Originally Posted by Spanner Man

Morning all.
Sorry to hear of your problems. It's all to familiar I'm afraid, I had a customer knocked off his Fireblade once at very low speed, he rang me on his way to hospital regarding picking up his bike. Unbeknown to me the Police had called out a recovery truck. Fortunately I got there just in time to prevent the recovery moron winching the bike onto the back of his tilt & slide truck on it's side.
His excuse was that it wouldn't roll. All that was preventing it rolling was a warped front disc! I removed the caliper & it rolled perfectly.
He still wanted to take it & argued the toss, but with me being a reasonably hefty Skinhead type after a bit he thought better of it.
After an accident it's probably the last thing on your mind, but one should always ask all concerned about any charges such as recovery or storage, especially if it looks as if there is going to be a dispute over liability that will drag the claim out for a long time.
It's perfectly legitimate for businesses to charge for such things, after all they have done the work, but sadly many don't inform the customer. I suspect that the more unscrupulous hope that they will end up with the bike in lieu of said charges. For it's common knowledge that used bike parts, or 'damaged repairables' can be worth a mint.

Cheers.