The joys of biking (part VIII )

got knocked off my bike on Fri on way home - at Brixton crossing towards Ritzy
> from Acre Lane, someone comes barrelling through the lights and takes me
> out - he says he missed the lights cos some kids were crossing...ribs are sore, bikes a mess, im back in the bus lane, got insurance
> details and a witness so thats good...anyway , i go down to suffolk to see Di
> and take Helena in car. Down there i happen to have stashed away, another bike
> ...ha ha, only its been standing around and the battery fecked...so charge it
> up, get it going, ride around a bit, then set off for London,,,so im thinking
> shall i fill up now or wait....i wait, next thing it runs out and i cant get
> the switch to turn onto reserve, so i stall, in the middle of the Orwell
> Bridge....im stuck in the central reservation, ive got two goes at starting it
> before the battery dies....no joy, it dies, meanwhile, its getting dark, i
> cant go forward, i cant go back, theres no hard shoulder....time to panic !
> Phone AA, that will be £117 to come and get you going...fahgeddabowdit...Silki
> comes with jump leads and manage to return to Woodbridge...so ive gotta go
> down again to get it with new battery - Kawasaki ZX6R sports bike - quick but
> my thumbs were aching all the way back in the car cos there so much weight on
> your hands....


its all in the joy of biking folks ! and there was i , welcoming some new Hornet owner to the org t'other daythink it will be written off, thinking of gettinhg Hexagon to collect it today, as i havent heard from his insurers, i can do more or less what i want, altho having the Kwak clouds the courtesy bike issue somewhat...

bad luck, unfortunalty i went cross eyed halfway through your post, did you copy it in here or something

tomjones! yes copied the tale in but you get the general sense of my woeful w/e ....im getting Hexagon to take the hornet away and estimate how much to fix ....write off i reckon, they wrote off a diversion i had that was knocked over cos the centre stand was fecked !!! ...just a question of how long it will take em to pay ....anyone want to take a bet .....its bound to be 6 weeks altho i hope a month....

6 weeks, my last payout took six months. BTW you can stop them writing off your bike by using aftermarket parts of equal quatily but much cheaper. e.g. a standard sv650 can is somthing like £600 list decent aftermarket road legal can with a letter of explaination why £200

i got a call from his insureres asking what the damage was...i siad i was getting an estimate, they said they would pay the same day if i got a price ! i would expect them to send an engineer to value it themselves, but maybe not . Hexagon reckon its not a write off and not too bad, altho the list he then read out was massive...

Dk why you are referring to an SV Tom, its Hornets in here innit?

PS - insurer also asked about my injuries, but that is a 6 weeks job to see their specialist...have had Riders Support trying to get me to hire them, dk if i should