trashed a mates bike earlier :(

been checked out by my GP.

a couple of broken ribs, lots of internal bruising and my headache will eventually go
not bad i thought.

Mostly right Chris. Compulsory third party bodily injury insurance (CTPI) is through the various GIOs underwritten by government, is paid at the time of registration and accounts for more than 90% of the bill. It has been a while since I looked, but the actual registration is something like $40-50pa (~GBP20-25pa), CTPI something like $700 and GST (VAT) slapped on top of that. Anything that could be called a road tax is on fuel, nearly all of which slips into general revenue.
FWIW, liability always falls (it's in law) on the vehicle and the registered owner. That might seem a bit rough but it is equitable and probably saves a lot of squabbling. That extends through to the non compulsory 3rd party property insurance (TPI). An un-registered (therefore uninsured) vehicle is not a risk in terms of CTPI because I am covered under my own CTPI (riders pay quite a bit more than cagers for this reason) as a third party, but then so is the other guy despite being in a world of poo (and not entitled to any sort of payout in the event of a permanent injury - insurance will put him back together again) for being uninsured. On the TPI front I ensure that I am insured against the uninsured.

i have a claim going through another route, a mate did the same and he was sorted out. just because the writing on your documents state third party only its doesnt spell the end of it

Hopefully that works out for you, whatever that is.

Originally Posted by rotax81

it will need all lights, flashers etc.
forks.
yokes.
swingarm.
front wheel.
discs.
poss rear wheel.
subframe.
switchgear.
bars.

We broke a complete good condition 600 SRAD yesterday at work - pm me for details.

Originally Posted by Ed

That is one nasty accident, you could be dead now

London members will wonder what all the fuss is about. But wild deer are a menace, their numbers have increased enormously over the last few years, and we need to have a cull. Not quite in the rotax way I posted on the deer nuisance just the other day, one ran out of the hedge on the Shrewsbury bypass, fortunately it stayed by the roadside.

Hope you heal up quick, and look after your balls!!!

I had one dozily walk across the road in front of me three days ago, while I was on my Versys. As I haven't been too well recently I was taking it very easy for once and managed to slow down, hit the horn and swerve around it, but it did give the poor animal a bit of a shock before it skedaddled back from whence it came. I was only doing 50ish, where I'd normally be doing close on twice that fast down that bit of road.

We get a lot of deer wandering in the road round these parts too, and one of them was responsible for me rolling an Astravan over 4 times in early 1990. Me and my ex-missus <spit> were lucky to escape that one unharmed

Originally Posted by Lozzo

We broke a complete good condition 600 SRAD yesterday at work - pm me for details.

the whole thing less the engine and exhaust?

the engineer looked at the bike on tuesday and said the damaged parts will be about £12,000 to replace from suzuki.
might be just about written off then

Was talking to a guy in a bike shop earlier and someone in Northumberland got hit by a deer last week at Scots Gap, it actually jumped out of the hedge and hit the rider!! What are the chances? He has quite a few broken bones apparently. Bet the poor deer was sorry

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by rotax81

the engineer looked at the bike on tuesday and said the damaged parts will be about £12,000 to replace from suzuki.
might be just about written off then

only surviving piece is the chassis then?

Sorry to here that mate

Originally Posted by rotax81

the engineer looked at the bike on tuesday and said the damaged parts will be about £12,000 to replace from suzuki.
might be just about written off then

£12k ???
You could buy 2 new bikes for that

[yorkie_chris]

You could buy about 12 used SRADs for that too!