Biker brothers are back on track after ‘miracle’

Now, they’ve been returned home and Jye, 10, and Lochy, 7, can barely let them out of their sight.

‘‘We were excited and relieved when we got the call, it was a bit surreal for a while. It had been a long nine days,’’ mum Tania Field said.

‘‘I’d taken the boys to the beach for the weekend and on the way down the boys’ dad rang to say the bikes had been found in the bush.

‘‘Our boys just wanted to come back and see them but they had to wait for a couple days.’’

The KTM bikes were stolen on March 28, exactly two weeks after Lochy received his for his seventh birthday.

The boys’ dad Anthony had strapped the two bikes, along with his own, to a trailer attached to his ute which he parked out the front of his workplace at Simplot, ready for a ride after work with the kids.

But at 1.16pm, brazen bandits driving a silver XLT Ranger unhooked the trailer, attached it to their ute and drove off.

Not only were the two boys devastated, Tania said they struggled to sleep at night because they were afraid the thieves would come to their house.

Heartbroken for her kids, Tania put a call out for any information about the burglary on Facebook and was overwhelmed by the response, receiving almost 4000 shares.

Finally, on Saturday, April 6, the bikes were found.

‘‘We don’t know who found them but one of Anthony’s friends picked them up and took them to the police station,’’ Tania said.

‘‘It looks like someone may have taken them off and ridden them. They were filthy and the trailer was full of dirt.

‘‘But besides that they are in pretty good nick.’’

Lochy said he couldn’t believe it when he heard the bikes had been found.

‘‘I was happy when I got the bike (for my birthday) but really sad when I found out it had been stolen,’’ he said.

‘‘I’m excited to get back on the bike and go for a ride.’’

And Jye will be right there with him.

‘‘I spend almost every weekend on the bikes, it’s my favourite thing to do,’’ he said.