Corner + oil = fence... + writeoff

[Kornholio]

Give that man a DB

Thats more of a punishment than a reward

[justsomeguy]

Glad to know you will live to ride again. Please buy yourself some decent pants with hard armour. I hope your jacket has hard armour too. Otherwise throw it out and get one with hard armour.


Best of luck with everything.

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Burger - a bike in parts costs more than a bike whole. That's why it may cost $10K to fix a $7K bike - the same reason stolen cars and bikes go straight to a chop shop.

[ducatilover]

good you didnt get wasted mate! hope you get back on a bike quickly. welcome to the sire

[Sketchy_Racer]

I wanna buy that bike off the insurerer

[Jamezo]

I wanna buy that bike off the insurerer

Heck yes!

Vic student then? Did you used to park that bike in the top bike park? If so, I drooled over it every day.... (I had the skanky RG150). Such a tradgedy...

You got some cash RG100? How well do you think it'd go in streetstock? :P How much to do up to road-worthiness ya reckon?

[dnos]

glad your ok buddy, bet that was a very scary experience.
And yeah i bet the insurance company will sell it on, with new vehicles they are quite nice when it comes to replacing new cars/bikes (not that i would know from experience)

[XP@]

It sucks to fall off, just try think of it as an education and you will be fine :-)

If you have a reasonable house contents insurance then you will be able to claim for your gear, which is now basically wrecked.

[Sketchy_Racer]

Heck yes!

Vic student then? Did you used to park that bike in the top bike park? If so, I drooled over it every day.... (I had the skanky RG150). Such a tradgedy...

You got some cash RG100? How well do you think it'd go in streetstock? :P How much to do up to road-worthiness ya reckon?

well from the photo i am still shitting myself as to where the 10000 worth of damage is.

For street stock. Its not the fastest or the best handeling but its not the worst either.

And no i ZERO cash.. acctually i am negeative $2000 atm

[Jamezo]

yep. so what's your estimate of the repair cost?

after market rearsets
plastic work
new flux capacitor
what else?

[IfeelsDizzy]

Been so busy lately! finally I'm now at work, free to do nothing!

Thinking back I guess I should have soiled myself, but as soon as the peg started digging in I didn't have enough time to panic, it was more like "OH FUCK". If you've been in a big accident you'll know what I say when it was kinda like a dream as it was happening, all that adrenalin etc I guess.
...Not to mention the drivers around wellington, I have them to blame for my near death experiences in these 2 short months (Not this accident though, surprisingly). I seem to attract morons when I'm driving or riding, my entire family believes it. e.g. my second week learning to drive a car, someone ran a red at the bottom of onslow, almost had a head-on with the silly bitch if I hadn't have stopped (this is where the 70k area goes on to 100k).

Jamezo: Yeah, I'm at vic, that was most likely me parked at the cotton carpark :P. Poor bike! Very gutted.. a nice reminder almost every day borrowing a car to park about 10mins away in the depths of kelburn JUST to avoid the parking wardens...

As for the damage, both sawyers and swann have told me the bike amounted to $9,900, and the fence was something like $289.99. If I have time today I'm going to check out my bike and ask for the full damage report.

Another thing, is that we didn't end up needing a trailer, my brother just brought along some vice-grips, put it in second gear and dad rode it all the way home so the damage can't be THAT bad...
I also noticed one of the brakes were dragging, the back caliper also completely moved when I used it and the brake pedal was very soft. That and what's in the photos pretty much sums it up.

As for my gear: My jacket is fully armoured, almost untouched, maybe a few marks here and there
My helmet: untouched
Gloves: left glove looking slightly weathered but relatively untouched
Draggin jeans: a few holes that didn't go through the kevlar, I now love them even more than I did before the accident!
My boots: Not sure, the left one had better days. the toe slider coped it quite well, and the leather is looking a little worn.

As for armoured pants: I'm going up to tauranga with my brother some time in September, I had planned on buying some then. Hopefully I will have my new bike broken in by then (fine! "run in"!), and my restricted licence, if all goes well.

[IfeelsDizzy]

I've been told that the bike will probably be auctioned off, I'm very keen to bid on it myself too... IF I have money at the time :P. Will find out what happens to it when I can.

Oh also, Jamezo: did you happen to take a comp102 paper last semester?

[nezorf]

i lookin at a bike like urs or a aprillia rs250 but only manking a sad $35 a week ecept i get xrta work often. soon b making more. how much 4 insurance per moth on l or r licence? and im small and im only 60 kgs might grow....... i think

[Dafe]

Sorry to hear about the can. When did this happen?

That corner is a crap one. Amazing an oncoming car could have stopped for you. They normally hoon down there and with that corner being blind they usually need a fairly good stopping distance.

But coming uphill??? You can sure get a good runup on that straight and end up overcooking the corner easily.
I know the corner very well. Fark, you sure you wasn't going too fast?

So you've been aquainted with "Middle Harbor" now then.

The owners of that house are pretty easy going. You didn't get attacked by the four legged fury slipper did you?

[Jamezo]

I've been told that the bike will probably be auctioned off, I'm very keen to bid on it myself too... IF I have money at the time :P. Will find out what happens to it when I can.

Oh also, Jamezo: did you happen to take a comp102 paper last semester?

Yep. And 103 now. Not that I'm an IT geek or anything....just a professional interest.

[Renegade]

I feel for you, i dropped my new gt250r aswell, some guy did a u-turn in front of me, at night, without his headlights on and skitlled me across the road, glad i had the body armour on, still waiting to get my baby back from the shop, hangin for a ride.