Stolen: Black Royal Enfield Electra X & Red YBR125

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Northampton, NN2 area.

Woken this morning by a neighbour telling me my garage door had been forced open.

2010 Yamaha YBR 125, Red, YF10 YHP
2007 Royal Enfield Bullet Electra X 500, Black, AY57 DSU

Neighbours looking through their CCTV, I'm off to search the fields and woods at the back, as the next estate is a shitehole and it's where my XR2i used to end up.

Nothing else was touched, all my tools and camping gear still there. The fact that both have gone makes me think it was a van job rather than joyriders.

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[stinkwheel]

I was going to say, check the hedges and ditches. They aren't going to run that enfield for long, even if they do manage to get it started.
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[Rogue_Shadow]

Sorry for your loss

[Flatbadger]

I sometimes have dreams where my bike gets nicked, that's upsetting enough. I hope you get some results from the neighbours' cams.
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There are some things you just don't steal. Burn that sink estate to the ground, no judge in the land would convict you.

Best of luck, I'd retain some hope that they've abandoned one or both of them nearby.

Out of interest, how secure was the garage door?
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[Azoth]

Organised job, sorry to say... They knew which garage to hit, and they probably already had a fence lined up to take them off their hands. A damn shame about your Enfield. Though I hope I'm wrong and it's in a field out the back, prepare for the worst. Even though the bikes may have been taken in an organised hit, it doesn't mean it wasn't locals from the nearby sink estate. Someone will know something - no CCTV needed.
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[arry]

Mate

Proper nightmare. So sorry to hear it.

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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I'm having difficulty in putting a positive spin on the situation.

I just hope they die of boredom with the reliability of the YBR, or die of frustration by discovering Enfield oil leaks on a monthly basis....but mainly death.

Move the tools into the house for a while and maybe add a Halogen PIR light in the garage.
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[kawashima]

Sorry to hear this . I hope both of your two bikes come back to you without any damage.
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[Serendipity]

I feel a swell of justified rage on your behalf. Hope this sorry situation somehow works out to your benefit.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

My neighbour was woken by something at 1am, but didn't hear anything else. Another neighbour came home around the same time and had to wait for "four youths in hoodies" to cross his drive so he could pull in, and that's opposite the entrance to my garage block.

I went with my guess that it's the sink estate they were headed to, and found some tyre tracks leading to the woods...

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...where it looks like there's been some fresh trampling...

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...leading out to a cycle path...

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...where I found the remains of a headlamp...

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...and the Bullet's screen.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3526686/IMG_0411.JPG

The cycle track leads to a dirt road on the estate, where it's always having cars recovered from (and fire engines called out to burning wrecks). They were probably loaded into a van at that point.
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Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

That's crap Shag.

I hope you get them bad. Plod being worse than useless?
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[grr666]

Lethal injections too good for scum like that. I'm truly sorry to hear about what these cunts have done.
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[stinkwheel]

Exact MO of the scumbags in Edinburgh. I've tracked more than one bike by the tyre tracks and litter of plastics between where it was parked and the local sink estate.

They will either be being ragged round the place now or have been stashed for later ragging.

They pull the side covers off and scratch up the tanks so they don't resemble the description. If you look further, I can pretty much garauntee you'll find the number plate hoyed in a hedge somewhere (with others and a few empty wallets).

They'll have taken them somewhere to "work on them". Usually not too far because they'll be fed up pushing that Enfield. In Edinburgh they used to take them into a tunnel on a cycle path.

I would surmise the headlamp has been smashed because the casquette has confused them. They usually reach up behind the headlamp and drag the wires down out of the ingition switch then fuck with them until some lights come on. Having the headlamp shell built into the fork uppers, they'll have tried to find another way in to get at the ignition switch wiring. Probably by levering the glass out of the headlamp.

They almost certainly will turn up again. You probably don't want them to.

There is however one chance. Some of the more switched on scumbags have twigged some bikes have trackers fitted and will stash them away somewhere for a couple of days to see if anyone traces their whereabouts. It'll usually be in a wooded area where jakeys and junkies hang out passing tins of paint stripper/ bits of tinfoil round. Often populated by younger kids bunking off school and riding their BMX/Mountain bikes over homemade jumps.

If that rings a bell, get looking. Ask said kids on BMXs if they've seen a big black motorbike, they don't miss much.
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[stinkwheel]

[pepperami]

Sorry to hear this shitty thing.
Not one, but two bikes lost in one night

Let's hope they catch arse cancer
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[Polarbear]

My commiserations.

Worth claiming on the insurance?
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