Dead Bike

As many of you are aware my bke has been Cat C due to an accident. Well today they came and collected the bike i was shocked. The guy pushed my bike on to the salvage truck then strapped 2 ratchet straps to the front and rear wheel and started tightening. He tightened the straps that much you could see the front fork bending and the back wheel moving backwards till it could go no more and the bike making nasty cracking noises. Then he came to me a said i could buy the bike back from they (Not bloody likely). My poor little bike has never treated so badly even during tthe accident .

It was Cat C? With frame damage? I wouldn't have bought it even before seeing them do that to it.
Depressing when you have to let them go, though, isn't it.

to be honest the frame was only damaged where the gear changer had got pushed into the frame. no more than stone chips but because it brushed aluminium it cant be repaired now i will have to put up with 05 ZX6R

Poor man, I'm sure you'll be able to console yourself, eventually.

I was always under the impression that any damage, however slight to the frame meant at least cat b, but oh well. I remember you saying that the guy who did the assessment didn't know much about bikes, though.

Yeah and now im treading on dangerous ground someone at the wives works rides a ZX6R and has told how powerful it it is so she not happy i dont think i should have told her i was getting a smaller bike though by moving from a 650cc to 636cc. She must have misunderstood and thought it would be slower and cheaper to insure opps

I had a similar thing happen when my bike was returned to me after my accident!
It was delivered to me after I had bought it from the insurance company on the back of a car transporter, strapped down on it's left hand side with no less than four ratchet straps!
They also fobbed me off for three weeks telling me that they were too busy to return it and then said they were going to deliver it three times & didn't! When they did, it was (very) late and was delivered by one bloke on his own! Bear in mind that the front forks were bent & snapped and the front wheel was broken as well as the rear wheel being locked due to the brake pads having rusted to the disk from their wonderful(!) storage!!

He basically dragged the bike off the transporter and bounced it up the driveway (which is rather steep!!). He did ask for some help with moving it though!... I was in plaster up to my knee on one leg and up to my elbow on one wrist as well as tghe other wrist being in a splint!!

Any way - once he'd gone, I noticed that my left hand side Gilles rearset had been broken! They were one week old at the time of the accident and luckily, I had seen them a month or two previously and taken photographs that proved they were not broken in the accident (the bike fell on it's right hand side and the right Gilles is scratched - the left isn't scratched - just broken at the mounting plate!), so I'm still waiting for a damage claim to come through against the recovery agents!