Ducati Monster Forum

Yesterday, at the end of a group lunchtime ride, after lunch, I started up my ST2 and the van parked next to us gave a little chirp.  It's been a while since somebody's car alarm did that, so I revved the bike a little to see if it would do it again.  It did, so I revved it a whole bunch until the car alarm was going off full blast.  If the owner had been around, I would have given him a rude gesture too.

I don't even have loud pipes, just lightly modified to let the wonderful Ducati sounds out.

When I used to have the 1997 M900 with the Ducati Performance carbon slipons, I would often hear cars beep at me when I passed them, especially in parking garages.  Unless I was in a hurry, I would often go back and rev the bike about ten times to give the alarm a workout.  If anyone ever glared at me, they received the rude gesture as well.  The best effect is achieved by wheelying out of there after making the gesture.

I hate car alarms that are sensitive to sounds like that.  If you do too, help correct the situation by setting them off as often as possible.  :e:v  :e:v  :e:v

Yeah there used to be a Porsche down the street from my house that would blip as I downshifted come to a stop sign, but the owner moved so no chirping alarms for me :D

Happens to me on every ride! No warning chirps here, I send em into full-on panic mode with my "Full" system. I laugh my ass off everytime too.  :e:v There is someting to be said for the "pulse" of the Ducati, cuz my cruiser is a twin with a deep Muzzy 2into1 and it hardly ever sets em off, and it can be loud when on the gas. Too much fun!  ;:|

I get 5-6 alarms every time I ride around SF. The Monster seems to get more of them than the Supersport, but they both make overly-sensitive alarms cry for mercy  mo:t:

For awhile I was thinkin i would do a "tally" on my tank or cowl but after setting off so many I bailed on the idea. I'm already an "ace" in "kills" so the heck with it. No one would "get it" anyway...  ???

I enjoy doing that to the neighbors. There are 3 car alarms that go off every time. I believe they hate me already. Specially at 7am.
But I really can’t do much about it, my bike is just loud..

I hope they understand.   :-\

termignoni is Italian for "alarm sensitivity meter"

I'm with you. I hate sensitive car alarms. I am not sure how that helps me rationalize setting them off all the time, but somehow I do it.
A friend and I went down Montgomery in SF one night and we could hear them going off a couple blocks over. That was fabulous.  ;:|

its especially funny when you sent one off that's on a POS ford escort that looks like its 100 years old. it like 'why the make the beast with two backs do you need alarm'

I figure that if the car alarm goes off enough times either the owner will wise up and change the setting so it doesn't do that anymore, or the battery will go dead and it will stop going off anyway.

I keep the baffles in my current exhausts so I haven't set off any touchy alarms lately. I used to have some old school GP pipes on my EX500 and it would set off anything in a two block radius. Those pipes were crazy fun.

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Kids of your generation...  r:e)

Had a neighbor... I was about 19 the... that had an alarm that was so sensitive, that a strong breeze was enough to ripple the convertable top, and set it off. :bang So, as any self respecting neighbor would do, I got a box of tennis balls, and every time he'd go back inside after checking his beloved car, I'd nail one off the bumper and set it off again. Never gave him more than 10 minutes' rest between strikes. :e:v

After about 2 days of this, he finally got so fed up, he switched it off. Funny thing is, none of the other neighbors ratted me out to him. Guess they figured out what I was up to, and just let it ride. ;:|

brilliant!

My Monster came with insanely loud pipes already on it. I set off alarms all the time, just riding around the city. Funniest part is I don't like loud bikes myself.

Man, it's a good thing we didn't grow up together!! We would have been in juvey togther for eggin each other on to do stuff like this!!   :e:v

Happens all the time...  Makes one wonder if anyone even looks when a car alarm goes off anymore -- is it really an anti-theft device after all?

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Always make me giddy when we're riding 2-up. ;D It's even funnier when DQ does it in parking garages to see how many he can get at once. ;:| Lots of bikes go by my apartment building every day but I can always pick out the Monster/Supersport from a block away.

I do what I can. :e:v [cheeky]

The first time i set off a "chirp" was when i pulled into my girl's apt complex.  The driver of the car had just gotten out a few seconds before i pulled into the spot next to his car and he was walking away about 20 feet ahead.  He swings around and gives me a nasty glare like i just hit his car.  The next morning, it chirped again... his alarm was blaring by the time my bike warmed up and i left, with a big smile.

Yes. I live on the industrial side of Berkeley and my g/f and I woke up one night to an alarm chirp, a few seconds of silence, another chirp, silence, chirp, etc. We went to the window and saw two car thieves trying to get through the window of a car. Eventually the chirping intervals increased with their constant poking and they got spooked and ran.

That particular alarm seemed to be set up just fine!  wt:

I once set off the alarm of my own car when I fired the Monster up in my garage one morning  :-[

Did ya kick yer own ass? :e:v

 :bang

 ;:|

I remember on my old 620 with the dp pipes I'd set off alarms going down the street.  That was fun.

My arrows pregnant dog slap car alarms on the daily.

Never had it happen with the bike for some reason. Mebbe mine's defective  :P

what kind of pipes you runnin'

Stock, udder and all  ;D

Then yep...it's defective  ;D

Neither the Wolf exhaust or the Two Brothers would set off a car alarm but i got/get lots of chirps out of them. In the old days when i used to work at an airbase, the F15's would always set off alarms when the  would take off. They look cool at night you can really see the After burner flames good.

Slightly related:
You know that going straight through an intersection and some ass turns left in front of you as if you're not there thing that happens daily?

That never happened on my monster with Termi's.

It just happened on my 848 with stock pipes. I low sided instead of going through a window.  :'(  [bang] I really hate that.
All hail loud-ass-pipes! Time for Termi!!!!

One day a friend and I were riding home through the the tony Pacific Heights area of San Francisco. We started to turn left, but got held up by an oncoming Mercedes that was full of 4 crusty old ex-debutante holier-than-thou prudes. The two in the back had their window down, and they started scowling at us as they passed through the intersection. I pumped the throttle and sent about 120db of desmodromic love their way, and the old women nearly jumped out of their seat. The look on their faces was priceless...terrified, yet somehow aghast and offended by the very existence of hooligans equipped with loud motorcycles daring to come through their neighborhood. It's times like those that make me want to invest in a high-res helmet cam  [evil]