What happens to all the stolen bikes.

[bigbadcredit]

I was reading about how in one year there were something like 15k+ bikes and scooters stolen in London alone.

Where do these bikes end up. If say 50% are recovered that still leaves 7000+ bikes unaccounted for.

I guess if a scooter or a little 125 is stolen it's probably just used to rob a few purses. But what about the BMW's and Triumph's that are knicked.

Are they brought out of the country and sold in africa? Are they stripped for parts?

[grr666]

In bits on ebay sold as spares. Burnt out after use in other crime or just knobbing about on them and the rest go to Eastern Eurape.

The occasional one is recovered if the owner goes hunting for it themself.
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[Irn-Bru]

I can only picture lots of little vlad's and dmitry's messing about in the waste lands on brand spanking new Panigales and GS1200's.

It's shocking that no one really quite knows, or how they are able to get them out so easily. I always wonder when I see those Euro courier vans on the motorways, maybe they are full of stolen bikes off to Poland who knows.
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[TaffyTDM]

Albania I guess. Remember the special top gear did out there with all the local wide boys driving around in very decent UK cars. Didn't even bother taking the numberplate off most cases.

[Rogerborg]

Bike-trac make a point that they'll liaise with Euro-Dredd when your PaniGSagale goes over in Vladislav's van.

I imagine police.uk could do a lot more proactive investigating and boot-putting-in of back-yard bike breakers. When I asked ScotPlod if they were equipped to check for the various security markings and how many bikes / parts they'd recovered with each, they responded that they did not hold that information (i.e. had no Teffing idea what I was asking about) and what's more, they don't even record bike thefts separately from other vehicles.
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[Adamantis]

Whichever twat nicked my 1999 RSV, I hope it killed you. It kept trying to kill me :p

Unless it was stolen for parts (haha, good luck!), or track (more likely), any bike that you have to leave running at the volume of a major artillery strike for 4-5 minutes before moving off (or it'll cut out) is a poor choice for sneaky thievery!

W**kers. I bloody loved that bike Even if it did spend more time in pieces than on the road. And cut out for sheer giggles if you left it in gear at the lights...

I really hope it killed you.
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[grr666]

Yes. I used to go to school with this nasty piece of work. He was always going to end up a wrong un
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[stinkwheel]

They are burnt out in Paddys yard. He paid about tree fiddy for them.
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[Ste]

Hungarian police found that BMW.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2627181/Ultimate-cut-shut-Romanian-thieves-apart-range-BMW-pack-van-ship-border.html

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