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Edited Date/Time
6/13/2015 7:29pm
From the latest Racerhead: http://racerxonline.com/2015/06/12/racerhead-24
Josh Cartwright: The Atlanta 2 Supercross race was a crazy day for me. In Dallas and Atlanta 1, I made the night shows but came up short for the main events. With two attempts under my belt, I felt confident for Atlanta 2. Saturday morning, when we arrived at the privateer parking lot at the Georgia Dome, I noticed the lock was gone from the side door of my trailer. I looked inside and my practice bike was gone. As we walked around we saw AJ Catanzaro had the same unhappy look on his face. His bike had been stolen as well. We were both stunned and in disbelief, since the parking lot was a secured area provided to us by the event promoter. You had to show race credentials to a security guard to get in the privateer parking lot, so how could this happen? My practice bike was a reasonably new YZ250F. While it was mostly stock, it did have a duplicate of my SX race suspension and I had just put a set of Raptor Titanium footpegs on it. From the perspective of a privateer, losing your practice bike is devastating. Fortunately, FMF had my race bike locked in their truck inside the stadium pits. So things could have been worse.
I ended up having a great night. I got the holeshot in the LCQ and held on for third place to make my first main event. My lifelong goal has been to make a supercross main event while attending college, so this was a huge accomplishment for me and my family. Our pits looked like I'd won a championship, not third in an LCQ.
We heard they found AJ's bike so that was encouraging. Over the next few days we had images of these guys riding stolen bikes on social media. We determined one picture was my bike because of the grips. I use the blue ODI Emig Lock On grips on all of my bikes. They are easy to spot because they have Emig's name in really big white uppercase letters on them. We stayed in touch with the police for the next few weeks, but they eventually stopped calling and we assumed they had given up and I was simply out of a bike.
Then last week Feld Motorsports contacted me with some fantastic news. While the police never found my bike, the folks at Feld felt responsible for it and they were working to get me a replacement. They got me a new bike and shipped it to the dealer of my choice, and I just picked it up. We all know racing fans like to voice their opinions on social media and the internet. The Georgia Dome and Feld took a lot of online heat for the bikes being stolen, but they have taken responsibility and have done the right thing by replacing my bike. Every privateer and racing fan will appreciate that. I'd like to thank Feld's Director of Supercross Dave Prater for all of his efforts on making this happen. "
Josh Cartwright: The Atlanta 2 Supercross race was a crazy day for me. In Dallas and Atlanta 1, I made the night shows but came up short for the main events. With two attempts under my belt, I felt confident for Atlanta 2. Saturday morning, when we arrived at the privateer parking lot at the Georgia Dome, I noticed the lock was gone from the side door of my trailer. I looked inside and my practice bike was gone. As we walked around we saw AJ Catanzaro had the same unhappy look on his face. His bike had been stolen as well. We were both stunned and in disbelief, since the parking lot was a secured area provided to us by the event promoter. You had to show race credentials to a security guard to get in the privateer parking lot, so how could this happen? My practice bike was a reasonably new YZ250F. While it was mostly stock, it did have a duplicate of my SX race suspension and I had just put a set of Raptor Titanium footpegs on it. From the perspective of a privateer, losing your practice bike is devastating. Fortunately, FMF had my race bike locked in their truck inside the stadium pits. So things could have been worse.
I ended up having a great night. I got the holeshot in the LCQ and held on for third place to make my first main event. My lifelong goal has been to make a supercross main event while attending college, so this was a huge accomplishment for me and my family. Our pits looked like I'd won a championship, not third in an LCQ.
We heard they found AJ's bike so that was encouraging. Over the next few days we had images of these guys riding stolen bikes on social media. We determined one picture was my bike because of the grips. I use the blue ODI Emig Lock On grips on all of my bikes. They are easy to spot because they have Emig's name in really big white uppercase letters on them. We stayed in touch with the police for the next few weeks, but they eventually stopped calling and we assumed they had given up and I was simply out of a bike.
Then last week Feld Motorsports contacted me with some fantastic news. While the police never found my bike, the folks at Feld felt responsible for it and they were working to get me a replacement. They got me a new bike and shipped it to the dealer of my choice, and I just picked it up. We all know racing fans like to voice their opinions on social media and the internet. The Georgia Dome and Feld took a lot of online heat for the bikes being stolen, but they have taken responsibility and have done the right thing by replacing my bike. Every privateer and racing fan will appreciate that. I'd like to thank Feld's Director of Supercross Dave Prater for all of his efforts on making this happen. "
These are the worst of the worst thefts because it's all happening by people being paid to prevent those thefts.
Props to Feld for replacing the bike but there is a bigger problem here.
The Shop
+1
Good on Feld for fixing their error and making it right for Cartwright. Now they can work on procedural corrections and you can't ask for much more than that. Good job Feld.
Shane
Pit Row
Props for doing what any good company should have done?
Hey, props to field!
Feld replaced a used practice bike with a new one. Did it take a while? Yup. But it's done. And I'm sure they didn't have policy already in place.
Let's not add in the who's really responsible argument. Is it Feld? Or the security company they hired? It happened under their eye of course. But Feld hired them. It's not all black and white.
Is it so hard to give a little credit while credit is due?
Shane
I think it's great that they did the right thing. I can only imagine that makes a huge difference for him, and I am certain they will make things more secure next year. It's crazy that people could bitch about that but I guess its Vital.
Nobody's bitching, it is very rare that moto promoters take responsibility for their business oversight. "Oh we are sorry a 4 wheeler crossed the track in a race and you hit them........."
So in this case props to them for resolving a business issue within a year!
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