Hockenheim Silver S1000RR Stolen in the Tampa Bay Area

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Conor345

Discussion Starter · 15 d ago

Hi all, please keep a lookout for a unique hockenheim silver 2022 S1000RR stolen in the Tampa Bay area, although I doubt by now it’s still in one piece. I’ve attached a picture of the van used in the theft and pictures of the bike. Thanks!!

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Giovanni

· #5 · 15 d ago

I've seen that sticker above the van's "grand caravan" emblem before. They have 3 local dealerships in Phoenix called Bill Luke. That body style was discontinued a couple years back and it looks pretty clean by the picture. My guess would be it was either bought by the perp in Phx, bought from a rental car company recently in Florida, or most likely is a rental car out of FL. I doubt that information will do much at this point but just throwing that out there bc you never know.

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Giovanni

· #16 · 14 d ago

Ravenbravo said:
Hate to tell you, but police and insurance companies could care less about getting the bike back. Just wait the 30 days and insurance will cut the check! My friend went through this, he even found out who stole his bikes(2) and gave police and insurance all the information on a silver platter and they did nothing. Cut him the check after 30 days.

Would be nice to get the insurance check and be able to recover the bike later on then buy it back at a discount. Sounds like a perfect track bike

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Giovanni

· #17 · 14 d ago

zx10guy said:
I was talking to the sales guy that sold me my Ducati a while back. Mentioned about getting some sort of alarm system installed in the bike. He said I shouldn't even bother. Said the best security system for a bike is good insurance to help compensate for the loss. He also asked would I really want it back after it's been stolen. Who knows what they did to the bike in terms of running it or hacking it up. All valid points. Finally, depending on what happened to the bike from the theft, the insurance company may flag the title due to the theft which will cause you other issues.

When I lived in Chicago I installed an alarm with a 2 way pager since a public garage was my only choice at the time. You can set it to only send you an alert if your bike is tampered with. Then set your pager next to your favorite rifle.

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Giovanni

· #19 · 14 d ago

zx10guy said:
I know the alarm systems you are talking about. I put in two of them from Airitronix called Scorpio. To me, it only kept the people not up to no good away from the bikes with the perimeter sensor. But in reality if the bike is being stolen, it only will give you a better head start in calling the cops. Because, frankly, what are you going to do if the alarm goes off and you see your bike actually being stolen? Confront them? That's a good recipe to escalating things and possibly getting hurt or worse being dead. You don't know if the thieves are packing. Now if you're packing, that still doesn't give you a legal ability to shoot the thieves depending on the state you live in.

Both of the alarms I installed failed in the same manner. Something burned up in the main module which you can see where it happened on the housing as melted plastic. When both failed, I never bothered replacing the alarms.

Valid points for sure. I guess best case scenario is all tools in these cases are used as deterrents since no material possession is worth getting hurt or in legal trouble with in the end of the day. Karma will most likely catch up to people like this eventually. Hope they don't try to take John Wick's bike in the mean time...LOL

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