Author Topic: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.  (Read 4603 times)

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2015, 03:43:49 PM »
The last reply from Mike on that page also provides some context for the amount of the $1000 reward for information.  I know I made a joke about it above, but it wasn't my intention to belittle the strategy, just to make a fun observation about the relative amount of drama in 2 unrelated and not-very-comparable theft incidents.

I would point out, though, that there are plenty of scenarios where the information would come from someone other than a friend of the thieves getting motivated to turn their friends in.  I imagine that there are plenty of things that regular citizens see that they don't question or think to report until a reward makes them scour their memories and reconsider what they might have seen.  "Two guys pushing a sport bike down the street" may or not be the stolen bike and it would be a hassle to make a report for the low probability of making a difference - but a reward brings out all of the tidbits onto the table, only one of which has to pan out.

I'm glad they recovered it, but one of them was charged with Aggravated Theft.  I usually associate the word aggravated with the use of a weapon - perhaps it was the high value of the vehicle?  Or a tie in to gang activity?
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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2015, 06:06:05 PM »
"Aggravated Theft

    In some states, aggravated theft is the highest degree of theft. In Oregon, a person can be charged with “aggravated theft in the first degree” if he or she steals anything that’s more than $10,000.00 and commits theft in the first degree. In some states, aggravated theft can also be charged when a person physically harms the victim, hurts someone else, or damages expensive property during the act of stealing.



Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8730188_difference-between-theft-aggravated-theft.html"

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2015, 07:06:15 PM »
Saw this @ lunch today:

http://www.kdrv.com/news/Police_Recover_Stolen_250000_Motorcycle_.html


Re: Polaris.  I imagined it was conjecture, to the best of my limited-but-recent knowledge no Polaris dealer is supporting Brammo customers yet (or... are they?).

I've never dealt with them, I don't know how Polaris normally supports their customers, or how they may treat a red-headed stepchild acquisition.

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2015, 07:29:54 PM »
sometimes

Yes, let's go ask MsBrammoFan about that.

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2015, 09:04:26 AM »
I participated in the recovery of the bike from the thief's bedroom closet. Took 2 of us to get it out of there with a lot of back and forth and rear end lifting of the bike. Would've been near impossible to get the bike in there without assistance. He crashed it through the drywall in the house at least once and we discovered blood on the front of the bike. Definitely not a criminal mastermind... Just looking for a quick buck and made a bad choice 1. To steal a bike. 2. To steal an electric bike and 3. To steal a one-off, carbon fiber bodywork prototype electric bike. Even with the bike mostly intact, he's managed to do about $30k in damage owing to the carbon and 3d printed prototype parts he busted up. If it had been a production bike, it might have only been $1000. He told the cops he was aiming to make $500 bucks selling the parts...

I hope this event allows him/them to get help as they clearly were living under strained conditions. I'm just happy to have the bike back in a working and repairable condition. We have a contactor built in to the battery modules for safety - I.e. If the bike is off, there is no exposure to the 400Vdc battery bus voltage. Given his disassembly techniques, he's lucky that safety circuit is there or he might have ended up in the hospital or worse...

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2015, 12:21:29 PM »
Thanks for the first-person report, Brian.

I took one look at their mugshots and knew these were not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2015, 01:57:35 PM »
Stealing a 400V race bike... does that insure they will be charged with "battery?"

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Re: Brammo Empulse RR Race Bike #3 stolen from Brammo Talent last night.
« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2015, 05:29:51 PM »
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