Just had my pride and joy stolen from a solo m/c parking bay in Petyward SW3 just off Sloane Avenue on Wednesday 2nd Sept 2015 at approximately 3.50pm. Regestration is LG64 FKE. It is the usual, but striking tricolore colours with Ducati tail tidy & double bubble clear screen. Other noticeable point was that the front tyre was a Mitchelin Pilot Road 4 with well scrubbed pirelli diablo super corsa on the rear which had two big nicks in the nearside edge. Should any one see please report it to the police I am offering a £2000.00 reward for information leading to the recovering of the bike. Any Information greatly received by telephone number is 07870169244. And yes before you all tell I am idiot for parking it on the street in London, I aint do that again Simon gatehouse of Tring
No tracker, but I had the full Ducati alarm system fitted. Apparently it was ridden away with the alarm sounding, how did they do that? Surely they should not have been able to get pass the imobliser!!
mate, i had r1 nicked in london 6 years ago. they arrested the cunt, he admitted 47 thefts of bikes. got 18 months , out in 9. probably same guy. i got fucked by insurance company for the next 5 years as if it was my fault...
Think we should start a 'Stolen' section. Its ridiculous how many bikes (not just Ducati's) that get stolen. Hope you get it back but to be honest I doubt you will, such a shame.
One of the reasons I'm having a biketrac tracker fitted . Sorry to hear about this simon, sounds as tho whoever took it knew what to do so I doubt you will see it again apart from being broken on evilbay . There's several sellers on there from down south selling items from new bikes that would not be being broken, so one can only imagine where there obtaining these from !
Mine was being sold as bits on eBay. Got the police involved but they fucked it all up (turned up with no warrant, turned up next day with one and everything was miraculously gone). End result was I had to just sit and watch all the ads disappear with my bike.
Yeah I've heard this one before. eBay has to follow a certain protocol before they can release seller information to the police, then the police have to get through the red tape, all takes too long. I'd have bought my bits back and collected in person and payed for them with a baseball bat!unch: :Cigar:
...you do know they (thieves) can track your tracker...so everywhere your bike goes they know exactly where it is!...even when stationary. Or they just buy a jammer for £50 with a couple of metre coverage...totally illegal, but then they are stealing your pride and joy anyway, so doubt they care.
Sorry to hear that Simon. My 1098SF was stolen about ten minutes from that area, nearer Fulham Road. Gutted at the time as you/i hear stories all the time of bikes being stolen but you never ever think it will happen to you, always to some other poor bastard. In the end i looked at it as replaceable and just a piece of metal. Replaced it and soon got over it. My hiked insurance premium stings a bit though. I'm based around there so will keep on the look out but to be honest it's probably well out of the area by now. If you need to park regularly around there on whatever you replace it with let me know.
I was also told a tracker is like throwing money away as the bikes are picked up in refrigerated vans that are lead lined and so the tracker can't transmit, and the cold drains the battery too. How true that is i don't know, but since my bike was stolen with a full Ducati alarm on at the time i have no faith in the things.
The knocked a small wall down and grabbed mine (it was parked behind the wall). They don't fear noise, they don't fear the public eye and they don't fear the police. If they want it, they'll take it.
police don't give a toss. my company (one i work for, not mine) got robbed twice last year. £1.2m first time and £800k second time. second time they were dressed in police uniform. anyone been caught? don't think so. we had a sting op in our company 2 years ago by flying squad when same people approached us whom defrauded company down the road. all 4 got arrested. released on bail next day. cops never seen them again. in my industry due to the high value small form factor items this is always happen. AND POLICE DONT CARE. why would they care about your bike!!!!
the best form of justice would be some sort of merge of russian police work (where i am from) and british police (my wife's country) tactic . bit of justice + some brutal teeth knocking out force. this will work out well.
Insurance company have already written it off and offered me £16,000. What a joke! I mentioned insurance ombudsman and immediately they offered me £18,500. Still not taking the money, the Met Police are involving the serious MV squad due to the relative high value of my bike. Let's see what happens.
