If you are from the Portland area, please be on a lookout for this Trampa EMTB that was stolen from this guy’s storage…clearly an inside job since it was a very specific unit. Was told there was no security cameras. He was totally being watched putting that thing in!
Wow… the audacity of some people to do awful things will never cease to amaze me. I’ll be on the lookout online, best of luck to Mr. Dye in getting it back.
That sucks I don’t think I would ever people something that I valued in a storage unit. I would only put clothes and furniture. You always hear of people finding expensive things in storage units when they sell off the the units that have defaulted.
I hope they get it back as that is a nice looking board.
I had over 3,000 comic books stolen from a storage lot a few years back.
I hate to even think what some of those are worth I’ve been collecting regularly since I was a child. Lots of first editions in first appearances.
The biggest issue with this is that GPS receivers are passive. So even adding a GPS receiver to the board won’t do you much good unless you also have a bidirectional cellular comms of some sort. There are low-bandwidth newer standards like NB-IoT and CAT-M that are just now entering the market though, so I feel like this sorta tech is quite a bit more feasible.
I’m tinkering with a NavCom embedded computer in one of my carvers right now that has a cellular modem integrated, still need to get robust mounting for the GPS module/antenna figured out. This was mostly for some advanced telemetry and logging I’m playing around with, but a ‘Lojack’ style system could definitely be implemented.
I spoke with Jason D today on this, unfortunately it was more than just his board that got stolen. I think he might actually be covered under the insurance of the storage facility so it’s not a complete loss. It didn’t have the battery in it either. We’re on the lookout for anything getting posted on local OfferUp/Let go/CL.
He will ride again, regardless. But man people suck.
So I may be wrong and don’t want to start a witch hunt but I’m in the Portland area and am seeing this board on OfferUp that looks mighty similar. Maybe someone could point out a difference between them if I’m wrong. https://offerup.co/YGxdmaiBCW