Teaching my flatmate how to ride.... she binned

[avgas]

Leave all broken stuff on that doesn't need urgent replacing, and tell her she can pay you back after she has finished 5 more lessons.
When she has finished enough lessons to sit her basic handling then she can pay you back and you will get the bike fixed, and she will get her license.

[mstriumph]

sorry about your bike - that sucks

my 2c ............if i broke someone's anything, i'd feel i had to fix it ......... wouldn't feel right about it if i didn't - and certainly wouldn't feel i could ask to borrow it again

you might be doing her a favour by letting her fix it, as offered?

[Macktheknife]

Good manners says if she borrowed it to practice on, she pays for the damage.
If you were teaching her to ride, as you first posted, then I would say 50/50.

Good luck getting it sorted though.

[fireball]

yeah we were talking about it today at work (we work together in a 3m by 5m box) and we have concluded to go get a quote to see how much its going to cost to fix and if its alot (over a grand) she will pay that price towards me getting a new bike!

i felt bad, she felt bad, but we both felt better after a few drinks! looking at my bike hurt less when i was drunk!

[doc]

yeah we were talking about it today at work (we work together in a 3m by 5m box) and we have concluded to go get a quote to see how much its going to cost to fix and if its alot (over a grand) she will pay that price towards me getting a new bike!

i felt bad, she felt bad, but we both felt better after a few drinks! looking at my bike hurt less when i was drunk!

So how much is it going to cost you to get a leg over "You know what I mean"

[Blondini]

Poor FXR..If I crashed or damaged ANYTHING of anyones I would replace it..

[fireball]

Poor FXR..If I crashed or damaged ANYTHING of anyones I would replace it..

now your fxr is the better of 2 evils

[klingon]

yeah we were talking about it today at work (we work together in a 3m by 5m box) and we have concluded to go get a quote to see how much its going to cost to fix and if its alot (over a grand) she will pay that price towards me getting a new bike!

i felt bad, she felt bad, but we both felt better after a few drinks! looking at my bike hurt less when i was drunk!

She's your flatmate and you also work together in a 3m x 5m box and you also lent her your bike to practise on?! You really are close! The most important thing here is to keep your friendship intact!!

[LilSel]

You've got mine for as long as it takes to get fxxr fixed/replaced
(just have to come pillion with me when I wanna ride!)

(no lessons for flattie on my baby tho lol!)

[90s]

Here's my 2 cents then:

First I take it that she binned your bike and not her own.

Is it fair to make her pay for that?

I would say no.

As an inexperienced rider should you be teaching others to ride in any case? If so, this is on a 'your risk' basis. Unless you have insurance to cover for learners to ride on your bike (which you will not have) then insurance cover is out too (oh - there is always fraud if you are comhrehensive - but I would not go there ... )

The one exception to you taking full responsibility for you to lend your bike to someone without the skills, experience etc. to handle it would be this:

In advance you had a frank discussion outlining that any damage would be at their expense.

If this conversation did not happen (except maybe inside your head) then its your issue and you need to deal with it.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but if this came up before me for arbitration this is the way it would go.

[fireball]

cheers for all your input...

bike is in at colemans getting quoted up will know later this week how the cost is going to go....

watch this space...

[breakaway]

Places like that will quote you over $9000 to fix, because they will use brand new genuine parts. What you need to do is ring wreckers, look on trademe etc, and you will get it back the way it was for under $300. I was quite surprised at how cheap parts were when I lowsided my bike off a bank and had to replace the screen, rear panels, subframe, etc.

I had to replace the following:

Speedo cable $20
Seat Latch: $30
Tail Piece: $30
Postage: $5

Rear Panels (Gold): $50
Subframe: $20
Tail Light: $20
Postage: $12

Screen: $35 incl shipping

So total that's $222.

[Mole_C]

Just get her to pay for a pair of after market mirrors and clutch ($100 all up), bend the gear lever back and get her to throw u a bit for the devaluation of fairings. They don't look that bad anyway

[HungusMaximist]

The question is, how did she bin?

What caused it exactly?

[fireball]

The question is, how did she bin?

What caused it exactly?

from what i understand she was going down the road (gentle downhill slope) was doing about 50 to 60 kmph went to take a left turn into another road and hit a raised bit of seal got a fright and jammed on the front break

just bad luck i guess