Big difference between trashed, looks crap and trashed un-usable. You can for example live with dented tank, scraped bodywork etc, even massive cracks in the fairing can be stuck back together with a soldering iron and taped up.
That previous picture was an interim stage while I located decent panels to replace the ones I'd broken. It was like that for about 5 months though until it ended up looking like this
after lots of buying of bits on ebay! (I did sort the mudguard too btw).
Now this is the same bike (a few years later) after it was a cosmetic write off and I made it into a track bike.
fairing doesn't look too bad does it? But if you look at the full size image
http://www.fastdruid.co.uk/albums/ca...4/DSC_2138.JPG you can see the massive scuffs and the taped up crack in the LHS fairing panel (the silver tape btw is for a camera on the tank). The tank is yellow btw because a pre-dented tank was 6 pounds and my black tank was still decent!
With a repair bill that large the bike *will* be written off, probably a 'C', it then depends on your insurance, if you are fully comp then you may be offered the option to buy the bike back. If you are TPO or TPFT then if found in your favour you'll get a pay out on the pre-accident valuation of the bike minus the salvage value. In my case my <3 year old SV was valued at 3k with a salvage value of 300 pounds.
The first time I crashed it it cost me about 1k to get it sorted again, I did all of the work though. In my case I dropped it and it then slid into a kerb, damage was:
Bent RHS fork
Snapped LHS fork
Bent front spindle
Broken mudguard
Bent radiator
Dented wheel
2 Broken indicators
Scuffed tail fairing
Scuffed / dented tank
bent front subframe
Smashed headlight
Broken lhs mirror
Broken lhs fairing
Bent lhs fairing brackets
Broken centre fairing.
Broken gear lever
Broken clutch lever
Broken rearset hanger
Scraped pillion hanger
Snapped bar weight screw
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