UK –This article highlights motorcycle theft outside of London and promotes a Motorcycle Theft Awareness Ride taking place this weekend – Sunday 15th April 2018 – in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The ride takes en route some of the major hotspots, of not just theft, but anti-social behaviour in Humberside, in other words outside the sphere of London motorcycle thefts, bike jacking and bike enabled crimes. The Theft Awareness Ride main organisers Karl and Sharon Freebury, have the full support of Humberside Police. Working together, the motorcycle community … [Read more...]
Silver Bullets For Motorcycle Crime
Europe – Recently we ran an article regarding the launch of the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) Europe platform for professionals interested in public policy and road safety for motorcyclists. The platform provides professional bodies a dedicated site for the publication of targeted content: news and analysis of current issues facing the motorcycling world at – www.fim-publicaffairs.com Motorcycle Minds Elaine Hardy has analysed recent motorcycle theft and motorcycle enable crime for FIM Public Affairs, using her background knowledge of vehicle data … [Read more...]
Thieves Run Amok
United Kingdom – A London(ish) Look – Check out the comments below regarding - Emergency Protest – Riding Against Motorcycle & Scooter Crime on the 9th September............... Since we last looked last month - in July - at the long spree of motorcycle enabled crime on mopeds, motorcycles, scooters and moped thefts, which saw in one night, five acid attacks in ninety minutes by two teenagers with victims – delivery riders - having their mopeds stolen and facing life changing injuries. Has anything happened or has anything been done to stop this scourge? One … [Read more...]
Acid Spraying Moped Theft
London – In a long spree of motorcycle enabled crime on mopeds, motorcycle, scooter and moped thefts have come to a head with the latest reported barbaric acid attacks in London – five attacks in ninety minutes in one night by two teenagers - victims having their mopeds stolen – and 24 hours later a further report of a rider being attacked with a “noxious substance” in an attempt to take the rider’s moped. (As acid attacks appear to becoming a weapon of choice, a piece from Biker & Bike - Safety advice on bike jackings with acid) We take a look at social media … [Read more...]
London – Met Police “Be Safe”
London - The Metropolitan Police have just launched its 'Be Safe' campaign around preventing theft of scooters and of course motorcycles! The message of the Met's new short, hard-hitting film and advertising campaign, urging riders of scooters, motorcycles and mopeds to use more security to avoid the theft of their vehicles is, "The more visible the security, the less visible your scooter is to thieves: adding extra security makes it harder for them to steal." Commissioner Cressida Dick launched the campaign this morning, Friday, 23rd June, at a popular parking bay in … [Read more...]
Bike Theft Epidemic – Protest
United Kingdom - Biker & Bike - UK Motorcycle Theft Protest Group - There is a bike theft epidemic happening in the UK’s larger cities that, outside of biking circles, is little known about. That changed, on the 6th November 2016 when a group of 600-700 bikers converged at London’s iconic Ace Cafe, to ride, peacefully to Downing Street to hand in a petition. The petition called for, amongst many other measures, an end to the policy of the police only allowing all but the most highly trained pursuit offers to follow and stop thieves on motorcycles, mainly … [Read more...]
A Question Of Identity
United Kingdom – A furious Welsh motorcycling colleague of mine has just telephoned me to say that thieves had stolen 4 rare motorcycles from his almost unique collection of 12 and carried them away would you believe in his recently restored classic Bedford van. It would appear they had simply lifted them through the roof of his garage using a JCB that had itself been stolen locally a few hours earlier. What he was really upset about was that some of his friends had spotted his bikes in pieces at a classic bike event some one hundred miles away and were according to their … [Read more...]
