Just had my 1st off

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Erm the AA dont usually do crashes - only breakdowns.........

I should add that they DID recover me from Manchester to London after an off once, but that was with some judicial description of the fault - it was described as the gear lever having snapped, and as they dont do spares of those...........

You bike being in bits may be harder to blag.

[Red Herring]

ps: I forgot to ask, are they going to sting you for any damage to the barrier?

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

Just tell them it did break down, the forks fell off....causing you to crash?

They'll argue as soon as it's been involved in a rta then they won't I'd be tempted to prop it up and pretend I'd ridden it like there then call them out if the recovery dude says anything do the puppydog eyes thing and flash a bit of cleavage....or if you have dignity slip him a tenner.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

ps: I forgot to ask, are they going to sting you for any damage to the barrier?

If they do ensure they replace it with a biker friendly barrier.

IIRC there was legislation introduced about a year ago saying all the councils had to replace the cheap barriers with biker friendly ones but the clause was 'when they next need replacing'. So ofcourse all the councils went out and bought brand new cheap fencing so it wouldn't need doing in ages

Yep..and hopefully not an astronomical amount of repairs, or I'll be getting one of the orgs fine folk to help me break the "Silver Fox" up for a parts sale.

So it was the A21 slip toward Westerham then...

You must have been caning it to go down there mate. Glad you're okay though.

Originally Posted by Red Herring

ps: I forgot to ask, are they going to sting you for any damage to the barrier?

Well one of the posts was bent in the collision, and the Police did say the local council may drop me a repair bill for it. So that'll be another expense I'll need to fork out for.

It's amazing how the services want to bleed you dry.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by slloyd

Well one of the posts was bent in the collision, and the Police did say the local council may drop me a repair bill for it. So that'll be another expense I'll need to fork out for.

It's amazing how the services want to bleed you dry.

That should be covered by your insurance as its 3rd party damage.

[Dave20046]

if he wants to claim

Originally Posted by Jdubya

So it was the A21 slip toward Westerham then...

You must have been caning it to go down there mate. Glad you're okay though.

I must of entered the slip road at around 60mph, thinking I could get around at that speed judging the sweep of the bend while decellerating, but it veered up on me too quickly.