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4/26/2016 7:04pm
Team BTO Sports - KTM Team Transporter Burglarized
Unfortunately last night the BTO Sports - KTM team transporter was broken into and over half of the team's inventory was stolen. The burglary took place in the Murrieta, CA area, and the team is asking for the entire industry to come together via the Internet, social media and any avenues they may have to catch the thieves.
The thieves made away with approximately $200,000 in team inventory, ranging from factory parts for the team's race equipment, down to team staff radio headsets, and rider's personal items. A number of these items stolen are extremely identifiable, and are one-off race team items. Provided below is a list of the key items for every industry folk to be on the look out for if possible:
- Factory KTM race parts - not available for purchase and standout items
- Team wheelsets (black Excel A60 rims, Orange/Carbon Fibre wrapped Talon hubs)
- Team BTO graphics kits, specifically shroud kits (these are 2016 versions that carry the logos for BTO, KTM, FMF, RTech and FX. They are the only printed version of this in existence)
- FMF TI exhaust, with Carbon Fiber canister tips and orange KTM graphic
- Talon rear sprockets, Orange team color
- RH 2 Way radio headsets (8 full radios & headsets, color carbon fibre, brand new from A1)
- ODI oversized bars and white half waffle grips
There were many more parts and items stolen, however the above represent key items for all of our industry friends to be on the look out for. Items such as the shroud graphics, are the Factory Effex brand and were one-off digital prints for Anaheim 1, and can be easily identified.
Cash Reward $2500: There is a $2500 cash reward being offered for any key information leading to the return of the stolen team equipment.
Please help us come together as an industry and catch these thieves. If anyone has any information on the stolen items, or have any tips - please contact either the Riverside County Sheriff's Department at 951-696-3000 or team BTO Sports directly at teambtosports@gmail.com .
Unfortunately last night the BTO Sports - KTM team transporter was broken into and over half of the team's inventory was stolen. The burglary took place in the Murrieta, CA area, and the team is asking for the entire industry to come together via the Internet, social media and any avenues they may have to catch the thieves.
The thieves made away with approximately $200,000 in team inventory, ranging from factory parts for the team's race equipment, down to team staff radio headsets, and rider's personal items. A number of these items stolen are extremely identifiable, and are one-off race team items. Provided below is a list of the key items for every industry folk to be on the look out for if possible:
- Factory KTM race parts - not available for purchase and standout items
- Team wheelsets (black Excel A60 rims, Orange/Carbon Fibre wrapped Talon hubs)
- Team BTO graphics kits, specifically shroud kits (these are 2016 versions that carry the logos for BTO, KTM, FMF, RTech and FX. They are the only printed version of this in existence)
- FMF TI exhaust, with Carbon Fiber canister tips and orange KTM graphic
- Talon rear sprockets, Orange team color
- RH 2 Way radio headsets (8 full radios & headsets, color carbon fibre, brand new from A1)
- ODI oversized bars and white half waffle grips
There were many more parts and items stolen, however the above represent key items for all of our industry friends to be on the look out for. Items such as the shroud graphics, are the Factory Effex brand and were one-off digital prints for Anaheim 1, and can be easily identified.
Cash Reward $2500: There is a $2500 cash reward being offered for any key information leading to the return of the stolen team equipment.
Please help us come together as an industry and catch these thieves. If anyone has any information on the stolen items, or have any tips - please contact either the Riverside County Sheriff's Department at 951-696-3000 or team BTO Sports directly at teambtosports@gmail.com .
Wow: Murrieta does not seem too safe.
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When these things happen,..there's ALWAYS a lot more taken than what you get told about (nobody wants to bore you to death with a 2 page list of stuff).
The point: TENS of THOUSANDS of DOLLARS worth of stuff...gone.
STOLEN.
Some of you might say, "No big deal. That's all stuff from Sponsors!"
Those sponsors kick down plenty of money for all those products.
Those sponsors don't always have the budget to simply make that stuff REAPPEAR OVER NIGHT...which, in most cases, it is NEEDED ASAP.
A fellow team sponsor and I spoke about this, today: coming up with ways to help replace lost product RIGHT NOW isn't always that easy.
In-fact, it's VERY Difficult.
The Butler Bros have invested their lives in to building this team.
Things like this can really set a private operation back.
Then there's the Insurance Nightmare...which takes FOREVER.
SO, EVERYTHING about this sucks.
I hate thieves.
Waiting for someone to come along and say that they'll just write it off...
THE
FUCK
Things like this can really set a private operation back.
That's the first thing I thought of, that and how the next race is this weekend, I'm sure there will be parts they need that they can't get that fast.
Something needs too be done about these oxygen thieves getting around
They are that good.
But, this kind of invasion is VERY personal to the group of people that live and race out of that truck.
On a team like this, it's an extension of their homes and the race shop..more so than most teams at this level.
Remember, they run -3- Factory Level 450s out of that truck.
A larger than average crew of people for Hospitality, Sponsors and the VIP Experience and there's a few riders and friends that get help from these guys.
Butler Bros have to "keep it real" and make it happen VERY "cost-effectively"...which is why they have the program and the success that they do.
So, as you can tell, this is very difficult on top of being very "personal" for a lot of people.
Thieves suck.
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BTO team are good people.
Rex Backman
Pit Row
but with that said..
only our sport...would post a $2500???? reward
on $200k plus factory stuff missing?
slap in the dick really.....
You always here about bikes being stolen from Murrieta because there are so many people whose lives revolve around dirt bikes there whether it be for business or pleasure.
Hopefully the low life's are dumb enough to get caught & the Butler Brothers get some justice!
Sucks that someone would be this low and steal this kind of stuff. Hope they get busted and get prosecuted.
Still amazed that stuff valued like that doesn't have serious security devices, alert systems etc. installed. In this day and age it should be easier to protect, use surveillance systems and the like to keep thieves out of your shit.
WOW
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