Stolen Joy: Had your ride stolen?

[KewlRR]

It's happened to me more than once -- walking out to hop on your motorcycle and discovering that someone walked off with it. You see the blank spot on the ground...and broken pieces of locks or chain, and you get that sick feeling. Then I get a real vengence feeling that if only I had caught them while driving my truck I could have ..... grrrr. Anyhow, I'm curious just how often this has happened to riders. I've had three motorcycles, one dirtbike, and one personal watercraft stolen since 1990. So, hopefully there's a way to set up the "poll" now and find out what's been the experience of more people.

Vaughn

[CycleCat]

Ducati Elefant. The crackhead got caught 9 months later... after he had pretty much ruined the bike. :argh:

[WoodButcher]

Never had a motorcycle stolen, but have had the tools stolen out of the car. Also had a bicycle stolen (same sick feeling you are talking about). Had a 68 mustang stolen in college and that was funny. Blamed my roommates for a while. They finally convinced me they didn't move it and I called it in. Five years later I got a call from the insurance company (long story) that it had been found. Sold the clear title to the then current owner/posessor and was just happy to know what happened to it.

Wonder if the poll should be "not yet" instead of "never"?

[a5west5]

1989 Yamaha FZR400. Brand spanking new and only had it 2 weeks and it was stolen from my apartment complex. State Farm came through though, had a check within 5 working days. I then went straight to the same dealer and bought another one just like it.
>The police did locate the bike about 2 weeks later, it was busted up and left in a mall parking lot two towns away.

[ddavis]

'95 KLX 650 stolen twice. The second time, it wasn't worth putting back together.

[KewlRR]

My last experience with this was two years ago, ten days after moving to Houston. I moved into the Lofts at the Ballpark and thought their parking garage was secure..hahaha. One night, despicable person(s) entered the parking garage and removed an '03 CBR600RR and a XR80. And two other motorcycles from two other people in the garage.

Interesting, though, that for the specific weekend the security company did not have functioning video cameras of the entrances. Just for that weekend. What a coincidence....

Anyone try the LoJack for motorcycles yet?

[Squidward]

2002 GSXR 1000 stolen from me a few years ago. Funny thing is the thief was killed on it running from the cops several weeks later.

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[Desmo]

I had two bikes stolen at the same time. Does this count as one or two?

I had a Kawasaki KX250 for sale in the paper. Two teenage boys came and looked at it. The said they would come back with money. Well, I think they came back. But with bolt cutters, not money. They stole it and my son's Honda XR80.

[mhutch]

Had my college EX500 stolen from out in front of the house. I suppose that it didnt help that I had lost the keys and you only needed to flip a switch to turn it on :-). They found it a couple of weeks later in a parking lot with no gas.

[KewlRR]

I had two bikes stolen at the same time. Does this count as one or two?

I had a Kawasaki KX250 for sale in the paper. Two teenage boys came and looked at it. The said they would come back with money. Well, I think they came back. But with bolt cutters, not money. They stole it and my son's Honda XR80.

Ack!

That counts as "two."

Yeah, we had our XR80 stolen. Seems like dirtbikes are good theft targets because they don't require registration/license plates and have a next-to-zero chance of being detected and thus recovered. And considering those little dirtbikes are so expensive, it really hurts... like me, you probably did not have insurance on that $3k investment, either. Grrrrrr.