Stolen Honda Magna from Mt Eden (Sat 26 March 2011)

[HungusMaximist]

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Mate's bike got taxed - help him find it. REGO 91WLC

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Stolen! Help me find my motorcycle

On the night of 25/26th March some car theives took off with my motorcycle from Poronui Street in Mt Eden. I found the little spark plug on a string which they use to smash car windows so it wasn't an opportunistic drunk person.

I've scoured the neighbourhood so they must have taken it away in a van

Help me find my motorcycle!!!
1994 Honda Magna - Silver. Four holes drilled in each of the baffles make the exhaust sound loud and distinctive. It's done about 29,000km and I want her back!

If I find theses guys!!!......man,,,look out.

[EJK]

Damn that is a nice bike. Hope he gets it back!

[miloking]

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Mate's bike got taxed - help him find it. REGO 91WLC

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That sucks, hope it was insured...

In regards of the "If I find theses guys!!!......"

Not to burst your mates bubble, those thieves are likely hardened criminals... so not sure what is he planning to do if he by any chance finds them

So if he thinks that he can use some secret hipster ninja skills on them ...then tell him, dont!

Last thing you want is to get beaten or killed over a bike....

[alex de freitas]

So just a happy ending to this story. My Honda Magna that was stolen in MARCH......is found!!

The police called me late last night after pulling over some young punks playing around in the backroads of hamilton. All the bikes split but the cops followed my bike back to an address where the guy admitted be purchased it for $200 knowing it was stolen from a guy in Auckland.

Anyways. Ive been in touch with the salvage company. A few hundred dollars of salvage fees later and a new years eve road trip to hamilton....and I get my bike back!

best christmas ever :-)

Alex

[Owl]

Great, glad you're getting your bike back!:msn-wink:

[scumdog]

Good stuff!

Any damage and how many more km on it?

[Edbear]

Shows the Police are interested in this sort of thing and do keep their eyes out. Well done and I do hope it's okay! The Magna's are a great range of bikes! :first:

[paturoa]

So just a happy ending to this story.

Welcome and what condition is it in?

[curly]

Whew lucky. Have you been bikeless all this time?

Welcome to KB

[St_Gabriel]

Anyways. Ive been in touch with the salvage company. A few hundred dollars of salvage fees later and a new years eve road trip to hamilton....and I get my bike back!

best christmas ever :-)

Alex

I hope you get to add the cost of the salvage to any reparations that the courts order and I hope they pay it. Hope it all goes well for you.

[SMOKEU]

Shows the Police are interested in this sort of thing and do keep their eyes out. Well done and I do hope it's okay! The Magna's are a great range of bikes! :first:

It doesn't matter if the cops are interested or not if the courts lack the power to send and keep these people in jail for a long time.

[Edbear]

It doesn't matter if the cops are interested or not if the courts lack the power to send and keep these people in jail for a long time.

Too true. It's high time these low-life's learnt consequences that mean something and the courts stop wasting Police time?

Hey, could the Police charge the court or judge with wasting Police time? Wotcha reckon Scummy?

[Tigadee]

Great news to start off the new year with! :clap:

On that note: I've just bought a Kymco Venox, a Taiwanese copy of this Honda 250 Magna [Kymco built this bike for Honda and then shipped it to Japan for badging]. It will be arriving in a few days... :drool:

[Bikemad]

oh god!!!.............you poor bastard.............ya gonna get ya bike back

[avgas]

The police called me late last night after pulling over some young punks playing around in the backroads of hamilton. All the bikes split but the cops followed my bike back to an address where the guy admitted be purchased it for $200 knowing it was stolen from a guy in Auckland.


Shows the Police are interested in this sort of thing and do keep their eyes out.

So if they weren't doing anything ticketable would the cops have followed the bike home? Sounds like they didn't even run the plate until they had him at home bailed up.

With that thought I wonder if Katman stole his bike in the 80's and cops have never cottoned on.

[Edbear]

So if they weren't doing anything ticketable would the cops have followed the bike home? Sounds like they didn't even run the plate until they had him at home bailed up.

With that thought I wonder if Katman stole his bike in the 80's and cops have never cottoned on.

More the question, why did they follow his particular bike?

[scumdog]

So if they weren't doing anything ticketable would the cops have followed the bike home? Sounds like they didn't even run the plate until they had him at home bailed up.
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Bikers don't like cops stopping them for no reason doncha know?? Apparently it's not fair.

But maybe they had to wait until they got a response for their plate check?

Or maybe they didn't get a chance to read the plate until they got to the thievin' gits home?

Does it matter??:rolleyes:

[FJRider]

More the question, why did they follow his particular bike?

He was the only one not wearing bike gear ... ????

[alex de freitas]

Yup, so I've got her back in my garage.
The bike is a lot worse for wear. Asides from the ignition, tank cap and steering lock which are all stripped it's clearly been outside since march and laid down at least once at some point. new tank dents. the brakes are in need of some love and the chain/sprockets definitely need a change. mega tight/loose spots. She's still going though. I rode it back from hamilton to auckland on New Years eve. Rode just like I remembered! Just a bit more clanky...

my bar end mirrors were gone. as were all the panniers and pouches. Probably about 1000-1500km more on the clock. Not sure exactly.

I had to drive to hamilton and pay $200 just to get it out of the towing place. I had to convince the dude to open it on new years eve for me as if i'd left it longer he was going to charge me $70 a day of storage costs until he opened on Wed.

The police have been super helpful. I've spoken to the officer involved a few times. The first time he called me I actually had to pinch myself to see if it was a dream. haha. He called at like 11pm and I was drinking.

Apparently he saw at least three bikes messing around on a back industrial road in hamilton that never usually has traffic. He approached them with sirens off and all three bikes split. He followed my bike (probably the slowest haha) to a residence where the rider was cooperative and admitted to buying my bike for $200 from a 'friend' who rode it down from auckland a month ago. It's been stolen since March!! The details the guy gave the police of who he bought it off were bogus. But he is being charged with posession of stolen vehicle...or something. The police man will keep me posted with how things go.

he called me today to take a kind of statement and ask about how the loss has impacted me etc.

I havent had a bike all this time. I struggled to get wifey to let me have this one....and it wasn't insured!

Seems as though the police might be able to get me some kind of reparation. So I'm keeping track of what I spend to get her roadworthy! Off to CycleTreads tomorrow morning I guess (unless you all have a better suggestion of where to take it?). In addition to the standard servicy things and new mirrors and stuff I'm thinking about ditching those horrible magna pipes once and for all!

Oh, and did I mention that I got pulled over by a highway patrol on the ride home!? haha. He says he pulled me over because the bike sounded loud as I putted past (I was pretty much flooring it the whole way). I was riding without WOF or rego and he explained to me I shouldve had a $1000 fine....but he was sympathetic to my story and let me limp on home with my recovered bike! I think I had him once i told him it had been lost since MARCH...and they were going to charge me almost as much as the bike cost to keep in in the storgae place!

Every cop I 've spoken to in the past few days has been astonished I've got it back after this much time. Apparently that like never happens.

Basically, I'm stoked. I know she's just a little 250. But I live in the city and she's pretty much my dream machine for a big dude around town :-)

Accepting all advice on how to pimp and improve it now i've got it back!

Alex

[scumdog]

The police have been super helpful. I've spoken to the officer involved a few times. The first time he called me I actually had to pinch myself to see if it was a dream. haha. He called at like 11pm and I was drinking.

Alex

Good shit - but don't tell SMOKEU, he'll never believe you!