't control it via this panel until you use the key fob and deactivate the alarm. This saves battery power, but if anything gets near, touches, or tilts the bike it will wake out of sleep mode and alert you via the methods you pick (email or text message) and then the alarm goes live. Until then or you use the key fob it will be in sleep mode after an hour of being secured.
You can click on all images to expand them and get a better look at them.
Notice also that below the remote is an "activate emergency" button. When you push this the alarm will send location messages very frequently and also create a temporary account that you can give to law enforcement to help retrieve your bike. Do not push this until you have an actual emergency situation such as your bike had been stolen.
Next, we click the "satellite" link in the upper right and the map changes to a more detailed picture. You can see the GPS has many locks on our bike and depending on the positions of the satellites the positions may change a little, but it's nothing to worry about.
Next we click the terrain link in the upper right and you can see the different terrain around your bike.
We then click "map" in the upper menu on the top of the page and the screen still shows you the map, but on the left it tells you the status of the bike "parked" and it gives you and estimated time frame. You can also change the time frame in which you would like to look at and it will show you all the different places the bike has been in that time frame.
In the above image you can see we have one geofence set up (shown on the left side of the picture above). If you click on geofence it will show you where your geofence is set up. If you look at the image below you can see our geofence. It will now send us a text message and email if the bike ever enters or leaves this geofence. You can set up one or many geofences and make it so that it alerts you only when you enter the geofence, leave the geofence, or both. Always remember not to make the geofence too small as the changing of satellites can change the location of the bike slightly at times.
Next, we click the ride link at the top of the page. In the below image you can see that you can set up rides and mark your favorites roads, etc. Great for sharing rides with others and marking rides. We haven't used this feature yet as we just installed the alarm, but we wanted to show this screenshot none the less.
In this next part you can set it up to share your rides on popular media outlets like Facebook or Twitter. Great for showing your friends or family where you went or even tracking where you went for yourself.
In this last part we clicked "account settings" in the upper right and wanted to show a screenshot of this. As you can tell we blocked our phone number and email address for obvious reasons, but this is where you set up if you want email notifications, text message notifications, or both.
We have tested other GPS style alarms in the past and this one by far puts them all to shame. This one is very easy to install, understand, and use the back-end software. Also, you can contact the manufacturer quickly for great support or have them answer any questions should you have any. We talked to the manufacturer last week and they were 2 for 2 in the New York area by having two emergency's and two bikes were recovered and both thieves were caught each time.
The siren and ignition disable are sold separately. We want to mention though, that the siren is only helpful if people are around to hear it and take notice that something is going on with your bike. If nobody is around to check it out then you did nothing but notify the thief that you have an alarm/GPS system on the bike. For this reason there are times when you don't want to use the siren. One option is putting a toggle switch on the siren wire so you can turn it on/off at the flick of a switch. We have one customer who does this because when he's out riding in town he wants the siren on to keep people away from the bike, however, when it's in his parking garage late at night he turns it off as it's useless and will just help the thief in a vacant parking garage. Just things to think about.
To purchase or read more about this unit please click here.
We hope this brief write up and screen shots were helpful,
MotoMummy Staff
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