Because anyone can steal the bike if you forget it's in there and walk away?
Odd of someone stealing a JAPANESE bike in Peoria IL? Very low, to say the least.
Odds of me being dumb enough to forget it somewhere or otherwise hose myself? Several orders of magnitude higher.
Most aren't smart enough to figure out the fob thing, or just plain don't care. I have been living under the assumption that the effort saved by not securing things will at some point outweigh the inconvenience of losing said thing. If I go through life like this, at some point, it's a win and every day I don't have to dick with locking something up that most likely won't get stolen, I am ahead of the game and avoid the aggravation. See above, I live in the Peoria IL area, so there are not a ton of thieves relatively speaking and those that steal don't steal Japanese. YMMV. I also figure that most people think motorcyclists are just plain crazy and messing with a motorcyclist's stuff is akin to Russian roulette or the like. Again, just one man's opinion.
See, there IS an advantage to living in Illinois. 54 years and I finally found one!
And yeah, I should have searched.