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Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales
Did you not get offered a hire bike in the meantime? If it appears to be 100% third party fault, you can usually get a hire bike (at £60+ per day) and the bill is footed by the third party (gives them an incentive to pay up sooner - on one claim I had, the hire bike came to more than the rest of the claim put together. Probably too late now but legal cover/your insurer should help you sort out a hire bike and handle it for you - worth remembering in case it happens again.
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Hi Sveedy,
I did get offered a hire bike, but it would of only been available for the time the bike was unrideable (whilst waiting for the garage to approve it as safe to ride), also at that stage whilst I was confident that I was 100% clear of any blame, my concern that the other party was prepared to outright lie about what he did made me think there was a possibility it could go to court and costs could be split (even if only 80:20 in my favour 20% of the hire bike costs would be way too high).