WHEN HARRISON SAUNDERS PURCHASED HIS DREAM BIKE ONLINE FROM PORTUGAL HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS REALLY BUYING
Imagine scanning the world for exotic bike parts so you can build your dream bike, and a genuine factory bike falls in your lap. You bag the deal of the century only to find out the bike is stolen. Not only that, it belongs to your childhood motocross hero on the other side of the world. What do you do?
This is exactly the situation that Harry Saunders found himself in when he unknowingly purchased five-time world motocross champion Joel Smet's stolen 2003 championship winning Factory KTM 550. The bike was stolen from the Sportimonium Museum near Brussels in Belgium in 2015 and through an unlikely chain of events, it ended up in Melbourne. This is Harry's story.
THE HOLY GRAIL
“I have been collecting 2000s era KTM parts since 2018 for a project build I am doing,” Harry explained. “My initial plan was to build a Tyler Ratray replica KTM 125cc but that turned into building a Marc de Reuver 2003/2004 model and after being able to
