May 2023
MAG's Fight Motorcycle Theft meetings arrive at The Ace Cafe for the Hertfordshire meeting on the 14th June.
Have the chance to question our speakers, tell us your experiences and put forward your ideas on how to tackle motorcycle theft.
May 2023
MAG's Fight Motorcycle Theft meetings arrive in Leeds on the 24th June.
Have the chance to question our speakers, tell us your experiences and put forward your ideas on how to tackle motorcycle theft.
April 2023
Colin Brown looks at the main themes raised at the meeting. Thanks to the vast effort put into organising the event by Steve Mallett and Julian (JC) Quinton, the Kent public meeting was a great success. It is always hard to guess how many will turn up when laying on this kind of meeting. I think the fact that so many came out on a wet Wednesday evening is testament to the fact that riders are passionate on this subject.
Brazen thieves have been caught on CCTV stealing more than £40,000 worth of motocross bikes and equipment from a Wakefield shop. Two members of the four-strong gang were not even covering their faces as they broke into Wakefield Off Road Motorcycles on Church Street in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Members of an organised crime group who ran a moped delivery service for class A drugs have been jailed for over 60 years. The group distributed more than 40 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated wholesale value of £1.4m, across London over a period of three weeks in February 2016.
A man from Willesden has been jailed for his role in a “professional and sophisticated” £100,000 motorbike theft racket.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is cracking down on powered two wheeler (PTW) enabled crime with the help of the Motorcycle Industry Association in a new campaign aimed at bike owners.
At the final round of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship held at the famous Kent Brands Hatch Circuit, Datatag and Kent Police, supported by the Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership undertook the last of this season’s bike scanning operations on behalf of the industry’s MASTER Security Scheme.
Year-end figures for new motorcycle registrations show sales for 2014 were up 10% compared to 2013, with an increase every single month throughout the year. 101,277 new motorcycles, scooters and mopeds were registered during 2014, compared to 91,908 the year before. Of this year’s new registrations over 48,000 were smaller commuter-sized machines.
Police are appealing for information after two off- road motorbikes were stolen in a burglary. The incident happened sometime between 4pm on Saturday August 23 and 7.45am on Sunday August 24. Both motorbikes were stolen during a shed break on Charnwood Drive, Melton Mowbray.
Well, how about that: the Sussex Police in the UK has just ran a most interesting and praiseworthy campaign as part of the effort to curb motorcycle theft in the area, visordown reports. The local force has made an agreement with one of the motorcycle parts stores in the area, and offered sets of bike chains and padlocks to the owners of bikes up to 125cc....
11 minutes is all it takes for one bike to be stolen in the US, barely longer than it took back in 2011. Still, one motorcycle is being stolen in the US every 11 minutes or so, 2012 statistics tell us, and even though the number of the stolen bikes has decreased a bit, the difference is only a minor one....
Ramsevak Bhambhri, a resident of a village on the outskirts of the city purchased a petrol motor, for a petty sum, to draw water for his buffaloes. Little did he know that he was sold the 'heart' of a motorcycle stolen from Indore....
TRACKER, the stolen vehicle recovery expert (SVR), offers bike owners a timely reminder regarding the vulnerability of motorcycles to theft. This comes after a stolen Honda Hornet fitted with a TRACKER unit led Metropolitan Police to premises in North London and uncovered an organised crime ring that targeted motorcycles. Once again, TRACKER’s partnership with all 52 of the UK’s police forces helps close the net on criminals....
Recognising the effect that motorcycle crime is having on the motorcycle community, the Motorcycle Industry Association (MCI), has launched an official security marking scheme called The MASTER Security Scheme to be utilised by its motorcycle members...
Following the launch of Bike Trac ATV earlier this summer, the makers of the system (Road Angel Group) have today confirmed the first theft and recovery of an ATV equipped with the system ...
Bike Trac, the renowned motorcycle tracking device from Road Angel Group continued its impressive 100% success rate for the month of May and the year as a whole, with a total of five equipped motorcycles stolen during the month, with every one safely recovered ...
Bike Trac, the renowned motorcycle security tracking system from Road Angel Group, has been selected by Extreme Frontiers: South Africa, as presenter and adventurer Charley Boorman begins filming the Channel 5 TV series this week ...
Motorcyclists making their way to this year’s TT Races have responded well to a Merseyside Police / Datatag joint initiative designed to reduce, and raise awareness of, motorcycle theft ...
Datatag the market leading security system providers have listened carefully to dealers, insurers, the Police and more importantly, their customers and have developed an all new and improved Motorcycle security system for 2009. Datatag is still exceptional value and the most effective theft deterrent security system available on the market today providing riders with peace of mind, yearly insurance savings whilst add ...
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) is pressing for the victims of motorcycle theft to be eligible for financial compensation. MAG consider it outrageous that those who have already suffered the inconvenience and emotional stress of having their bikes stolen should then be billed before they can get their property back. Many victims of theft are horrified to receive substantial bills for the recovery and storage of their bikes ...
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