Guilford County resident Jimmy Rice would take his family on dirt bike trails, as a way for everyone to bond and spend quality time together. But now, that will be harder to do, because someone has allegedly stolen five of the motorized two-wheelers.
“Most of the time, we have three weekends of the month we are gone racing somewhere in our camper,” Rice said in a WFMY report. “ If we are not competing, we are off trail riding somewhere traveling and trail riding, or we are just riding here with the neighbors during the week.”
The bikes, valued at about $40,000, disappeared Monday night. Rice said the theft surprised him and he has never dealt with theft in the past.
“At about 8 p.m. that night, we decided to call it quits, went in the house, normal bedtime routine, went to bed woke up the next morning, and I stuck my head to grab something here in the shop before I went to work and I noticed that all the dirt bikes were gone,” he said.
Now, he’s second-guessing himself, wondering what he could have done to prevent the theft.
“I think ultimately these guys were good,” he said. “I think they knew what they were doing.”
He and his sons are staying optimistic that they’ll get the bikes back one day, but until that happens, one of their family pastimes is on hold.
“It’s going to take more (than) this to keep us from doing what we love to do, I do know that,” he said.
The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
