Re: 5K miles on the tires, 20' on the bodywork...

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxx>]

At 01:56 AM 6/26/99 -0700, Rick Damiani wrote:
>... so I leave the jacket in the bag and set off.

Ooo, I know where this one is going already.  I can't look....

>While conducting this impromptu accident investigation, I noticed a pair of
>motorcycle policemen drive by and take a look at me standing next to the
>scraped up bike (the plastic is white, so the scratches really stand out)
>with my bloody elbow and favoring my right foot. Great! I thought. I'll get
>an accident report that mentions the oil and I'll likely not be getting
>charged extra on the insurance for the spill. Then they speed back up and
>drove off. I guess they had a pressing engagement with a doughnut or a speed
>trap and couldn't stop for a traffic accident.

They may have done you a favor.  Slowed down to check that you were OK, then 
left.  Had they stopped, they would have *had* to write up a report, perhaps 
given you a ticket (too fast for conditions covers this one, the 'condition' 
being the oil), and your insurance would have gone up.  One thing I didn't 
want when I dropped mine was to have any LEOs show up.  I consider insurance 
to be for major things, like theft or major damage, and I didn't make any 
claim on mine for the $775 I put into repairs.  I would have ended up paying
well over that to get back my 'six-year no-claims' discount.  Seeing that you
needed no assistance, what they did was give you the choice to file a claim 
or not.

>Damage to the bike: Damaged the right-side upper (ground off a corner),
>middle (extensive scratching and ground-off plastic) and lower (filed off an
>edge) body panels, dinged up the right mirror housing, and badly scratched
>the right side saddlebag. I also broke the Throttlemister off, tweaked the
>right clip-on [2], broke the front brake lever in half, bent the rear brake
>lever, bent up the attachment point on the saddlebag [3] and dinged both the
>muffler *and* the right side fork lower. Bike was still ride able as long as
>you didn't bother with the rear brake too much.

Bad bit of luck on the fairing lower (belly pan), clip-on, and fork.  Mine 
didn't hit.  The rest sounds right.  Round number prices: $75 mirror, $75 rear 
brake lever, $45 front brake lever, $300 fairing, $200 nacelle.  Dunno the 
rest.  Also, don't forget to have them get the two brackets for the upper side 
of the fairing, which collapse under the weight of the bike.  You can tell 
because the back of the top edge of the fairing should be against the frame 
now.  You can remove the rear bracket, straighten it, and replace it for now, 
while waiting for the body parts, so that the fairing doesn't rub on the frame 
and damage the powder coating.  No need to take off the fairing to get this 
one off, you can do it through the opening on the back side of the fairing.

>Damage to Rick: Sore ankle and knee and a 3"x 2" scrape on my right forearm
>right at the elbow that hardly bled at all. Put a small hole in the knee of
>my jeans, but didn't hurt my shirt, gloves or boots at all. I *did* manage
>to avoid breaking anything this time despite landing on my other shoulder,
>so I'll not be getting matching metal plates from this one.

Glad to hear you're OK!  That scrape on the arm will hurt like anything for a
couple of weeks.  Get a can of Lanacane analgesic (pain-killer) spray; works 
wonders on road rash.


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