RE: So y'all just had to talk about batteries

["Retherford, Martin" <MRetherford@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,
	Case - is what we call the outside of the engine (i.e. engine case)
on this side of the water.  I imagine if nothing else got damaged on the top
(tank, frame) that the lower part of the bike got it all (engine, lower
plastics).
	35-40km/H at approx. 600 pounds (weight <-- we are behind the times
here) on water and potentially oil and only the lower scraping might have
ground quite a bit off of the case.  This requiring a new motor and thus
totaling the bike.
	Over here we can ask the insurance company if they want to keep it
and if not they will let you have it.  I think it is because they don't want
to pay for scraping it.  True tight ass'.

Martin

- -----Original Message-----
From: Leatherbiker [mailto:leatherbiker@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 9:22 AM
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: So y'all just had to talk about batteries


nobody has mentioned keeping the bike - assume it's going for
spares and xenotransplants to some lucky MZ owner.
I can ask - but isn't it legally the property of the insurance
co. now?
I do have a nice little souvenir - a glass headlamp cover that I
plan to turn into an ashtray.
Call me sentimental, but of all the bits that dropped off this
was the only one that was intact after the accident.
Maybe I should send the idea to Blue Peter ... here's one I
wrote off yesterday.

What is cut through? Dunno, mate!
As far as I could tell, the electrics were all still working, so
no major cabling was.
The external panelling on leftside and front is all knackered,
and most of the front and forks dented or smashed.
Not sure what you mean by the "case" though?

Tim
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Retherford, Martin <MRetherford@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 7:06 PM
Subject: RE: So y'all just had to talk about batteries


> Tim,
> Do you get to keep the bike?
> What is cut through?  I imagine the case has been ground down
pretty
> good.
>
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leatherbiker [mailto:leatherbiker@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 6:58 AM
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: So y'all just had to talk about batteries
>
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