HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Thieves rammed a flatbed truck into the glass front of Cycle City Hawaii’s showroom and stole three motorcycles early Friday.

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Owner JN Group’s director of facilities said the break-in happened just before 5 a.m. near Nimitz Highway and Puuloa Road.

The company’s director of facilities told Hawaii News Now surveillance cameras captured the truck and a support van entering a fire lane next to the building.

He said the truck then “drove around the building, apparently looking at our facility — casing it, if you will — to see what opportunities there were to break in.”

The director said the truck then exited onto Puuloa Road and turned onto Nimitz Highway, where it stopped and reversed into the building.

“It’s basically a very large garage door, and they smashed the glass. They backed out and rammed it a second time, then a third time. They backed out like they were going to ram it a fourth time, but they stopped,” the director said.

“At that point, the other individual in the van went inside the facility, determined which motorcycles they were going to take, selected three, and loaded them into the back of the truck,” he continued.

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The three bikes were worth about $30,000, the director said.

He said one was a KTM motorcycle “which is a very popular motorcycle, but what they didn’t realize on the KTM is the KTM has some really great security features that prevent things like theft, so after the motorcycles run for about 30 minutes, they will die.”

Surveillance provided to police; more security planned

The director said the flatbed truck cab and the van were both white with no specific markings. He said the store’s security company provided surveillance video to police.

The director said the theft isn’t impacting business, but the company had already planned to further harden the building’s exterior.

“As a company, we’ve been thinking about this a lot,” he said. “We’ve been watching what’s been happening in Honolulu over the last year or two. We’d already planned to secure — harden — the outside of our building to prevent this.”

The director said a similar smash-and-grab happened at a location on Maui several months ago.

“We recommend all businesses remain vigilant,” he said. “Look at ways your business could be targeted, then do what you can to harden your building to prevent something like this. You can’t 100% prevent it, but you can work toward making it better.”

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