Sylvie down and damaged

[Jayneflakes]

Really Fecking Pee'd off.

A work mate reversed her estate car into my SV today, knocking her off the side stand and causing a small amount of damage and a dent or two.

The reason given was that the reversing sensors did not sense a bike, so she hit it quite hard.

Once she stopped crying, she promised to pay for the damage and I wandered down to my local shop for a quote.

The list of damage is as follows
Handle bar bent.
Tank dented.
Fairing scratched down through the plastic.
Mirror scratched.
Clutch lever scratched.
Gear lever bent.

Quote for repairs came to over £350 for basic repairs. Shop recommended a new tank due to dent being on the side and being hard to respray and keep the long graphite coloured Suzuki logo. They also think that a new fairing and mirror will be needed.

Sylvie is my baby and I am absolutely gutted. What makes it hard is that it is my friend, who is an ex biker, who knocked it over. Looks like I am going to have to take it to her insurance because she does not want to pay that much. I am rather upset, I love my fecking bike and keep her waxed and polished. Now she looks beaten up an scratched.

If she's an ex biker, she should know better than to rely on bloody sensors.

Sorry to hear about it, at least they put their hands up though. If it happened at a supermarket and nobody was around, they'd probably drive off and leave it on the floor

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Really Fecking Pee'd off.

A work mate reversed her estate car into my SV today, knocking her off the side stand and causing a small amount of damage and a dent or two.

The reason given was that the reversing sensors did not sense a bike, so she hit it quite hard.

Once she stopped crying, she promised to pay for the damage and I wandered down to my local shop for a quote.

The list of damage is as follows
Handle bar bent.
Tank dented.
Fairing scratched down through the plastic.
Mirror scratched.
Clutch lever scratched.
Gear lever bent.

Quote for repairs came to over £350 for basic repairs. Shop recommended a new tank due to dent being on the side and being hard to respray and keep the long graphite coloured Suzuki logo. They also think that a new fairing and mirror will be needed.

Sylvie is my baby and I am absolutely gutted. What makes it hard is that it is my friend, who is an ex biker, who knocked it over. Looks like I am going to have to take it to her insurance because she does not want to pay that much. I am rather upset, I love my fecking bike and keep her waxed and polished. Now she looks beaten up an scratched.

When the "too reliant on technology" idiot's (good job she's an ex-biker if her observation skills are that shot), insurance has finished, Sylvie will look as good as new - just refuse to let them write her off.

Open and shut no-fault case - make sure you get a loan bike while Sylvie is off at the beauty parlour/health spa. From memory, tank and fairing are about £600 onto that bill.

[BanannaMan]

Sorry to hear Jayne.
Hope Sylvie is all shiney again soon.
Intentional or not, she damaged your bike and it needs to be put back to the same condition it was.
If she's a real friend she'll understand that.

Aww heck that's a bit shoite. Just glad to hear it's not an off and you're the damage. Some mate though eh! But accidents do happen, it will teach her in future, just a shame your Sylvie had to be the guinea pig. Insurance will be sorted and she'll be as good as new, don't be too upset burd, they're strong these SVs

Work mate or not I would be insisting on insurance claim as that is quite a lot of damage and expense.It should have no reflection on your insurance as it is a non fault accident.

It could just as easily been a baby in a buggy which could have been a disastrous
outcome

[Stingo]

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

Work mate or not I would be insisting on insurance claim as that is quite a lot of damage and expense.It should have no reflection on your insurance as it is a non fault accident.

It could just as easily been a baby in a buggy which could have been a disastrous
outcome

Good point...perhaps some of us do become too reliant on technology...or perhaps some of us are just cr@p at coming up with a suitable excuse for our actions!
Hope the bike gets fixed up ok.

[Geodude]

Gutted for you Jayne and hope that sylvie gets back to pristine condition without to much hastle. As others have said relying on reversing sensors and gadgets to drive for you is daft, what happend to using your eyes. Driving standards are awful these days, spend 10 minutes in your local supermarket carpark and watch what drivers are doing and how much damage to other vehicles is done, its an eye opener.

for you Jayne. x

Gutted for you Jayney. If she's an ex-biker then hopefully she'll understand that you need to go down the insurance road and get your girl back to the best possible condition.

[andrewsmith]

Gutted to here that Jayne.

Like DT I'd be looking at claiming via the Insurance.
Sounds like its a good thing she's an ex-biker