That was how Cardrona monster truck owner Ian Soanes viewed the theft on Sunday night or Monday morning of his 15-year-old, $3000-$4000 motorbike.
"It's not worth a lot of money but it's the sentimental value ... I'm absolutely gutted."
The yellow Suzuki RMX 250cc two-stroke enduro bike is the same one Mr Soanes, the "wheelie king", rode down and then up the world's steepest street, Baldwin St, in Dunedin, on one wheel in 2010.
It is easily identifiable because of the extra shock on the back wheel.
"It's the best wheelie bike in the world," Mr Soanes told the Otago Daily Times as he totalled up the losses from the burglary of his shed at his Cardrona Adventure Park.
Mr Soanes lost $400 in cash, a welder, a drop saw, car batteries and an angle grinder, none of which was insured.
And he suspects it was all taken away on a tandem trailer he had just acquired but not yet used.
Mr Soanes has been driving around Wanaka and Hawea in the hope the bike had been dumped somewhere.
"It doesn't look like it's worth anything so they might have taken it for a joy ride and left it."
He is offering a $500 reward for the return of his property.
