Crashed my bike :(

I could be wrong here, but you may be able to weasle out of paying this.

When my mate had his car nicked last year, the coppers told him where it
was. He asked them to leave it there, and he would pick it up at the end of
the day. Got there to find that it had been removed to a recovery yard
against his request. Refused to pay bill, got car back anyway.[1]

You could argue that you asked the police to leave it by the side of the
road so that you could arrange your own recovery. Spend the money you save
on a better jacket for next time


[1] There's more to it, but it really requires telling over beers. Suffice
to say, if you ever see a "Hinton Rescue" van coming to pick up your
vehicle, just set it on fire and claim the insurance. It'll be a lot less
hassle...

 

Sawing the Elton John CDs in half?

 

BGN scribbled:

Sorry to hear about your off Nick, but bones and things are OK which is
what counts

Looking at your pics what I'd do is check no pipes are damaged coming
from petrol tank (i.e. see if you can work out where it came out) and
if thats safe then drill couple of holes to let you put two long bolts
in where right footpeg was (maybe just unbolt whats left of existing
one if brackets not snapped) and rear brake (if you CBA about the
brake), plug the plug back into the rev counter, wash off the worst of
the mud and ride it home.

Check the headstock carefully first though, the forks don't look bent
to me but I'm wondering if the headstock is smashed? Check brake levers
and things beforehand obviously, and with engine running turn bars from
lock to lock to ensure throttle cable isn't fecked, and have a little
pootle round the yard to see if the bike feels normal or odd.

With any luck you'll need right peg, rear brake pedal, right brake
lever & mirror, the bracket for the clocks/light unbending, surround
for the headlight maybe, rear cover for speedo & rev counter, right
front indicator. And might need new master cylinder for front brake.

It'll look 10 times better once you've washed the mud off, trust me.

 

I was looking at the pic of the scene and wondering: "How the feck did
he manage to crash *there*?"

 

BGN said...
You're still in one piece and walking, so that's a good thing.

Bit of gaffa tape round the clocks and it'll be fine. My old lid was
worse than that, it was fine - you just had to turn your head a bit
further to see what was coming from the right.

 

ROTFL
--
Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 155 TS
Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

The Older Gentleman emerged from their own little world to say

Read the OP again. Saw mud, stared at mud, finished up in mud.

 

Inexperience?

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

BGN says...

I reckon 2-300 quid will see that bike back on the road again. Another
couple of hundred will have it back to sparkly. If the forks are bent
then you can have them straightened. It cost me 35 quid to have my
GPZ500 ones done and they were obviously bent. Even if they are bent
and no-one locally will straighten, forks come up on eBay quite
regularly and new stanchions from Kawasaki aren't as expensive as folk
think. From what I can see there, yours may just be twisted in the
yokes. The rest looks pretty good, new brake lever/pedal, possible set
of handlebars, headlamp shell/rim/bracket and an indicator should see
you back on the road with the rest left a bit scruffy.

Get the bike home, and then give it a bloody good and sympathetic clean
down, making sure you don't grind mud and grit into the paintwork. A
powerhose will help there. From then on you can get further advice from
Cheritons or Alfords about what bits need replacing/repairing and what
you can live with as scuffed up. Radiator looks fine, which is a bonus,
as is the waterpump. The major damage is to the clocks, but they are a
little fragile on ER-5s. Buy a used set from a breakers or eBay and
save a fortune.

You got off lightly and those engine protectors did their job well,
keep them.

If that's all the damage to the helmet then I'd just buy a new visor,
or a new Nitro . Considering the battering your jacket took, I
wouldn't rule out buying the same again. A 60mph slide down the road
will shred any cordura material and lets face it, you aren't the
smallest of people so it will have been a fairly heavy impact with the
deck. If you want more in the way of protection from this sort of
thing, buy leathers. Corduara will keep you dry and warm, but don't
expect too much when it comes to crashing.

Email me if you need any advice or need to source parts.

 

Lady Nina wrote:

Self harm has never been an attractor for me.

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

BGN wrote:

It's a bit ditrty, mate.

Muck off and water and it'll be as good as new.

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

They look a little bent to me. I bent the forms on my Bandit, and got
them straightened again. The old biddy who pulled out on me payed
though,

Maybe. Being mindfull of the forks not being quite right.

 

Lucky him... a couple of years ago, I had one nicked on the Sunday
evening... spent the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights flying about in my
other car (1) looking for it in places in the local area famed for being the
favourite strip out and / or 'rag the tits off it' locations of the local
toerag community, only to receive a phone call on the Wednesday lunchtime to
say that it had been recovered on the Monday afternoon, and was in storage
at a local recovery place.

I refused to pay anything other than the actual recovery charge, which they
accepted without too much of a squabble... hardly surprising, since they
were getting over £100 for plucking said car out of a field within 3 miles
of their premises.

I laboured this point with Kent Police, who stated their policy was to get
the car recovered, then inform you of where it had been recovered to, to
ensure it didn't go walkies in the time it took between them informing you
of where it was, and you getting there.

In other words 'we don't give a ****, we just want to wash our hands of it
asap, regardless of whether or not you could actually get here relatively
quickly if we just rang you...'

(1) Car pinched, was a Nova GTE... my other car at the time, was a Senator
24v... and I had every intention of ramming the little cunts into a tree, if
I'd seen them driving it - a fitting end, to two of Vauxhalls finest, I'm
sure you'll agree.

 

That's gone and done it. Best of luck.

 

Also, when I got knocked off at ~45mph in a belstaff padded
"pro-biker"[1] it didn't hole, and resisted abrasion quite well.
Melted in parts, but generally held together.

[1] obviously not

 

Me neither, but it's best not to rely on it as a method of keeping your
bike upright.

 

Heh, I'm now too worried to take the bike out.

Think I'll just stick to polishing it

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Kinnel. Are the Lib Dems in already? Free motorbike with every degree?