Knocked off my bike today!!
05-08-2006, 07:44 PM
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Knocked off my bike today!!
Driving down a duel inner-city duel carrigeway in Leeds City Centre. I'm in the outside lane coming up behind a slow travelling Vauxhall Tigra in the inside lane....just as I enter her blind spot area she decides she wants to take a right turn across my lane down a street 
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I had zero time to brake and hit the side of her car about 30mph!! I had a helmet/gloves and jeans/jacket on [only nipping to the shop so didn't put my leathers on
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Anyway I'm fucked! Knees and forearms are both killing me, but worst is the left hand side of my midrift/chest
Knackers
I was supposed to be going to Germany on the bike this Wednesday
.I had zero time to brake and hit the side of her car about 30mph!! I had a helmet/gloves and jeans/jacket on [only nipping to the shop so didn't put my leathers on
]Anyway I'm fucked! Knees and forearms are both killing me, but worst is the left hand side of my midrift/chest
Knackers
I was supposed to be going to Germany on the bike this Wednesday
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05-08-2006, 08:48 PM
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Cheers guys...she has admitted liability at tthe scene so I'll claim through her insurance.
Don't give a damn about the bike....its only a machine a can be replaced no problem.
I am in quite a lot of pain [the hospital pain killers are starting to wear off!!]. They wanted to keep me in overnight but I didn't fancy it so I've come home!
Don't give a damn about the bike....its only a machine a can be replaced no problem.
I am in quite a lot of pain [the hospital pain killers are starting to wear off!!]. They wanted to keep me in overnight but I didn't fancy it so I've come home!
06-08-2006, 08:18 AM
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To those saying maybe I should have worn my leathers...they wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference ..... my injuries are from the initial impact on the ground [i.e. midrift]. [My knees and elbows are only superficial grazing which admittedly the leathers would have stopped]
The leathers I have don't offer any real impact protection in that area so wouldn't have helped. My jeans or top didn't tear right through....the helmet saved my life though as I did wack it with some force and the gloves also saved my hands!
Pics of the car/scene:
The leathers I have don't offer any real impact protection in that area so wouldn't have helped. My jeans or top didn't tear right through....the helmet saved my life though as I did wack it with some force and the gloves also saved my hands!
Pics of the car/scene:
06-08-2006, 08:29 AM
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shit. glad your ok m8. i nip out on my cbr in my jeans and jacket to work as its only 2 miles but seeing an accident makes you think but i guess ill still do it. doh. its clear to see why your in pain too when you see the damage to the tigra 
get better soon m8
get better soon m8
06-08-2006, 05:55 PM
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Anyone with any experiance with bikes offer any opinion on getting it repaired? Do you think its a right off??
Damaged:
- Wing Mirror
- Front Dicky
- Rear Dicky
- N/S headlight
- Upper and lower fairing [N/S]
- Engine Casing
- N/S foot rest hanger
- Rear fairing needs painting
- Rear grab handrail [N/S]
- Rear hugger
- And the rear sub-frame appears bent [the seat/tail is no longer in line with the rear wheel]
- Rear wheel axle/nut/cotter pin
- Bar end
Its worth about £2500
Damaged:
- Wing Mirror
- Front Dicky
- Rear Dicky
- N/S headlight
- Upper and lower fairing [N/S]
- Engine Casing
- N/S foot rest hanger
- Rear fairing needs painting
- Rear grab handrail [N/S]
- Rear hugger
- And the rear sub-frame appears bent [the seat/tail is no longer in line with the rear wheel]
- Rear wheel axle/nut/cotter pin
- Bar end
Its worth about £2500
06-08-2006, 06:03 PM
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glad to hear your ok m8.. nice also to see you tore a hole in her back wing...
i had a m8 that was killed in a similar accident a few year's ago.. it was on a main road tho so a bit faster.. fookin car driver turned right without indicating!!
as said above the cbt should be compulsery before getting into a car!!!!
i had a m8 that was killed in a similar accident a few year's ago.. it was on a main road tho so a bit faster.. fookin car driver turned right without indicating!!
as said above the cbt should be compulsery before getting into a car!!!!
06-08-2006, 07:11 PM
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Sorry to hear that mate We're all so vulnerable on bikes and takes one second of madness from another road suer to stick you on your arse
I would guess write off. I had similar on my first bike and they wrote it off. Fairings are expensive
Mine was worth similar amount maybe less. They gave me £2k and the bike which i sold for £700 to a breakers. Sorted
chop
We're all so vulnerable on bikes and takes one second of madness from another road suer to stick you on your arse
Originally Posted by John Laverick
Anyone with any experiance with bikes offer any opinion on getting it repaired? Do you think its a right off??
Damaged:
- Wing Mirror
- Front Dicky
- Rear Dicky
- N/S headlight
- Upper and lower fairing [N/S]
- Engine Casing
- N/S foot rest hanger
- Rear fairing needs painting
- Rear grab handrail [N/S]
- Rear hugger
- And the rear sub-frame appears bent [the seat/tail is no longer in line with the rear wheel]
- Rear wheel axle/nut/cotter pin
- Bar end
Its worth about £2500
Damaged:
- Wing Mirror
- Front Dicky
- Rear Dicky
- N/S headlight
- Upper and lower fairing [N/S]
- Engine Casing
- N/S foot rest hanger
- Rear fairing needs painting
- Rear grab handrail [N/S]
- Rear hugger
- And the rear sub-frame appears bent [the seat/tail is no longer in line with the rear wheel]
- Rear wheel axle/nut/cotter pin
- Bar end
Its worth about £2500
I would guess write off. I had similar on my first bike and they wrote it off. Fairings are expensive
Mine was worth similar amount maybe less. They gave me £2k and the bike which i sold for £700 to a breakers. Sorted
chop
06-08-2006, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by John Laverick
Anyone with any experiance with bikes offer any opinion on getting it repaired? Do you think its a right off??
Damaged:
- Wing Mirror
- Front Dicky
- Rear Dicky
- N/S headlight
- Upper and lower fairing [N/S]
- Engine Casing
- N/S foot rest hanger
- Rear fairing needs painting
- Rear grab handrail [N/S]
- Rear hugger
- And the rear sub-frame appears bent [the seat/tail is no longer in line with the rear wheel]
- Rear wheel axle/nut/cotter pin
- Bar end
Its worth about £2500
Damaged:
- Wing Mirror
- Front Dicky
- Rear Dicky
- N/S headlight
- Upper and lower fairing [N/S]
- Engine Casing
- N/S foot rest hanger
- Rear fairing needs painting
- Rear grab handrail [N/S]
- Rear hugger
- And the rear sub-frame appears bent [the seat/tail is no longer in line with the rear wheel]
- Rear wheel axle/nut/cotter pin
- Bar end
Its worth about £2500
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