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Originally Posted by
steveD
Blimey what a mess. I have also had my original Tenere stolen and what the scumbags do nt seem to realise that they cannot get it going without the keys.
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It does sound very amateurish and opportunistic. As you say, without keys it's going nowhere. They're not going to get it going for a field bike or to re-sell.
It seems now the only viable options for a bike thief is to spend a fair amount of cash getting the ECU re-written and also disguising the original identity - which seems fairly pointless on risk/return for what is a relatively low value bike.
Broken to repair a crashed or blown bike, or the non-identifiable parts on eBay would be my guess where stolen XTs end up.
Other machines end up on race tracks etc. but on the whole it seems immobilisers seem to have killed off "joy-riding" and only the high value bikes or commonly crashed are targets.
...or have I got that wrong?