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Best investment i ever made. Dont waste your dollars on the genuine ones. The battery in the remote switch is still working after all this time and its a daily rider.

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I'm not here to argue (well maybe I am...) but I have 'genuine' alarms on both mine. OK so when I bought the 03 I wasn't a member on here, but getting the 06... I'm not technical at all. During the rebuild of the 03 I had the help of a very able dad and a Haynes manual... so getting my dealer to fit an alarm was a no brainer. The series 3 Datatool on the 03 is still fine and still beeping - even after a crash. The remote that was used every day till the crash still works on it's original battery (OK the led doesn't but that was annoying anyway). I had a couple of problems with the first alarm - but that's cos the dealer didn't put the Triumph alarm on... Since that's been on there's been no problems. (In fact when I went to start to do some work on the 03 in April took the tank off, and the alarm went off. Not bad for a bike that had been sat and not started for nearly 6 months.)
The series 4 on the 06...completely lost it's memory after 2 weeks, but after the dealers 45 minute phone call to Datatool, again has since caused no problems.

OK so yes they were expensive and as the insurance game over here is different, it's saved me a lot of money (£150 in th first year alone) to have a very good alarm on my bike. I'm not sure that I would get so much money off the insurance if I didn't. The one on the 03 has since been paid for by the money I saved. The one on the 06... will be paid for next year.

For the technically inept a 'genuine' alarm is fine. And easy....