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Offroad Datatag Electronic Sercurity Kit

Theft is a huge problem for the motorcycle sport sector, especially with off-road machinery. Currently there is no registration system and once a machine has been stolen, it is virtually impossible to discover its fate. More than likely it will be sold on - complete or in component form - to an unsuspecting buyer.

The theft of motorcycles, including competition bikes, is growing rapidly with over 37,000 machines stolen last year – predominantly due to the ease with which criminals can remove manufacturer's identification numbers.

The expense and difficulty of insuring competition bikes mean that you, the owner, would be unlikely to have cover against theft.

In a major industry/motorcycle sport initiative, Datatag and Racing Organisations, such as the sport's governing body the ACU, have joined forces to combat the growing problem of off-road and competition motorcycle theft and the alarmingly low recovery rates. More importantly the ACU plan to make Datatag compulsory on all competition bikes in the future, in a bid to stamp out theft in the industry.

For the competition bike sector, Datatag has been specially configured to meet the unique requirements of motorcycle sport. The Datatag system uses a number of the latest identification technologies including state-of-the-art electronic transponders programmed with a unique code for each machine.

And here's the good bit - working closely with these racing organizations, race clubs and practice tracks we are building a national team of vetted Datatag officials who will scan bikes at events looking for stolen bikes or parts. These officials have been equipped with special scanners that store stolen property information and will make the job of identifying stolen bikes easier and more importantly, help the Police with their prosecution: it will literally drive theft out of our industry.

The technology developed in the racing system means that existing Datatag systems, such as Superbike or Scooter, will require upgrading in order to benefit from the full protection of this initiative. To overcome this, and as a service to riders, it is planned that a Datatag Racing upgrade kit will be launched to fit to a machine already protected by an existing Datatag system.

KTM UK was the first company to fit Datatag to its entire range of 2005 competition machinery following this revolutionary initiative. And recently at the 2005 Dirt Rider Expo Yamaha Motor UK announced their official range of YZ and WR Competition motorcycles would also come with Datatag as standard.

The adoption of Datatag for probably the most dynamic range of off-road machinery is a major step forward in combating the high incidence of competition and off road bike theft, which has seen few machines being recovered in recent years.

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