Katana Owners Club U.K.

Parked the bike up at the roadside in a reasonably-sleepy Derbyshire village (Bradwell, Hope Valley) today for a whole 3 or so minutes, outside the doctor's, and some unmentionable person appears to have swiped my left-hand fairing lower. Other one was (and is now double) screwed to the main fairing, so they didn't get that, but wonder if they wanted it?

Not happy!

GSX Katana 750 S1 model. It's painted blood red metallic, so not standard.

Anyways, just on the offchance, if anyone is offered one or asked to do a paint job or knows anything at all about who or where it might be, please do let me know. I'll keep an eye on EB etc.

Cheers.

i was in derbysjere today, in buxton, didnt see no kats though!

just a daft one but did it simply become detached?? seems an odd thing to steal??

not at work at the mo, but 'may' have a spare??

Yeah, I thought it was weird too, especially in such a short time. But I had checked visually as I got off the bike and it was there.
Began to doubt it myself, retraced my ride twice and then went back out in the car later with the Missus and checked for debris or anything that could have fallen off, and nothing at all to see. Asked if anything had been handed in to police or local shops and businesses too, but nothing.
All I can tihnk of is that someone wanted both sides, which clip on/off easily usually, except that the RH side was actually screwed on. After all, I guess that if they can be gotten off quickly and you know anything abut the bike/model in question, it's worth it opportunistically given how much they sell for on EB (or perhaps someone wanted one or both for their own or a friend's bike?)

If you've a spare I'd be most obliged. Annoyance is, it's a one-off paint job and it'll have to go back to the very expensive sprayer to matc the other side (or else I have to spray bot sides black or whatever, not as nice as I'd like).

Hey ho...

if you parked in town, was there no cctv near where you were? report it to plod if there was, and they will get the footage.

johnr wrote:if you parked in town, was there no cctv near where you were? report it to plod if there was, and they will get the footage.

See original post re "sleepy village".... CCTV? Wossat?

Have phoned Plod and reported it, but all I got was an acknowledgement and an e mail saying that they are treating the case as "closed" immediately as there's nothing they can do.

Funnily enough it was parked pretty near thier one adn only local 'police station' - only its opening hours are somewhat variable - or none - it really being a tea room as far as I can see.

All that Plod round here are intersted in is catching and prosecuting with extreme prejudice (and that last word isn't a joke in this context!) those awful heinous criminal motorcyclists who dare to ride at 1mph over the assigned speed limits on any of the popular roads such as Cat & Fiddle, Snake, etc (and some just normal day to day roads for me). They love hiding in vans with speed cameras, but apart from that, not sure that they actually exist, certainly not to prevent any form of day to day real annoying crime...
Does make me wonder what we bother paying for.