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Total Loss...
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Engineer called on behalf of NIG just now.
The Bandit has been written off due to about a sugarlump-sized corner
piece of the cylinder head cover being ground off in the spill.
He said the high mileage (7700 as opposed to 2000) means it's book
value is =A33300. Whether that takes into account the =A3250 alarm I do
not know.
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Why not see how much the insurance co would be prepared to sell the=20
salvage back to you for, then buy and fir a new cylinder head cover,=20
which isn't going to be hugely expensive in reality.
might be the cheapest way out.
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After the HP company have been paid off by the Ins Co, I don't think
I'll be getting any substantial monies. I'm not really bothered with
buying it back out of my own pocket and having the hassle of putting
it back together. I'd rather spend a bit more on a working bike. That
crashes better.
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When I threw my faired Bandit up the road at 50 all that was broken as a
result of the crash was the front brake lever and plastic handguard. The
engine bars saved the cases and for some unknown reason the fairing was
absolutely undamaged, didn't even scratch the indicator. I had to repair
the mirror mounting but you'll be hard pushed to tell the mirror was
affected. There are some minor scratches here and there, but this bike
has been horizontal so many times it was difficult to tell which ones
were new.
Bandits are the ultimate crashing weapon.
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I dropped mine getting it out of the garage on Monday. In fact drop is
too strong a word. It got away from me, to the right. I couldn't hold
it but it was never under a full g of acceleration.
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ur.
Mine's been over twice now since I bought it, once each side - never=20
broken a footrest hanger, just scratched the bottom of the peg. What you=20
need to do is grind the pegs through a few corners, that way there's=20
less to touch down and break.
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When did Paul Carmichael come over to take that picture?
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It's that dashed cameraphone on my old Nokia 6230, the later 6230i I now
have has a much better camera.
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:-)
Small depth of field is sometimes a good thing...
I've just got my first photographic (paid) assignment... I'm rather
chuffed as it's on the HMS Belfast.
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Coo - that sounds a bit good.
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RH footpeg hanger immediately broke. £60 for a new one plus £20 labour.
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You wanna GL1500, you do. More crashproof than some Suzuki rubbish.
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Not *ideal* for my daily journey, though.
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Yes, but you can ride, I just go from a to b.
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Anyone can ride, just takes a bit of practice.
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Practice I have lots of, what I need more of is training :)
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Partly, but since I didn't have 15 minutes available between the
breakage and the next time I really needed to get to work, plus they
waived the £40 delivery charge, I really don't give a monkeys.
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£40 delivery charge? For what, a £60 part?
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No. The bike. Home. I didn't have time to get on a bus into town to go
and get it.
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It certainly gave me >30 mins of time to do something else, so I am in
profit.
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You *paid* someone to replace a footpeg hanger?
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Yes. It's terribly simple. They had the bike to make sure nothing else
was broken. They were around to get next day delivery of the part, they
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"To make sure nothing else was broken"???
Do you not have eyes?
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Not that can see into bits of brake linkages, no. Yes I probably could
have seen that nothing else was bust, but it still wouldn't have solved
the time issue.
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also had the time to actually fit the part between Monday am and
Wednesday pm.
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My footpeg hanger cost me £30 from banditspares.com, + £5 delivery.
Oh, and I fitted it myself
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I'm glad you had the time :)
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It took 3 minutes.
I'm sure you've got three minutes spare within 24 hours.
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I am surprised that it took that little TBH there seemed to be rather
more allen keys and bolts, plus removing the footpeg. Also, it would
need to be '3 minutes' in daylight ;)
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It's on hire purchase, so they'll get the payout, and I'll get
whatever's left. So I should in theory get a bit back. Though that's
offset by my =A3350 excess.
Arse.
So that's cost me about =A31000 since I bought it, with nothing to show
except 7700 miles of fun riding.
I'd better get the base of my Garmin's RAM mount back. The driver who
collected the bike said he'd put it to one side when he got back to
P&H. Here's hoping he did...
What on earth should I get next? I'm tempted by an MZ Black Panther
Baghira, or WC's XT660X. At least they'll crash better than a Bindit.
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