BikeTrac, the renowned and proven motorcycle tracking system, has recorded its biggest ever recovery haul, after tracking down one customer’s stolen motorcycle and recovering a further 24 stolen bikes in the process.
Following a significant recovery just a few weeks ago, where the team and West Midlands Police recovered four stolen bikes in containers that were tracked down by just one bike equipped with a BikeTrac unit, the team were then alerted to another theft of a customer’s stolen R 1200 GS from Richmond on Thames, tracking its location to a site in Essex.
BikeTrac’s Bill Taylor, explained, “Initially this recovery looked like a fairly conventional scenario, but quickly the bike was moving around, which meant we had to keep tabs on its location, before it eventually stopped in a large container yard, before the container was then moved to Tilbury Docks.
“Gaining access to such a facility is extremely difficult, and without absolute cast iron proof that a stolen machine is in the area, access is rarely granted. Thanks to our Radio Frequency technology, that we can remotely activate, we were able to prove to the authorities that not only was the bike there, but exactly which container it was in, but unbeknown to us we had no idea what we were about to find”.
After several days liaising with the authorities and working alongside the Metropolitan Police’s Organised Vehicle Crime Unit, the BikeTrac team were granted full access, but what they found was more than anyone bargained for.
Taylor continued, “When we managed to get the shipping container door open, we were met with hundreds of bicycles and several cars, but as soon as these started to be unloaded, the first bike came into view and then another, and another and another, with bikes even hung from the container ceiling, a total of 20 stolen bikes were eventually discovered, but amazingly it didn’t end there.”
With undoubtedly BikeTrac’s biggest ever single haul, the Met’s Organised Vehicle Crime squad found further evidence of this being linked to the previous successful recovery last month with West Midlands Police. A visit to a previously identified location form tracking data led to the discovery of a further five stolen bikes, bringing the total recovery to 25 stolen bikes, all Interestingly stolen in the last three months across a wide range of locations including London, Essex, Sussex, Dorset and Cambridgeshire.
Taylor concluded, “We have been attending the scene of recoveries for more than 15 years now, but this one was without question the biggest we’ve ever witnessed. The number of bikes, the value of those machines and how these had been hidden and loaded, ready to leave the country was immense. We’re incredibly grateful to the authorities for having the faith in our product to allow access. This is very much down to the Radio Frequency technology that we have stood by as a must have on our product since the very beginning of BikeTrac. It;s incredibly gratifying that just one bike fitted with a BikeTrac unit has led to this. A big thanks from us to all involved in this truly monumental recovery.”
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