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General => General => Topic started by: melons on 07 August 2016, 05:43:59 pm

Title: Does Yamaha Y.I.S.S make a bike unrideable without the right key?
Post by: melons on 07 August 2016, 05:43:59 pm

Just wondering if it's a flawed security measure, with an easy work around that scrotes & spotty youth  know about but most bike owners don't.


The Daily Mail article below made me wonder


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727746/Shocking-moment-brave-motorcyclist-acid-thrown-face-gang-tries-stop-stealing-high-powered-bike.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727746/Shocking-moment-brave-motorcyclist-acid-thrown-face-gang-tries-stop-stealing-high-powered-bike.html)

Title: Re: Does Yamaha Y.I.S.S make a bike unrideable without the right key?
Post by: pilninggas on 08 August 2016, 04:28:21 pm

Quote from: melons on 07 August 2016, 05:43:59 pm

Just wondering if it's a flawed security measure, with an easy work around that scrotes & spotty youth  know about but most bike owners don't.


The Daily Mail article below made me wonder


[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727746/Shocking-moment-brave-motorcyclist-acid-thrown-face-gang-tries-stop-stealing-high-powered-bike.html[/url] ([url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727746/Shocking-moment-brave-motorcyclist-acid-thrown-face-gang-tries-stop-stealing-high-powered-bike.html[/url])

Sadly the immobiliser is quite easy to bypass and the information is widely available. It's almost certainly how they got this R1 started (unless they pickpocketed the owner)