Keep your stuff in sight, there are assholes all around us

[Sidewinder]

Im sure your drug dealer wouldnt like being called that

id never call you bad names

[Robert Taylor]

yea man i had some oakley shades and also an olins watch nicked from my pit garage on friday the watch is easy to spot as i think robert taylor has the only other one

After your second excursion they were probably the only things worth pinching out of your pit Craig! ( Sorry that was a bit wicked )
I of course have an Ohlins watch but its safely domiciled at home, Pussy has one and also a vintage MX customer. The watch itself is big diameter and the face bright yellow and highly visible. Quite distinctive if everyone can keep an eye out for the offending lowlife.

[Billy]

After your second excursion they were probably the only things worth pinching out of your pit Craig! ( Sorry that was a bit wicked )
I of course have an Ohlins watch but its safely domiciled at home, Pussy has one and also a vintage MX customer. The watch itself is big diameter and the face bright yellow and highly visible. Quite distinctive if everyone can keep an eye out for the offending lowlife.

Big diameter,Bright yellow face and highly visible???Yeah I heard the Feilding mafia were trying to flog off a Mickey mouse watch at the Denbeigh on sat nite!!!

Thats probably what Shirriffs thought hed been wearing.

[Duke girl]

Apparently Manfield has alot of trouble with the local kids walking around the pits waiting for garages to be empty so they can grab what they like while there's no-one around.
Pretty sad state of affairs that you cant enjoy your days racing without having something of value taken away from you.
In future you need to put everything under lock, that way you are sure to still have it once you come back in from the track.
I had my bike key stolen from the Scrutineering shed at round 6.
Piss me off Big Time and ended my day on a sour note.

[MaxCannon]

It's not just Manfield.

Last time I was at a Hampton Downs ride day a group of people that clearly didn't belong turned up while the riders briefing was taking place and poked their noses around the pits.
The briefing is on pitlane while all the cars / vans / bikes are parked down on the skidpan.
As soon as people started heading back this group got in their car and left.

Don't know if anything got taken but it's a good reminder - Always lock your stuff away.

[hayd3n]

wouldent it would be worth getting security at the gates it might cost a extra $5 each but worth it in the long run

[davebullet]

This really pisses me off. I quite like how officials and riders let us into the pits for a close up look and to ask some dumb questions. It's shit like that, that will eventually force security or barring public access to the pits completely.

[yungatart]

wouldent it would be worth getting security at the gates it might cost a extra $5 each but worth it in the long run

It wouldn't make any difference...the stuff is being stolen from unattended pit sheds, for the most part. Security at the gate isn't going to stop that

[scracha]

It wouldn't make any difference...the stuff is being stolen from unattended pit sheds, for the most part. Security at the gate isn't going to stop that

This shit's getting out of hand. We need to do a sting. We need to beat the living crap out of them and send out a message to other toerags tempted to take our $hit.

[Morcs]

It's not just Manfield.

Last time I was at a Hampton Downs ride day a group of people that clearly didn't belong turned up while the riders briefing was taking place and poked their noses around the pits.
The briefing is on pitlane while all the cars / vans / bikes are parked down on the skidpan.
As soon as people started heading back this group got in their car and left.

Don't know if anything got taken but it's a good reminder - Always lock your stuff away.

yeah me and chris approached them. they had brought the kids to teach them how to steal shit - but they told us they had brought the kids down to see whats happening at the track. yeah right.

[Duke girl]

Thats the problem with sharing a pit garage with other riders to whom you compete against, you are all out of the garage at the same time because you are on the track Racing so would it help in future to share a garage with someone who Races in a different class so that you can look after each others gear while out enjoying what it is your there for.
Im not sure whether this is a solution to the problem but hopefully it may help to keep what is yours from taking a walk to be never seen again.

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Thats the problem with sharing a pit garage with other riders to whom you compete against, you are all out of the garage at the same time because you are on the track Racing so would it help in future to share a garage with someone who Races in a different class so that you can look after each others gear while out enjoying what it is your there for.
Im not sure whether this is a solution to the problem but hopefully it may help to keep what is yours from taking a walk to be never seen again.

Yep, that's what I do, its not often the pit is left totally unattended, not had anything taken yet.

It's a real worry still though you can have 10's of thousands of $ worth of gear left out for some scum bag to help themselves to.

Best approach is if you see someone you don't recognise getting to involved in someone's pit ask them what there up to. If there genuine they wont mind the check, if there up to no good they will be aware they have been spotted.

Theft is one of those crimes that really pisses me off, fukin low life shit stains too full of shit for brains to be any use to anyone. Catch um and cut their fukin hands off.

[ynot slow]

Happens at speedway as well,just small stuff at times,well when I crewed,the odd screwdriver,maybe crescent,etc.We never caught them but the lowlife scum used a crescent with said owners name on it(his workshop tools from his own business)to do a burglary,cops found the tool at scene,and followed up,luckilly we were able to say we were at Stratford the night concerned racing.

[RDjase]

Happens at speedway as well,just small stuff at times,well when I crewed,the odd screwdriver,maybe crescent,etc.We never caught them but the lowlife scum used a crescent with said owners name on it(his workshop tools from his own business)to do a burglary,cops found the tool at scene,and followed up,luckilly we were able to say we were at Stratford the night concerned racing.

Did the cops get the crescent theif/burglar?

Might be time to set up a Honey trap in the pits and catch the fuckers

[Deano]

Thats the problem with sharing a pit garage with other riders to whom you compete against, you are all out of the garage at the same time because you are on the track Racing so would it help in future to share a garage with someone who Races in a different class so that you can look after each others gear while out enjoying what it is your there for.
Im not sure whether this is a solution to the problem but hopefully it may help to keep what is yours from taking a walk to be never seen again.

Its difficult though cause we like to see each other's races as well when we're able.