Absoloutley gutted, Woke in the early hours of the morning to find everything I had worked so hard for gone, most likely the bike will be parted out so if anyone is to ever here or see and smr 449 specific parts up for sale please let me know, plenty of personalised parts that set the bike apart like an aftermarket rocket exhaust and easton bars and clamps. let this be a reminder to you all, please keep your bikes safe and locked away, possibly even grab something similar to theese I know I will be for my next bike http://www.wired.com/2013/08/tile-a...our-lost-keys-and-maybe-your-stolen-bike-too/
Spewing mate, hope they catch the bastards. As the owner of a stolen and recovered SMR511 that I found through the auctions in Melbourne I hope that the plucks don't profit off your loss. Hope you had insurance mate. Will keep an eye out for you through eBay, gumtree and various forums.
Seems I've made two threads by accident whoops I can't even imagine the satisfaction of recovering a stolen bike glad that everynow and then someone gets lucky, What was the procces you went through to find your bike ? I will try and notify these bike auctions and give them some details vin numbers ect.
Wasn't my bike mate. I can only assume the following - bike gets stolen - owner reports stolen and lodges insurance claim - after pre determined time, insurance co pays out on stolen claim - some time later, cops get away from their speed cameras long enough to do some real police work and locate stolen bike - insurance company notified, places bike in auction house to recover costs - lucky me finds said bike on auction site listed as repairable write off (re reg a little harder and expensive) - bike inspection, totally fine and road worthy with about 4kgs of finger print dust on her - bid at auction and for the sum of $5200 I have a 2011 SMR 511 with 3800km and axle armour, JD tuner, zip ty oil recirc kit, hand guards and arrow pipe Then just a simple case of adding peg and bar sliders, full set of TC plastics, stickier hoops, new sticker kit, new battery and fresh fuel and voila! Instant track bike! Obviously notify cops as frame/engine number will then be loaded on the stolen database
Shit I misunderstood. I am amazed that in this case the police found the bike in the first place let's hope that they are competent enough to locate mine at some point in time as I wasn't insured 18 years old and insurance is ridiculously high.
Sympathise with your cause mate. Let the other forums know and spread the word ie supermotoaus and thumper talk
Thanks dude, unfortunately so many other people across the country are also feeling my pain Wish there where say a company out there that manufactured a gps tags to fix to a motercycle and then a service to track the tag in the event of said motercycle being stolen, imo much better then the security and peace of mind that insurance provides
Words cannot explain how I am feeling, Its as if its almost worth while to have your bike stolen just for the hapines it brings once you get that call, detective called at around 11 this morning and had uncovered my bike actaully in my nieghbourhood in a completly unrelated raid on the perps property ! Seems the only damadge done is to the wirring loom under the ignition and a missing numberplate too easy ! Best possible outcome really, awesome to see the long hard d*ck of justice doing its job, Many thanks to all the people tha helped me in my time of need !
Moving house soon I hear. Jokes aside, absolute best possible outcome. I can see your smile from here.
I feel like moving to another country now that I have her back, to be honest I think its the last I will ever see of that dude, when I arrived there he was being carted of in the back of an unmarked car by special detective something something and his partner.
Talking about the perp, got the slightly unsetling chance to see him in person as he was escorted to the car
You had never seen him before around your place? Not sure where your bike was at but someone has the case the place before the theft .. -- And there are small GPS devices you can stick onto bikes or cars or anything... Can't remember now what they are called or who sells them...
Im sure he would have been casing my house out often, had never seen him before though. Actaully just ordered a gps tracker although the trackers that are on the market now work alright they are more or less a workaround as they only work using a cell network and are not a true gps device still accurate to around 10m and that's not to bad.
