57 Motorcycles Stolen From KTM Canada Warehouse

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Edited Date/Time 10/25/2021 2:45pm
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Mix of KTM, GasGas & Husqvarna were stolen from their warehouse in Montreal.



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10/20/2021 6:02pm
Brutal. That’s probably our whole countries allotment of bikes for the year! Blink
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10/20/2021 6:05pm
Weird to see those 21 factory editions, figured those would have been sold a long time ago
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10/20/2021 6:11pm
57 bikes! How many truckloads is that?
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10/20/2021 6:17pm
Wow. Is that total about $500K CDN?

Didn't say above, but I assume they were all still crated. But, you would still need a lot of trailer space to get away with 57 units. Crazy.
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10/20/2021 6:25pm
kage173 wrote:
Inside job
It almost has to be. Professional job, that's for sure.

How long would it take to steal 57 bikes?
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10/20/2021 6:44pm
kage173 wrote:
Inside job
-MAVERICK- wrote:
It almost has to be. Professional job, that's for sure.

How long would it take to steal 57 bikes?
I would guess it was a trailer or shipping container stolen.
Stealing a container would only take 5 mins with an experienced driver with a side loading trailer.
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10/20/2021 6:48pm
Keep an eye out for 57 good deals. If anyone comes across one I’m in the market 😳
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10/20/2021 7:00pm
kage173 wrote:
Inside job
-MAVERICK- wrote:
It almost has to be. Professional job, that's for sure.

How long would it take to steal 57 bikes?
Just like the great Canadian maple syrup heist!! Almost always an inside job. Especially in Montreal.
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10/20/2021 7:13pm
Just like the great Canadian maple syrup heist!! Almost always an inside job. Especially in Montreal.
That maple syrup heist was something else. Something like 15 million dollars worth of it if I remember correctly.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of those bikes are already on a boat leaving the port.
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10/20/2021 7:19pm
dereck519 wrote:
Weird to see those 21 factory editions, figured those would have been sold a long time ago
I'm sure they were all spoken for on pre-orders, but they gotta make it to the dealer in order to be "sold". Seems some deposits will be getting refunded.
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10/20/2021 7:28pm
Those bikes are in containers on cargo ships already, likely heading to Dubai.
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10/20/2021 7:32pm
Nothing new i believe ski doo just got robbed of 2 trailers full of sleds
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10/20/2021 7:48pm
No 350sxf’s or mc350s or fc350s were stolen so the rest doesnt really matter.
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10/20/2021 7:49pm
They won’t ever find those bikes, remember the dozens of 50s stolen from the supercross folks?
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For sale Orange dirt bikes. Edmonton Alberta. Prices vary. Cash only.
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10/20/2021 8:02pm
Brutal. That’s probably our whole countries allotment of bikes for the year! Blink
More like one dealers...but brutal anyhow. That is a total inside job...
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10/20/2021 8:06pm
All efi bikes will have their ecu locked. They are paperweights....
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10/20/2021 8:20pm Edited Date/Time 10/20/2021 8:21pm
three9zero wrote:
All efi bikes will have their ecu locked. They are paperweights....
Vortex ecu?
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10/20/2021 8:44pm
fins227 wrote:
They won’t ever find those bikes, remember the dozens of 50s stolen from the supercross folks?
I actually don’t, and am curious, have a link?
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10/20/2021 8:46pm
Most of those bikes are completely useless until they’ve been registered with KTMs system. It’s a pain in the ass for us dealers but unless the thieves intend to strip them for parts(likely) they’ll be mostly useless.

This is going to directly affect my paycheque, I had deposits on 4 KTMs, I wonder how many I’ll have to refund. Fucking thieves, I hope they all rot in cells.
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10/20/2021 8:56pm
The time to load up 57 crated bikes is fairly substantial. Substantial in terms that a few minutes is a looong time in this day and age of sophisticated alarms / surveillance / security patrols. Unless KTM Canukia had crap security.

I wonder if it was a Container with the bikes in it, that was snaffled?

However it was done, it sucks.

A fair few years ago, Yamaha OZ had a break in, and 20 / 30+ bikes got lifted.

It created quite a rift with one of my relos, as I am pretty sure they bought one of the YZ250 that was taken. Just after the theft, he was boasting of getting a YZ for peanuts.

I told him it was almost certainly stolen, and, if I ever saw it, I'd be taking down the engine and chassis numbers and handing them to my mates at Yamaha, and the Police. Said relo was / is a F**kwit, of epic proportions, our one true Black Sheep of a honest, hard working clan, so f**k 'family ties'.

He took it away to a distant place (after he said he had it at my property in the west of our state - he got there before me and took it away after I'd ripped into him) , says he still has it (but is that piss poor a rider it intimidates him) , and I still tell him I'll hang him out to dry if I ever get near it. He's one of those people my 'primitive' side comes out on, and I've snotted the prick many times over the years. He is Absolute Scum.
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10/20/2021 8:59pm
fins227 wrote:
They won’t ever find those bikes, remember the dozens of 50s stolen from the supercross folks?
I actually don’t, and am curious, have a link?
Search the forum…
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10/20/2021 9:13pm
kage173 wrote:
Inside job
-MAVERICK- wrote:
It almost has to be. Professional job, that's for sure.

How long would it take to steal 57 bikes?
Also agree that the theft was initiated from the inside. It has to be. Run a polygraph on all staff starting at the bottom.

Here's a story that relates. Back in the early 2000's I worked for a weathly entrepreneur. Roughly $750,000,00 was nicked from his office one night. He was smart. The next day we (all staff) stood lined up waiting for a run on a polygraph test. It wasn't long before this chick in the line broke down in tears...she was the owners wife's sister.

She quicky confessed that her boyfriend took the loot. He also worked for the company but had called in sick that morning.

The culprit went on a few days binge (crack) before they picked him up and had already blown a fair chunk of cash.

The owner who is still a great friend of mine to this day dropped charges but not before he beat the living crap out of the thief.

Back to the stollen bikes. Based on the vast quantity of bikes stolen I reckon this with be a short investigation before being resolved.

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10/20/2021 9:33pm
bh84 wrote:
Most of those bikes are completely useless until they’ve been registered with KTMs system. It’s a pain in the ass for us dealers but unless the...
Most of those bikes are completely useless until they’ve been registered with KTMs system. It’s a pain in the ass for us dealers but unless the thieves intend to strip them for parts(likely) they’ll be mostly useless.

This is going to directly affect my paycheque, I had deposits on 4 KTMs, I wonder how many I’ll have to refund. Fucking thieves, I hope they all rot in cells.
I was wondering about that. I can’t imagine the KTM ecu is impossible to hack? No idea though.
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