{"id":599747,"date":"2026-09-14T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599747\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:14:11","slug":"team-rees-race-bike-stolen-in-rotorua-recovered-after-rider-crashes-into-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599747\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Rees race bike stolen in Rotorua recovered after rider crashes into car"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bike was taken<\/a> from a Rotorua signwriter\u2019s place between 7pm on Wednesday and 6am on Thursday, September 3.<\/p>\n

When it was recovered, it had been painted black, had bent handlebars, a scraped exhaust and damaged fairings. The fairings had also been painted black.<\/p>\n

\" The custom-built 2023 Honda CBR650R was red before it was stolen.<\/p>\n

Rees picked the bike up from Rotorua and it is now back in the Team Rees workshop.<\/p>\n

The team had been preparing to build a replacement bike but had not started the work.<\/p>\n

Rees said he was relieved to have the bike back; building another race bike would have meant more time and expense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to build another motorbike, you know, because a fair amount of work goes into building from a road bike to a race bike.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stolen bike had about $10,000 in parts added, with upgraded suspension, fairings and exhaust among the modifications.<\/p>\n

It will need a couple of days of work to repair the damage before its fairings are repainted and the bike is sent back to the signwriters. <\/p>\n

The bike is expected to be up and running before race season starts for the Honda race team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bike was taken from a Rotorua signwriter\u2019s place between 7pm on Wednesday and 6am on Thursday, September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1558,1070,3944,15979,29422,17153,78,296,196422,111,139,69,4056,7798,8694,117232,1071,31124,1327,213,13672,4736,7187],"class_list":["post-599747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-been","tag-bike","tag-car","tag-crashed","tag-crashes","tag-damaged","tag-in","tag-into","tag-motorcycles","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-race","tag-recovered","tag-rees","tag-rider","tag-riding","tag-rotorua","tag-sports","tag-state","tag-stolen","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}