MOPED ARMY

What steps have you taken so far?

I would plaster that area with fliers offering a decent cash reward.

Contact police

Talk to everyone in the vicinity of the theft for clues.

Scour Facebook marketplace/CL

Post on local Fb groups.

Idk, that is such a nice bike. I really hope you get it back and the theif is sent to prison. (edited)

police will do nothing. check bum camps and it'll show up eventually maybe. i despise sf...worst city ever. if you park a moped over night your shit will get stole 99.9% of the time.

Dam that sucks. Im working in the city today and will keep a lookout for it

You still should file a report with the VIN so that if it does get found and the police are notified, they can match the VIN to the report and notify you. And also if reported stolen, it can never be titled again...

Police also don't look for stolen cars but if they turn up, it just as I described above then.

Shame your bike got taken but those are some pretty good pictures of the background scenery, would’ve love to visit that area in the late 70s but now not so sure!

Sucks that people have to take stuff that don’t belong to them and I feel like taken someone’s motorbike is almost like a horse crimes punishable back in the 1800s,

When I lived in a city hood that started to get bad with crime and such I just moved out of the area! (4 times In my life)

USA is so big I don’t understand why people just don’t move away from those kind of places,

Yeah but doing so you may have to give up your legal weed and mild drug abuse/theft policies that contribute to crime because they have to pay for it someway,

So if don’t associate with drug abusers, drug salesmans or anything like that and be willing to turn them all into the authorities and you could have a good life,

If you wanna live in a community that has all that drug stuff, just a ticket for meth a really hard drugs and shoplift up to 950$ for just a misdemeanor charge ticket stuff enjoy having your stuff taken away!

You'll see it painted over for sure

Just strongarm the street folks, they don't put up much fight if you push em.

I'll keep my eyes out, but it's better here than Oakland for sure

Ironic...there is a police station at the corner of Turk and Fillmore.

People should always register/plate their bikes, not a good idea not to but I know some do.

There’s a chop shop down the street from our moped shop, every now and then we have to liberate a mopeds from them. Seattle meth is something else though, last time this dude pulled a big aluminum refrigerator handle on me. Luckily we had the bear mace in the truck.

^ Got to agree with this, except that most "poor" people are not thieves, but nearly every junkie I've met will rob you blind first chance they get. Many people can't afford to move, or, now take a breath, like where they are, even if it is not all nice and pretty, it is where their friends/family are, maybe even their jobs. If it's true that it is one or two guys stealing the peds in that area, a bait bike should be set out under video surveillance, catch them, zap 'em with a tazer cuff 'em and turn them and the video in to the cops, if that doesn't slow them down, do more than zap them. The word will get out. Drugs are a bitch, and I feel for the addicted, I really do, but an addiction does not entitle you to others property.

Ha, a bit. BUT, one needs to take a step back and understand how that can happen. Live anywhere for an extended length of time and it is easy to think that is how everywhere is. Also, the last 30 yrs or so have seen change (which of course has always been a thing) happen at a rate never before seen in history. This is unnerving to one set in his ways, I'm not picking on him, as I often feel the same way. Just turned 52, and I will not lie when I say my mind is blown by all the tech coming about these days, but I try, (and often fail) to at least accept that it is ok, even if I don't "get" it. Younger folks are not trying to fuck with you, they are just living what they know, at the speed they know. To the younger, remember that you too will be older, and to my age group, try not to bitch about the young, they are just living and loving life as we once did, granted VERY differently. Addiction and thievery are nothing new, but I think because there are just so many more people, and because every mother-loving thing is recorded and reported, it seems worse? I hope the op gets his bike back, and wonder why, as is done in neighborhoods by me, (lower income area's I may add) people don't band together a bit and look out for each other, and their property? In my apt group, the late nighter's, myself included keep an eye on the parking lots and buildings overnight, and the retired and non working types that stay home keep an eye out during the day. There is precious little property crime around here, as the word has gotten out that the people here care, not only about their stuff, but of the belonging's of their neighbors. We see you, we will call the law, and/or deal with you ourselves if the cops will not. Thieves are slackers by nature, they go where no one cares. If we could all accept and get along better, this does not mean you have to be buddy buddy with everyone, but just look out, the thieves would find themselves with more than the law to worry about.

The economics of poverty are why the bike is gone in the first place. :) What can be done to recover it has been outlined, but very little is ever said about how to prevent it in the first place. Just saying. I do hope his ride is recovered, but unless I missed it I did not see a plate...so not holding out a lot of hope, but have my fingers crossed for him. The sad fact is that most bikes are taken not because someone wants a Magnum, but because they are desperate for a fix. Very sad, but potentially preventable, if good people just get together and stand up for their neighborhoods and property.

I hope you find it, but people should also address WHY it was stolen.

I don't think so, but if my idea is not in the spirit of this, move it mods.