{"id":23012,"date":"2014-08-20T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23012"},"modified":"2014-08-20T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:17:48","slug":"big-bikes-not-attractive-to-motorcycle-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/20\/big-bikes-not-attractive-to-motorcycle-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Big bikes not attractive to motorcycle thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_106818497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23014\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_106818497.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_106818497\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_106818497.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_106818497-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2013 Motorcycle thefts are escalating in the Metro, but owners of big bikes can breathe a sigh of relief, for now. It seems that bike bandits are not fond of costly big bikes, which \u2013 despite their high price tags \u2013 are more difficult to get rid off in the stolen goods market.<\/p>\n<p>Bike thieves are in the know that is harder to find a buyer for these big bikes \u2013 those with engine displacements of 400 cc and above \u2013 or their spare parts.<\/p>\n<p>As Chief Supt. Arrazad Subong of the Philippine National Police\u2019s Highway Patrol Group (HPG) pointed out in an interview on Tuesday: \u201cThere is no wide market for big bikes. Motorcycles are very common to ordinary folk but not big bikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to HPG records, incidents of stolen motorcycle theft increased from 1,578 from January-June of 2013, to 2,866 within the same period this year. This is almost twice the amount of bikes stolen this year than last year.<\/p>\n<p>Subong pointed out that these thefts did not involve big bikes, noting that a big bike is \u201ctoo expensive\u201d and \u201ceasily recognizable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are few big bikes here compared to ordinary motorcycles. Also, owners of big bikes take care of them well so there is no high demand for spare parts,\u201d Subong said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect would consider if there\u2019s a market for the vehicle he\u2019s eyeing. Will he make a profit immediately? Those are the factors. Besides, it\u2019s harder to hide because it\u2019s easily recognizable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>HPG data shows that 3,170 motor vehicles and motorcycles were stolen from January to June 2014. This reflects an increase by nearly 100 percent from last year\u2019s registered thefts of 1,881 vehicles stolen within the same period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Subong pointed out that of the 3,170 cases this year, 304 thefts involved motor vehicles while 2,866 involved motorcycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2013 Motorcycle thefts are escalating in the Metro, but owners of big bikes can breathe a sigh of relief, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[7469,7470],"class_list":["post-23012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-big-bikes","tag-bike-theft","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}