Interesting week......

****, glad you ok.

I want to get a free helmet as well now.

[Stu]

****e Dan that's bad to hear.
Have you actually got the money out of the kid? otherwise it could be difficult to prove at a later time that he was even on the road let alone had anything to do wwith you. But I'm sure you would say you have your methods
Surprised you got pushed sideways across the road with no damage except to you!

Take care out there!

Glad you see it as positive

Originally Posted by Stu

****e Dan that's bad to hear.
Have you actually got the money out of the kid? otherwise it could be difficult to prove at a later time that he was even on the road let alone had anything to do wwith you. But I'm sure you would say you have your methods
Surprised you got pushed sideways across the road with no damage except to you!

Take care out there!

Glad you see it as positive

My mate Scott said the same thing. He saw it all from behind (ooer). In fact I think the only damage is to the car from my slider being as he bumped with me some force..........oh **** not again! I'm half expecting the driver to report me.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Bear

Bad luck buddy, but I'd get the top of the line lid if I was you!

That's the good thing about Arai's - their cheapest is advertised as being as safe as their most expensive (not sure if that extends all the way to the Hamster tested one?)

Edit : seems it is

One standard for every rider.

Did you know that Arai's most famous racing champions wear the exact same Arai helmet you can buy? Really. No special, racer-only models whose only resemblance to the one you buy is the paint scheme. This fact should tell you a lot about Arai and its standards. In the words of Mr. Mitch Arai, the president and son of the founder: "Arai has only one standard.
All Arai helmets are made the same, whether for a world racing champion or a street or dirt rider.
How can you say one person's head is worth more than another's?"

[SoulKiss]

Should have got the cops involved.

I dont care why he was driving uninsured, he shouldn't have been on the road.

What if he had taken you out and you lost a leg?

What about if when the swelling goes down you find your knee doesn't work as well as it did.

Will be hard enough to get compensation from the Uninsured Drivers Board (or whatever they are called)

If you have come to a private agreement then you can forget about it.

Doesn't matter who it is or for what reason - uninsured is uninsured.

David

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Doesn't matter who it is or for what reason - uninsured is uninsured.

David

Agreed, but from my experience of unisured drivers the law seems unbothered about them anyway. A slap on the wrist, they loose the licene in harsh cases (if they had one to begin with) and off they go. A friend of mine was hit by an uninsured rider, he broke his toe and wrote off his new gixxer 750. This was in 2003. He is still awaiting any compensation for injury and he has lost 5 years NCB AND the accident goes against him as the insurance company could not recover the loss of the bike. What happened to the uninsured rider? Well he was a soldier so he got £300 fine and 6 points. Big fecking deal! Not only was his bike not taxed, MOT'd or insured but the rear tyre was also bald. So all in all my mate came off worse even though he was fully legal and did nowt wrong. What's the point for a grazed knee, slighlty scuffed bike and broken helmet? The law makes it easy for these people to get away with it. If my leg falls off in the next 6 months I have a witness at the scene who saw the lot.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Kwakadan

If my leg falls off in the next 6 months I have a witness at the scene who saw the lot.

Meanwhile he has 6 months to get 2 mates together to say that he was elsewhere at the time...........

Also (but I am not sure on this - Ed where are you :P ), I believe that your "gentlemans agreement" with him could prejudice any legal issue on this.

Glad you're ok mate. There sure are some loons out there at the mo

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Meanwhile he has 6 months to get 2 mates together to say that he was elsewhere at the time...........

Also (but I am not sure on this - Ed where are you :P ), I believe that your "gentlemans agreement" with him could prejudice any legal issue on this.

Perhaps you are correct mate. And thinking back maybe I should have got the Rozza's involved but he was quite young, inexperienced and scared sh*tless at the time. He's also paid me most of the money I've asked for so even now I've made some out of the ordeal but yes I was very lucky really. Just hope it doesn't happen again, these things happen in three's they tell me! Anyways, thanks for the well wishes, but it takes more than 2 suicidal drivers to get me off the road..........

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Kwakadan

Anyways, thanks for the well wishes, but it takes more than 2 suicidal drivers to get me off the road..........

B**ger spent so long debating in my own head whether to jump in on this one the way I did to say

GLAD YOU ARE OK(ish) :P

Sorry mate

David