Steve, that sux!! I hate thieving low-lifes. My son recently moved interstate to find work after becoming qualified as an electrician. He woke one morning soon after, not long after buying all his tools, to find someone had stolen them all.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/26/17 at 00:17:49:



What he said ^^


My boss is a real good guy, and a hard working small business owner. I've seen him not take any wages so he can pay me and the other guy at work. Last Christmas some locals broke into the shop and stole two dirt-bikes to give to their kids!

We eventually got them back. They had spray painted all over them, but never ridden them (The bikes had been sitting in the showroom for a while, and the thieves couldn't figure out how to get them started). They even came into the shop three days later to buy a tyre for the bike they stole!

We turned one of the recovered bikes into a 'project bike'. My job was to clean it up (tearing it down and polishing every bolt to remove the spray paint) then we sprayed the crankcase, made some custom parts, and added a sticker kit ... it came up a treat.

We lost money on the job, but hey, we had fun, and we can sleep at night ... and some kid got a sweet custom pit bike.

Probably somebody else got it for a "Christmas"  present!

I am just a little south of you in Liberty, SC, and when I moved down here, I was shocked to know that titles (or at least MSO's (manufacturers statement of origin)) are not required to use any of these:  trailers, mopeds, sport vehicles like 4-wheelers, etc.  

These sorts of vehicles are easy pickins

Shame on whoever stole it!!

Look me up sometime, maybe we could go for a ride.  I like to take back roads up through western NC to the Parkway and back!

On those types of vehicles it may be worth the effort to wire in a "secret" switch - like a kill switch - that only YOU know about!

Also, on my Trek bikes, I would take off the handlebar grip, and put in a protected paper with my name and address and phone number.  Something that would help PROVE your ownership in the event that the ownership is under contention.

It's a sad commentary on American society.
They steal thousands of dollars worth of stuff to get a few hundred dollars worth of drugs.

I hope it is found.  I do have the VIN and a bill of sale from when I got it. They guy I got it from said he will be happy to come to court and testify he sold it to me if it comes to that. I, sadly, have resigned myself to never seeing it again, though.

The state will start requiring registrations on mopeds in November 2018, mostly due to the run-away moped thefts in the state.

This was targeted.  It was not visible from the road. They knew exactly where it was and got it and nothing else. They didn't bother the vino 10 feet away, the dirt bike 8 feet away, any of my street bikes or my other scooter. They didn't get anything else off the carport. Welders, weedeaters, etc. all still right there.  

They were even quiet enough to not wake the dog. He wakes me every time he starts barking and if somebody was in the yard and he knew it, he would have been having a fit.

Luckily I didn't have a whole lot of money in it. . . Doesn't make me feel any better though.

The cops could care less.  I filed a report. They didn't even come out. Just called me and took the info over the phone. Didn't ask for pictures or identifying markings and was very surprised when I could give him the VIN. You could tell he felt he had much better things to be doing from the way he acted on the phone.

I'm watching CL and several other local area for sale sites. I've got eyes all over town that know my scoot looking out for it. Local repair shops have been notified. I'll be checking the pawn shops every few days for the next couple months. They'll have to get a repalcement ignition switch or hotwire it to get it to run.

When I grew up, I was like Dave. We didn't lock doors, could leave keys in the car. Nobody bothered anything. And that was less than 10 miles from here.

Dave wrote on 12/28/17 at 03:25:23:


I know the area well.  When I was a teen with my Honda, I used to ride that road over towards you (Route 62) on Fridays and Saturday evenings and hit the "restaurant row" there in Alliance.  Do you remember Quaker City Dragway?  I used to go there a lot.  I was also a member of the Western Reserve MC club, and raced a LOT of winter Hare Scrambles there.  I won a lot of them in my class, and that was my favorite place to ride along with the race just south of Canton run by Mathias who owned the BMW dealer in Dover.  Did you ever go over to the Honda dealer in Canton, right there on Route 62 called Park Honda & Marine?  That is where I used to work!