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4/21/2017 7:03am
I'm sorry to report that my son's 2015 CRF250 was stolen out of my shop last night. We bought the bike new and it's going to be super hard for us to replace at this time. I did not have insurance on any of our bikes. I have homeowners but as most of you know that only covers one motorized maintenance vehicle, aka lawn mower.
We live right on the GA/AL state line in no where Alabama. We are one of those people that financed a new bike. Our last payment comes due on sept 29th. So 7 months from paid for it's gone. We may or many not have theft insurance thru the loan. I just have to find my paperwork. Even if we do though I'm pretty sure it just covers the remaining loan balance. My son was coming over yesterday (took the afternoon off work) to clean and prep his bike for the Monster Mountain LLQ this weekend.
I've seen numerous times where you guys mentioned buying a rather cheap policy to cover shit like this. I had even inquired to Geico about it one dayrecently as I was adding my toy hauler to my policy but they kept me on hold to damn long so I hung up. I still have several other bikes that they left alone. Namely my grandsons's 2016 KTMSX50 and several other play bikes. Who's a good insurance company to go with on this?
I never thought it would happen to me or maybe I was just that naïve. I live in a pretty decent working class neighborhood (we are all poor working class) and never locked my doors to the house and left my keys in my car.
I've been here for 27.5 years, I guess it was bound to happed sooner or later. I've filed a report but we all know how this will probably go.
I cant make up my mind if it was some meth heads or some wheelie boy champs looking to make a video. I'm kind of leaning toward the latter as meth heads would have cleaned me out instead of getting one specific bike. I've seen a big group of these wheelie boy wannabe's one town over and have been noticing some random kids riding dirt bikes and 4 wheelers on the side of the roads lately (racing bikes and quads) wearing no helmets or boots and they obviously didn't appear to be someone that bought the bikes (yeah I'm stereotyping).
Anyway guys it you see a Honda CRF 250 (had number 471 on front plate) anywhere along the I85 area on the GA/AL line I can be reached at 706-773-4162. We are just inside an hour from both Atlanta and Montgomery so who knows where it will end up
We live right on the GA/AL state line in no where Alabama. We are one of those people that financed a new bike. Our last payment comes due on sept 29th. So 7 months from paid for it's gone. We may or many not have theft insurance thru the loan. I just have to find my paperwork. Even if we do though I'm pretty sure it just covers the remaining loan balance. My son was coming over yesterday (took the afternoon off work) to clean and prep his bike for the Monster Mountain LLQ this weekend.
I've seen numerous times where you guys mentioned buying a rather cheap policy to cover shit like this. I had even inquired to Geico about it one dayrecently as I was adding my toy hauler to my policy but they kept me on hold to damn long so I hung up. I still have several other bikes that they left alone. Namely my grandsons's 2016 KTMSX50 and several other play bikes. Who's a good insurance company to go with on this?
I never thought it would happen to me or maybe I was just that naïve. I live in a pretty decent working class neighborhood (we are all poor working class) and never locked my doors to the house and left my keys in my car.
I've been here for 27.5 years, I guess it was bound to happed sooner or later. I've filed a report but we all know how this will probably go.
I cant make up my mind if it was some meth heads or some wheelie boy champs looking to make a video. I'm kind of leaning toward the latter as meth heads would have cleaned me out instead of getting one specific bike. I've seen a big group of these wheelie boy wannabe's one town over and have been noticing some random kids riding dirt bikes and 4 wheelers on the side of the roads lately (racing bikes and quads) wearing no helmets or boots and they obviously didn't appear to be someone that bought the bikes (yeah I'm stereotyping).
Anyway guys it you see a Honda CRF 250 (had number 471 on front plate) anywhere along the I85 area on the GA/AL line I can be reached at 706-773-4162. We are just inside an hour from both Atlanta and Montgomery so who knows where it will end up
We had a total of 5 race bikes stolen on two different occasions. Ultimately the guy who stole them was the same guy who turned them in for reward money. We at first thought and treated this guy like our hero. Thanks goodness we had detectives who knew otherwise.
If you live in a semi remote area then look for people riding bikes on land. They likely not going to a race track. Could be a good ole country boy who took your bikes and is now just riding it on farm land. That's as likely as a meth head or wheelie boyz.
The Shop
I'm on the lookout here in Ga I assure you.
You are correct on insurance - I know both Geico and Progressive offer policies, for a year you will pay less than you probably blow on a race weekend. It's definitely worth it. Geico gave me very fair value for the two bikes I had stolen in Hawaii.
I insure both my 2016 YZ250F and 2015 TC125 through progressive. Both are around $200/Year to insure.
# a-hole.
I'm an asshole for sure but I'm an insured asshole. It's just common sense.
You should be forced at the dealership to show proof of coverage when you finance.
Very sorry to hear gharmon, here's hoping someone spots it or the police can chase it down!
All of this is moot now as it's been recovered!! Minus broken hand guards it's fine. So thanks to the guys that arent butt fucks about shit!
Pit Row
This place is full of geniuses and amateur smartasses anymore. UnGDreal.
They wouldn't say it to your face but have no problem from behind a keyboard.
glad you got it back.check everything. people do weird crap.
Glad you got your bike back.
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