First Off...

TVM

 

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q...21c$0$223$&rnum=3

in summary, 2 criteria:

a) cannot be ridden home, and
b) expensive damage - £1000 or 25% of bikes value.

On this basis my off doesn't qualify on grounds of b) (unless the SV is much
worse than it looks or Suzuki parts are horrendously expensive).

Cheers

 

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:23:44 -0000, "Andy Ashworth"

[FBOTY]

You will soon find that both criteria apply, I suspect.

The solution is to replace only those parts that are vital - and to
use pattern parts where possible.

 

Poor little innocent tangerine. What did it ever do to you, eh?

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

When I had a spill with a tea mug in my pocket I was fucking crippled for
a week.

 

Then you too can have a bike that looks shit

 

Well I crashed mine a total of 3.5 (.5 was on the same day as one of the
others and it was more 'fall over' then 'fall off') so you've got 1.5 to go
to beat me

 

I was reading an old copy of Men's Health in the gym [1] yesterday and it
was commenting on how easy it is to die
by being hit in the chest by a baseball or cricket ball - something to do
with causing a blood spike that makes your heart get confused and stop...

Wonder if a tea mug would do the same thing?

 

Given the regularity of incident that afflicts the SV mob, I would
suggest that replacement of every affected part for cosmetic reasons
is a fool's game. Sooner or later (most likely sooner) the bike will
be dropped/crashed/fall over again, eventually causing enough damage
to the example component to justify its replacement.

#;-)>>

 

My SV was the only bike I've owned (apart from the Thou) that I never
crashed or dropped.

 

Yes, but you are in the minority.. though at the moment Curium hasn't
crashed his SV either...

 

It's only a matter of time, though, surely.