Motorbike accident repairs issue

[Berries]

You're a dick. Although I'd certainly appreciate if you stayed the fuck away from me, retard. Keep a better following distance cause it sounds like the accident is of your own doing.

Your KB training is now complete young Luke.

[BMWST?]

Following trailers ....?

why would you want to do that on a motorbike...?

at times i am in a line of traffic in a 50 k hour area,and i also have occasion to observe the behaviour of other road users from the safety of my cage.i am slo quite happy at less than subsonic speeds on the open road.I rarely ,as you stated follow trailers on the open road

[nzspokes]

I had a collision with a woman who turned suddenly without indicating last week, luckily I was going really slow
But it left the front forks of my motorbike slightly bent, the bike was unridable, so i took it into the shop and that was it

The motorbike repair place was in Glen Innis, a small motorcycle repair shop
2 days later the guy seemed to have just bent it back into place, replaced the oil and welded it

He's charging 480 chocolate kisses,

- now here's where it gets interesting
I really just don't believe that it's worth that much, I could've just ordered some new forks and put it on myself very easily, but the guy assured me before he took it in, it wouldn't be that much...

problem
- I'm unsure that the woman who run over the front of the bike will pay for it, even though it was her fault for not indicating
- The guys is over charging, so in the event that the woman will not pay for it, I do not want to pay this much to the mechanic
I believe it's unfair to charge that much for such an easy job that he's claiming was so hard

- best case scenario, the woman pulls her head in and pays the job with her insurance, and also maybe the guy pays a bet less
- worst case scenario (what I think will happen) is she says nothing, it turns in a dispute that I can't be fucked with, so I end up paying for the whole lot and at the price he wants


any tips how I can turn this around in my favour?
cheerssssssssss

So how do you feel this thread worked out for you?

[Mushu]

So how do you feel this thread worked out for you?

I think he disappeared when he realized no one was going to give the reply he was looking for

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[Kelz]

Many many years ago I worked as a bike mechanic. At Saunders Motorcycle Engineering we used to straighten forks. Usually no big deal as long as they're not creased. It can take a few attempts to get them perfect though. A press, lead blocks, a surface plate, v blocks and a DTI. Thats a bit of an investment in gear. Add the mechanics skill and time to disassemble then reassemble forks, plus the forks off then on the bike, plus oil, and the time to do the weld, and wire and gas for that aren't free ( I know this cause now I work as a fitter/welder) , plus his investment in the welding machine, and all his other overheads and I don't think $480 (and 15% of that is GST) is too unreasonable.

[Flip]

IMHO $480 seems abit on the light side. By the time you pull the front end off, take the fork apart, straighten and reassemble, all in less than 4 hours..... sounds like a bargin.

You asked the guy to do the work, you pay the bill. COD cough up or die.

Whats your excess? I bet its more than $500?

[FROSTY:Me]

everyone's going 50 which is fine
she's quite far on the right side of the single lane and all of a sudden pulls into a driveway
the only thing I could do was dodge left and break
I hit her side door going about 10km/h while trying to make a 90 degree turn left into the same driveway she is
she didn't indicate, simple as that, didn't even lead up to it,

YOU hit her. Therefore failed to maintain correct following distance. YOU are at fault. Keep riding like that and you will end up another statistic.

As for what the mechanic charged Pay him you owe him the money

[sharp2183]

This is fuckin funny. She was probably in the far right of the lane so that when she turned left she would be able to make it into the driveway without having the trailer go over the curb. It sounds easy, and usually is, but still is sometimes the only way to make it into the driveway. (Source - commercial truck/trailer driver, and horse owner).

You decide to hang on the left of the lane, nice and close. She indicates with a trailer that doesn't have a good connection on the electrical coupling (look around, lots of trailers in that scenario), and you don't see it. You hit her. Your fault.

$480 incl GST for dismantling, repairing and reassembling forks with new oil. That's probably more than fair.

[danchop]

ill go against the trend,her fault.make sure your indicators work before you take a horsefloat out for a ride.
without indictors going,i along with others would probably start to undertake on the left,because youd think she was moving over to turn right

[Oscar]

ill go against the trend,her fault.make sure your indicators work before you take a horsefloat out for a ride.
without indictors going,i along with others would probably start to undertake on the left,because youd think she was moving over to turn right

The Cops attitude is that you can't rely on indicators, and that you must be able to stop in half the given distance.
I'm guessing that they would say chummy's at fault.

[danchop]

The Cops attitude is that you can't rely on indicators, and that you must be able to stop in half the given distance.
I'm guessing that they would say chummy's at fault.

cool im off to smash all my indicators off,cause they make my bike look fucking ugly

[Oscar]

cool im off to smash all my indicators off,cause they make my bike look fucking ugly

Go for your life.
Motorists don't see 'em anyway.

[Berries]

ill go against the trend,her fault.make sure your indicators work before you take a horsefloat out for a ride.

Perhaps the bulb blew five minutes previously?

without indictors going,i along with others would probably start to undertake on the left,because youd think she was moving over to turn right

Quite possibly, but there should be a few alarm bells going.

Towing a trailer so probably no lights, brakes, indicators or otherwise? Tick.
Towing a horse float so thinking more of the horse than any one else? Tick.
Towing a horse float so likely to turn slowly and wide? Tick.
100m previously had cut someone off? Tick.
You are on a bike so have probably not been seen? Tick.
If the driver uses the mirrors they won't see past the horse float anyway? Tick.
Woman driver? Tick.

[Ocean1]

there should be a few alarm bells going.

Tick.
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Tick.

[scumdog]

ill go against the trend,her fault.make sure your indicators work before you take a horsefloat out for a ride.
without indictors going,i along with others would probably start to undertake on the left,because youd think she was moving over to turn right

"because youd THINK she was moving over to turn right"

That THINK can get you dead.

Ya gotta KNOW!