Get that stolen bike back with SkyLink

Motorcycles, like most powersports equipment, are easy to steal. Lock the bike?s steering and the wheels all you want; the bad guys can lift the whole deal into a van and take off into the night. Or, chain it to the fence and see how easy a modern bolt-cutter takes care of that little problem.

With this in mind, Inilex has adapted its expertise in GPS automotive locator/trackers to produce a device called SkyLink Powersport for motorcycles and other powersports equipment. Using GPS and wireless technology teamed with a tracking website, the company allows an owner to see exactly where the machine is at all times, hugely increasing the likelihood of recovery after a theft.

The SkyLink tracker is compact and easy to conceal.

Furthermore, the system automatically sets a Quick Fence early theft-detection perimeter around vehicles when the ignition is shut off, notifying the owner by text or email message if the machine is moved.

A dashboard page on the website allows owners to monitor a bike?s movements, speed and battery condition remotely. One can even set geographic boundaries and speeds when lending the machine to someone else, and then be informed if these are flouted.

We had a unit installed in a Kawasaki ZZR600, and it was fascinating to be able to see its exact location on the website, along with the track it had taken to get there. The device itself is so compact that it can be hidden from view easily, and our installer even disguised the wiring adroitly.

Because the device goes to sleep when the bike is stationary, returning to life only when the machine is started or moved, it consumes very little energy. The only downside of that, we were forced to remove the tracking device in order to ship the bike on a long journey, where the constant motion would have kept the SkyLink active, thus draining the battery.

Thanks to a feature called Tamper Alert, an owner would be warned if a thief did something similar. Our only real concern with the Skylink Powersport tracker is that the initial price runs fairly high at somewhere between $699 and $999 (depending on dealer), even if the subscription service thereafter is a reasonable $119 a year.

But for the owner of a fully accessorized BMW, it may well be worth it.

www.inilex.com.

Source: http://www.smartcycleshopper.com/motorcycle-news/get-that-stolen-bike-back-with-skylink/

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