Just before sunrise on Friday, a crew in a flatbed truck turned Cycle City Hawaii’s showroom into a drive-through and vanished with three motorcycles, the dealership said. Surveillance video shows a white flatbed and a support van rolling into a fire lane beside the building, then repeatedly backing into the glass storefront before suspects hopped out and loaded the bikes onto the truck. Staff estimate the stolen machines are worth about $30,000, and the store’s security company has already handed the footage to police.
According to Hawaii News Now, JN Group’s director of facilities said the flatbed and van circled the property as if they were casing it, then the truck reversed into the showroom’s glass front multiple times. Once the glass gave way, suspects went inside, grabbed three motorcycles and took off. The director said the crew exited via Puuloa Road and then turned onto Nimitz Highway. Police are now reviewing the surveillance video and investigating the theft.
Video shows a methodical, three-hit break-in
“It’s basically a very large garage door, and they smashed the glass,” the director told Hawaii News Now, explaining how the suspects kept backing the truck into the front of the shop to punch through the entry. He said one of the stolen bikes was a KTM model with anti-theft technology that can cause the engine to shut down after roughly 30 minutes, potentially limiting how far thieves can get. JN Group plans to further harden the building’s exterior to ward off future raids, and the director pointed to a similar smash-and-grab on Maui months earlier as part of a troubling pattern of dealership-targeted thefts across the islands.
Police appeal and what riders should know
Police are combing through the video and asking anyone with information to come forward. In a recent roundup of two-wheeler crimes, brazen bike bandits coverage noted that HPD and CrimeStoppers have been pushing surveillance clips to the public in similar cases, and the department lists multiple contact options on its site. To report tips about the Cycle City theft, contact the Honolulu Police Department at (808) 529-3111 or visit the Honolulu Police Department, or submit an anonymous web tip to CrimeStoppers Honolulu.
Dealerships and riders are being urged to tighten up security now, not after the next break-in: reinforce storefronts, add physical barriers or roll-up doors, keep keys locked down, and use heavy chains, alarms and cameras on parked machines. JN Group says it will invest in exterior upgrades at the Cycle City showroom, but local owners say solid locks and fast reporting are still the best tools to get stolen bikes back. Anyone with dash- or door-camera footage from around the time of the heist is asked to share it with police, as video has been crucial in several recent recoveries.
