Missing Repsol 05 blade

[timwilky]

Gone in 60 seconds. Mates Factory Repsol, Nicked from Whittle le Woods, Chorley.

Now this is my home turf. I l know the bad boys and asked about last night. Guess is it is non local scroats. Plod seems to think there has been a rash of bike thefts locally

A few are keeping an eye out for me. But me thinks it will either be a track or ebay jobby.

Bad luck....

Lets hope that the scroats come to an unfortunate sticky end...

Do they not rob blades for robberies / hits in your area?
I knew around dublin, they would rob Blades, almost always just Blades, change the oil and plugs on it, do a robbery, and it would end up left somewhere along the quays. A lot of the blades robbed would be retrieved this way (around Dublin anyway). There was even a guy you could go to, and throw a few Euro at, to make sure that your bike arrived there nicely.

A new ignition for it and you were grand usually.

If they did a hit on it, it would normally end up in the canal. But generally it was just robberies.

It might be worth finding out if there is a local bike ditching spot near you...

Bugger, sorry to hear about this.

thieving gits! what goes around comes around they'll get theirs.

Watch out for some juicey parts on an ebay near you very soon. I hate this kinda sh*t.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

thieving gits! what goes around comes around they'll get theirs.

A shame that I feel so pessimistic, but I'm just not sure that they do anymore. We need or for them.

Originally Posted by philipMac

change the oil and plugs on it, do a robbery, and it would end up left somewhere along the quays.

Blimey, they service the bike and then dump it, considerate types you have there

Originally Posted by andy

Blimey, they service the bike and then dump it, considerate types you have there

I suppose when you absolutely, positively have to get the f*ck out of Dodge, very quickly, you take certain precautions.

If they use the bike for a shooting though, it would be dumped into the canal. Not so great.
But, yeah, for years you could go to a specific bar, to the rather cheesyly named Bike King, and he would investigate you getting your blade back.
You would throw him a few quid. And then you would pick it up...

It seemed normal at the time. I suppose looking back at it, it was a bit weird.

If it was something else though, an FZR or whatever, then it wasn't him who robbed it, and there was nothing you could do really. Just blades.

[timwilky]

Although Nick has a crime report number for his claim. Plod, were due to interview him last night. 3 whole days after he reported it nicked. No show.

He is not too disheartened, he had just bought a new blade in Winston colours that was supposed to be kicking out 15bhp on the back wheel more than his 05 Repsol did with a PC/Yoshi/K&N etc.

So he had already removed the carbon wheels to put on the Winston, but with all his trick stuff removed he was thinking it was worth about £6500 and worried that the insurance may only offer about £6,000. and he will loose a fortune on the trick stuff he cannot get his hands on. PC, uprated shock, Yoshimura full system etc.