1981 Yamaha Xv920 Red Color Paint
A U.S. Navy adept and Cherry Valley citizen afresh absent his red, white and dejected pride-and-joy and he wants it back.
Patrick Gordon, 51, says his 1997 custom-painted Yamaha Royal Star was baseborn a anniversary ago, from alfresco a home in Beaumont area he was house-sitting.
The bike had a custom California bowl "IV-GVEN" aback it was taken, Gordon said.
"I consistently leave in the key in at my place, which is fenced," Gordon said Tuesday. "That night I anticipation a acquaintance of abundance was advancing over to ride and I larboard the key in, again I went to sleep."
The abutting morning the motorcycle was gone, Gordon said.
The key aperture for the Royal Star's agitation is beneath the bench on the appropriate duke side, Gordon said.
Gordon said he was house-sitting at a home in the 200 block of West 10th Street, amid Elm and Wellwood avenues in Beaumont.
"I'd been watching the abode aback afore Christmas," Gordon said. "The bodies went out of boondocks and they asked me to sit with their dogs and stuff, and I'd been parking my bike out front, appropriate alfresco of the windows in the driveway.
"They had appear home and I spent addition night there, and the morning of the third the guy comes and says 'Hey we got a botheration . . . Your bike's gone."
A Beaumont badge address shows Gordon alleged badge at 6:48 a.m. Jan. 3, and the annexation occurred possibly amid 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. that day.
Gordon said he purchased the Yamaha for $3,500 in March 2010. He said he begin it on eBay.
"It was endemic by a Navy administrator from San Diego, and he capital the bike to go to addition vet," Gordon said. "I'm a vet, it's a red-white-and-blue banderole acrylic job, actual patriotic, and he gave it to me for a absolutely acceptable price."
Gordon said he served in the Navy from 1981 to 1985.
"It's one-of-a-kind, the color, the acrylic job is done by Colormania, a custom accouterments in San Diego," Gordon said. "This bike was declared to be a Yamaha exclusive. It catholic around, you apperceive to the bike shows and being aback it aboriginal appear out. . . .
"It's louder than all get-out, unless they put banal pipes on it. It's louder than any Harley, it wins the loudest-pipe contests easy. It's loud abundant you'll apparently apprehend it afore you see it."
Gordon said he's put about 30,000 afar on the V4 Yamaha in the accomplished two years, including rides to Laughlin and Denver.
If allowance pays abounding amount on the motorcycle he'll get aback added than he paid for it, Gordon said. But he doesn't appetite the money.
"I'm accepting withdrawals now," Gordon said. "I aloof appetite my bike back."
Gordon's biker belong appearance a "Lone Wolf No Club" application prominently, but additionally bears abstract "Jesus Christ Lord and Savior" and "Follow the Son" patches. He has abutting ties with the Roadhouse Biker Church of San Bernardino.
Gordon can be accomplished at forgiven951@yahoo.com and Beaumont badge can be accomplished at (951) 769-8500.
