Nottingham dealer The Off Road Centre, hit the headlines after it stepped in to help a round-the-world adventure rider stranded by bike thieves. Yogesh Alekari, from India, had travelled through 17 countries, covering 15,000 miles, on his KTM 390 Adventure before it was stolen from Wollaton Park in Nottingham at the end of August. After seeing Alekari’s plight on social media posts and in the news, The Off Road Centre in Mansfield Woodhouse supplied him with a new KTM 790 Adventure, plus kit, to get him back on the move.
Ben Ledwidge, boss at The Off Road Centre, told the BBC, “With it being our home town, we thought let’s see if we can help him.
“I don’t think he believed it to begin with. We’re going to follow his journey now and see how he gets on.”
The Off Road Centre held a special going-away event on 19 September, which included Hindu ceremonies at the local temple, as Alekari set off for the next leg of his world tour, to Africa.
Meanwhile, according to the BBC, Nottinghamshire Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in Doncaster on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and other offences. A firearm, an extendable baton and quantities of cannabis were also recovered from a property, and the man was further arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm without a certificate, possession with intent to supply Class B drugs, and possession of an offensive weapon in a private place.
Officers are, though, still trying to trace the stolen motorcycle!