A sheath for a motorcycle cable is given a chrome-like appearance by braiding the sheath of copper wire smoothly coated with silver or tin and applying over the sheath a clear resin sleeve having an indiscernible blue or black tint. The monitoring device includes a programmable monitoring module for collecting information, a shutdown controlling module for giving shutdown instructions, and a switch controlling module for controlling the switch device. The ring contact is biased to prior to copper plating of the semiconductor wafer to determine a copper seed layer conductivity.