Splat!

She was turning into a dead end road and was positioned quite a bit beyond the center line of the side road. I think she had got fed up with the traffic Que and decided to take an "alternative route". I don't remember seeing an indicator - first thing I knew I saw the front wheel turn and off she went. Yet she said when she first got out of the car (and whilst I was winded and on my knees) "I WAS indicating!"

Unfortunately by the time I had recovered from being winded, picked the bike up and moved to the side of the road everyone who saw the incident had moved along.

However I have checked my satnav logs and on the run up to the crash scene I was doing about 10mph, but for the last 124 feet i was doing an average of 6.4mph. I had time to get the front shocks compressed to about half before i ran out of talent - which means I splatted on her rear door at no more than a fast running pace.

Its a bit shocking how such a low speeder can hurt - maybe I'm just getting old ;)
 
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I told this before but i bring it up in every filtering thread:D
A couple weeks after passing my test i decided to filter through stationary traffic. I was going pretty slow about 10-13mph, when a car door swung open. I breaked easily enough, thankgod i was going slow. When the driver looked out the door at me and said "you can wait". I was shocked at the time couldnt believe he did it on purpose.
 
bakes0310 said:
I told this before but i bring it up in every filtering thread:D
A couple weeks after passing my test i decided to filter through stationary traffic. I was going pretty slow about 10-13mph, when a car door swung open. I breaked easily enough, thankgod i was going slow. When the driver looked out the door at me and said "you can wait". I was shocked at the time couldnt believe he did it on purpose.
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the only reason i could ever think to put carbon fibre knuckles on motorbike gloves is this.

either that or drive into his door slowly then shaft him through the courts for assault with weapon.

i would probably loose my **** and go for option 1 tho.
 
Oh man has this thread made me mad. I'm not even a biker and I want to go punching motorists after hearing about the sort of crap they pull. Purposefully moving over to close gaps, opening doors to stop you, what the actual ****? I don't want to live on this planet any more.
 
bakes0310 said:
I told this before but i bring it up in every filtering thread:D
A couple weeks after passing my test i decided to filter through stationary traffic. I was going pretty slow about 10-13mph, when a car door swung open. I breaked easily enough, thankgod i was going slow. When the driver looked out the door at me and said "you can wait". I was shocked at the time couldnt believe he did it on purpose.
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Seriously? What did you do? it would have been hard not to use his head to close his door again....:mad:
 
bakes0310 said:
I told this before but i bring it up in every filtering thread:D
A couple weeks after passing my test i decided to filter through stationary traffic. I was going pretty slow about 10-13mph, when a car door swung open. I breaked easily enough, thankgod i was going slow. When the driver looked out the door at me and said "you can wait". I was shocked at the time couldnt believe he did it on purpose.
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Probably would have just held the horn on. With his door wide open that would be seriously irritating for him.
 
Holy moly.....that's why my insurance wrote my er6f when I first had one, i thought it was barely damaged....hell if I could have put the headlight in a backpack I would have rode it home! Apparently they claim the fairings cost a small fortune to replace, so they just write them off.

I feel your pain :(
 
The bike has been classed a total loss by the insurance company. Gah. Waiting to hear what class of write off.

To top it off the solicitor is talking about 50/50's which frankly I am furious about.
 
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Bad luck there fella, bikes are replaceable, you ain't, chalk it down to bitter experience & don't let yourself dwell on it too much. :)

What bike was it btw?.
 
bakes0310 said:
I told this before but i bring it up in every filtering thread:D
A couple weeks after passing my test i decided to filter through stationary traffic. I was going pretty slow about 10-13mph, when a car door swung open. I breaked easily enough, thankgod i was going slow. When the driver looked out the door at me and said "you can wait". I was shocked at the time couldnt believe he did it on purpose.
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I had that happen to me once. I cannot post what my reaction was as I'm absolutely ashamed of it. However, there are some ***** in the world, and unfortunately you just have to take a deep breath dig deep and just concentrate on the rest of your journey.
 
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The bike has been classed a total loss by the insurance company. Gah. Waiting to hear what class of write off.

To top it off the solicitor is talking about 50/50's which frankly I am furious about.
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Damn. :(

Problem is they always see filtering as a liability manoeuvre :( It's rubbish, and one of the reasons I'm less inclined to get back to a bike.

Hope it's sorted out with minimal costs.
 
Lt_Red said:
The bike has been classed a total loss by the insurance company. Gah. Waiting to hear what class of write off.

To top it off the solicitor is talking about 50/50's which frankly I am furious about.
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Every insurance company seems to be trying this at the moment, a friend was taken out and even though the police has a signed statement from the other party admitting liability his OWN insurance company was suggesting 50/50! it's a joke.
 
Turns out I have two broken ribs and an asymmetric ribcage. Doctor said I was OK 4 weeks ago the git. In to physio for 6 weeks then. The Insurance company have not paid up for the write off yet - even tho I'm fully comprehensive. They should cough up and argue it out later I reckon.
 
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