Just finished installing my Gorilla Cycle alarm, I went up to Cycle Gear and bought it this afternoon. It was super-easy, didn't take long at all.

I took some pics, but my camera sucks and doesn't have flash. I didn't realise how bad they would come out inside the garage (It's dark now )  and it was overcast outside. I had to trash a lot of them, but here's some workable ones.


It plugs directly into the battery, just loosen the screws, slide the U thingies underneath, and retighten.


I put the tilt sensor on the front side of where the seat locks to the bike on top of the fender (it installs with velcro). I put the alarm unit/shock sensor in the back where the red circle is, right above the tail light. I wanted to place it somewhere it couldn't be tampered with just by reaching under the fairing. I had to remove some styrofoam block that was coming out anyway from there to make it fit. I don't know what it was for.

I installed the LED flashie light where the green circle is, on the left side of my fairing. It says in big, bold letter to use an 8mm drill bit. You should. Naturally, I didn't have an 8mm drill bit, so I used some not-metric drill bit that was like 8.5mm. It dropped in decently enough, but wasn't tight, so I put it in and wrapped electrical tape around the bottom to make it stay.


I fastened the alarm unit in place with velcro. In the box it supplies a metal mounting bracket, plastic tie wraps, and velcro. Use what works.

I ran the wire for the LED under the tank. I ended up taking the tank off twice to do this, because the first time I put it up there before I drilled the hole, but then I had to take it off again so I could put the wire and the LED through the hole, then restring-retie it.

I cleaned up all the loose wires by wrap tying them to the frame. I bought a big bag of them a while back. Useful things.

It's pretty loud, it was almost painful to my ears while standing right next to it.

While I'm at it, here's a couple pics of the tail light I got from Clear Alternatives. If anyone is interested, the LEDs are brighter than the stock tail light and they look better, too IMO. I haven't worked on a way to light the license plate though.

Bike running, no brakes on.


Brakes on, bike on. Picture doesn't do it justice, it really schorches your retinas from that distance. It was pretty dim outside, check out how it lights up my face even though I'm not in front of it.


The tail light was a direct fit. Unscrew the old lens, pull the bulbs out, put the new LED buls in, screw the new lens on. It appeared to be a slightly modified CBRX1100 (or something like that.. box is gone now) lens.

Anyway, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

You should also post pictures of the alarm unit or remote    that be cool to see. What is the range on it you think, and what about the sensitivity, did you try siting on it while it was armed?

The remote and alarm look like this.

And here's the remote on my keyring. Once again... no flash, so I used a flashlight . Mine doesn't have the chain, it just had a small black keyring. Works better anyway.


The remote is the size of a regular car remote, it fits comfortably in my pocket (although my pocket is getting crowded with a remote for my car AND my bike, plus keys for all my locks).

The alarm unit fits in the palm of my hand. It was small enough to put in my jeans pocket without ripping anything or trying too hard. It fits nicely in the space where I put it, although getting it in was a bit of a squeeze. Taking the grab bar off helps a lot.

It comes with a wire harness. Everything is connected with plus, so there's no need to splice or cut anything.

The range is listed as 100 ft.  It was easy to program, it has a five-sound alarm by default, but you can program it to be any one of those sounds by itself.

Sensitivity:
You can program one of seven sensitivity levels, I have it on like level 3. On level 1 the sound of the chirp was enough to set the alarm off. I bet you could blow on the handlebars and set it off.

Alarm:
It has a warn away chirp and then the alarm. If you just bump it, it goes *BLOOP BLEEP* or something. If you keep messing with it, or hit it harder, the alarm goes off. You can disable the shock sensor easily with the remote, in case you need to park it someplace loud, next to construction work... whatever. Then the tilt sensor and current sensor stay active.

Tilt Sensor:
It goes off when it tilts. Basically when your bike is on the side stand, you mount it paralell to the ground, if someone moves the bike vertical, like by sitting on it, the alarm goes off.(it's 30* to trip the sensor, you just unvelcro it and move it to adjust).

Current Sensor:
The current sensor makes the alarm go off if someone messes with your electrical system, hotwiring for instance. I tested it by arming the alarm, then turning my key on. It went off.

Did I leave anything out?

dang those tail lights look bright. where's you get those bulbs?

instead of tape you can use a dab of RTV silicon, or weather caulking. both cure to a rubbery compound and can be removed easyly enough.