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Good morning everyone; in the past few months I found my ducati 851 sp3 n.153 stolen in Italy years ago.
it happened by chance while watching a video from the Biggellar workshop on Facebook (video now deleted), in the video, of which I uploaded a frame, you can see the engine of a track 851 warming up. I immediately recognized my bike from the many details that I modified and built myself;
- the aluminum giocamoto front frame,
- the forks prepared with the "K-Service" sticker, a company from Milan,
- the carbon tank with the larger sticker ,
- the footrests from Gifrap (a company from Milan),
- the complete Termignoni exhaust system,
- the mirror-polished swingarm,
- the same Marvic wheel rims with wide channel,
- the handcrafted aluminum undertail for the control unit,
- the Ohlins steering damper by a Bimota Sb8,
- the used hydraulic preload of a Cagiva Elefant,
- the perforated and lightened rear caliper support,
- the brembo gold series calipers p4
even the same special screws that I had used to mount it!!!
I'm 1000% sure it's my bike! So I immediately wrote to Toine van de Biggelar on Facebook to warn him that that 851 was stolen, he responded by sending me photos of the steering plate and the frame of the bike. The photos are the ones I uploaded here.
In the steering plate you can easily see how my number "153" is still present under the sp3 n.188, furthermore the font used for the n.188 is different in size from the official Ducati one.
Furthermore, the original 851 sp3 n.188 is owned by a nice gentleman in Denmark, who bought it new and kindly sent me a photo of his bike!
The chassis number has clearly been counterfeited, the number ZDM888S 000115 is crooked, printed by hand, instead Ducati used a machine, it is also missing two symbols, the two stars before and after the number.
To confirm I called Ducati directly, where they confirmed that they had NEVER produced a motorcycle with that chassis number.
Then I also wrote to NCR, where they told me they had never marked any chassis for 851 and 888 with that number.
I made a regular police report about everything and they immediately warned me that it would be very difficult to recover the motorbike, investigations were too complicated, communication difficulties between countries, too much bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, realizing that the motorcycle had a unclear past, Toine van de Biggelar blocked me on all social media and deleted the videos and photos from Facebook.
I investigated a lot and discovered that the bike was Vagn Jensen's personal track bike for many years kept it in the club house next to another 888 of the driver Andy Meklau, we spoke to each other and he contradicted himself several times by saying that he had bought the forks at a market in England then on eBay from an Italian, but I didn't recognize the forks, I recognized the whole bike, in the end he told me that he had sold the bike a short time ago to an Englishman called Paul Reynolds from London.
The motorbike appeared on social media because Mr. Reynolds had a 996 engine fitted by Biggelaar in Holland.
To date I have no further news of my motorbike and even the Italian police can't tell me anything.
I tried to contact the new English owner, but in addition to giving me a false name (Paul Marshall) he claimed to have also changed the engine block and therefore for me it is impossible to prove that that is my motorbike, an ignoble behavior that should not allow him the right to be a motorcyclist.
I am writing here today in the hope that someone can help me recover my motorcycle and also that all of you be careful, the motorcycle is stolen and will probably be hidden or torn to pieces. I am not willing to let it go and I can assure everyone involved that this will cost them in the future
