Ducati stolen

Awaiting damage report from the plod.

Gutted :-(

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SteveH

Bugger.

 

I rent a lockup in a slightly pikey area. However, said lockup had one
of these on it:

http://expertlocks.com/pic_library/prod/160_images_DBImages_400_SeriesMa
trixImage.jpg

and the usual kind of lock you get on roller-shutter doors.

It's located opposite a block of houses.

How someone got in and nicked it without waking up the whole street,
I'll never know.

 

Go round the local shops & ask around. Shopkeepers are superb, or grap a
scrote off the street.

 

bugger

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

Is it insured for theft or TPO?

 

Well, that has to go down as the most effort expended to steal the
lowest value and slowest bike.

Photos of the garage / lockup:

http://www.italiancar.co.uk/shutter/shutter1.jpg

http://www.italiancar.co.uk/shutter/shutter2.jpg

http://www.italiancar.co.uk/shutter/shutter3.jpg

http://www.italiancar.co.uk/shutter/shutter4.jpg

So, they had a go at the lock and failed.

Then they took a cutter to the roller shutter and cut a 'door' out of
it.

Finally, they managed to exert so much force on the bottom of the door
they bent the 'bolt' thing in the ground so it came out of the holder
and managed to open the door.

How much effort for a bike worth £800-ish at trade?

 

Fully comp.

 

Arse.

 

**** me alive!

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

doesn't the insurer mind the bike being stored somewhere other than the
RK's address?

 

No, it was all declared without any issues.

Apparently it's common on 'classic' policies - didn't even hit my
premium, even though, as we have now found, the garage was in a very
pikey area. (Cwmcarn, if you're interested)

 

It'll be a write off.

I'll bet you are, think of the money you'll have to spend on something
decent.

 

Post corrected.

 

Well, I won't find out how much damage until tomorrow.

Cnut.

It's not worth a lot - although I have an agreed value of £1500 on it.

However - depending on damage, I'll probably fix it myself and not
claim, as a claim will bump up my classic car *and* bike policies for a
good few years.

On the other hand, if it's minimal damage and written off - it may well
make sense to buy back the salvage.

 

Pushed it round the corner to a waiting van.

 

Aw bollocks.

Give you a monkey for the carcass ;-)

 

Yes. A lot of second-hand old SS stuff is remarkably cheap on eBay.
Bodywork from any old 600 or 900 is the same, albeit the decals may
differ, and it might need a respray but Beav will take care of that.

Where was it found, then?

 

Jesus. Some local scrote probably told his pikey mates: "There's a nice
Ducati in that lock-up and they assumed it was a 999 or something,
almost anything really, more valuable than an old 750SS.

 

Someone will have said "there's a Ducati in that garage", chav
interprets that as "996".. and the rest is history.