Filtering - broken mirror

[scumdog]

ditch the rego plate...or at least put a false one on.
Ya see, there's a solution to every problem

Ahhh, the old '20-20 Hindsight Brigade' - they're never wrong eh!

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Hi
i have just received a letter from AMI stating that they have a claim for a wing mirror from a car that supposly i hit when going down the gorge last week....
They are asking if the bike was insured and my name,etc...


I dont recall hitting any wing mirrors "very" hard last week.. and there is no damage on my bike....


What if i deny hitting the car.. well actually i dont remember hitting the car..
anyone had this experience before and what was their outcome.?

Thanks.

Sounds like you prob hit it eh!
Fes up and pay up its what your insurance is for.
Next time if in doubt about the gap wait a second or two and save youself some grief!

[vgcspares]

- a mirror can be expensive.
- and if you have insurance you can't admit liability. It can void your insurance claim.
Cheers

just want to offer confirmation that a door mirror could easily cost from $1000 up (saw one for $3,500 the other day)

and to debunk the second point - admitting liability (despite what it might say in the policy) is highly unlikely to void any claim provided you don't attempt to commit your insurance company to a specific course of action

[Tank]

This thread is quite different from the other thread about someone hitting a number of mirrors on their bike. In the other thread there were quite a lot of people defending the mirror-hitter.

The only difference I see is that this thread was started by a male and the other by a female.

Its not always the case - here is a thread about someone wanting to teach people a lesson by kicking their doors in (as opposed to mirrors - but close enough)

How to kick a door in thread

Okies, with all the stupid antics happening to bikers from non-el-thinko cagers etc, I think a useful skill to have would be "How to put a good boot-sized dent in a car door while under way on a motorcyle."

I don't want to fucken EDUCATE them you dick, I want to DENT THEIR FUCKEN DOOR !! GEEZ!

EDUCATING is for fucken TEACHERS! Do I look like a fucken TEACHER ?? Nooooooo!

DB

There is very little sympathy for anyone (regardless of sex) who seems to want to go out and do this deliberately.

[Zoolander]

Just man up you pussy. You'd be pissed off if a car scratched your bike and the driver didn't want to know about it.

[Squiggles]

Ya'all suck if you hit mirrors regularly. i think i've only touched one in the last 4 years, and that was while rolling my bike (footpower)

[rphenix]

So have you done the obvious and checked your mirrors for new scratch marks? Also if you did do it fess up to it but do that through your insurance as you cant admit liability directly if you read your insurance clauses. Last thing we need is more cagers who see a filtering bike approaching and decide to play "tinned sardine"

[MarkH]

I have only been riding for about 7 months now after a 20 year break. I started lane splitting on the way home from the bike dealers. I managed to tap someone's mirror 3 or 4 times in the first couple of months, not hard and I don't believe I did any damage. But in the last 5 months I have done plenty of lane splitting, sometimes without much room, without hitting anything at all. If you can't learn to judge the gap then you may end up in hospital wondering what happened! I would recommend getting the hang of splitting without any contact or don't do it!

[discotex]

You clearly fucked up one way or another given they got your rego and went to the trouble of filing a claim.

Next time split faster or don't hit the mirrors in the first place - depending on your morals.

[dipshit]

By his own admission he doesn't recall hitting any mirrors hard enough to cause damage.

He realises he clipped one/some that week. Just that he didn't think he hit them very hard.

If I had a nice car and some cock on a bike so much as even scratched a mirror... rest assured he would be hearing from my insurance company.