Motorbike thefts recovered at the worlds largest beach bike race

New Scanning technology has revealed 'stolen' motorbikes at Somerset's Enduro motorcross beach event held anually at Weston-Super-Mare.
Checks by Police Scrutineeers on over 1,400 motorcycles, bikes quads and sidecars entered into the UK's largest motorcross event, the Weston Super Mare beach race, have revealed 70 machines appeared to be suspicious and possibly stolen.



Police used a new device a handheld scanner to check microchips hidden in the frames of the bikes and also checked serial numbers of engines against a database.

An Avon and Somerset spokesman said he was surprised at the high number of "stolen" machines found at the event.

Six machines from the force area of Avon &n somerset were impounded and details of other machines circulated to other police areas.

The Police spokesman added: "We hope that this will provide would-be competitors taking part in the beach race with reassurance and peace of mind that the police and industry take vehicle theft very seriously.

"Avon and Somerset is one of only a handful of forces to have formed a specialist vehicle crime unit and the new scanning is particularly useful for an event such as this," he said.

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