06-09-24, 01:30 PM
I'm so glad I recalled seeing this thread, as hearing that company mentioned while discussing my claim rang a bell. I read up on some reviews and looked at their requirements for collecting my Striple and transporting it to Surrey from South Derbyshire. They require my national insurance number, and a photo/scan of both sides of my licence, if I chose not to pursue the claim with them, then I almost immediately incur storage charges and have to arrange or fetch the bike bike from Surrey. I also noted that they sell used parts and written off bikes. So i decided not to pursue the deal with them and have opted for an independent inspection and report, and I will find someone local to carry out the repair work. Thanks to Bikerdude for posting the original thread on this.
This all stems from my off on Monday evening while riding back from an evening session at Donington. All ok until 7pm then a torrential downpour that lasted for half an hour. When it stopped, I decide to call it a day and ride home the seven miles or so. As I left a small roundabout to climb towards the A50 junction, where the camber of the roundabout and the downward slope from the access road meet was full of slime and gravel that had been washed down the slope in the downpour. I lost the rear in a lowside. Fortunately, the following vehicle was the on duty ambulance from Donington, so no wait for the NHS one. As I couldn't move, the leathers were promptly sliced off me. Fortunately, no broken bones, but badly knocked about and bruised down the right side, can't move shoulder or leg very well at all yet. The back of the leathers were covered in slime.
My youngest and her friend retrieved the bike for me and brought it back home, for which I am very grateful. I've had a chance (while the wife was out) to go over the machine and photographed all of the damage that I can see, and I have been able to fire the bike up and run it though all of the gears, so I am very hopeful that I will get it back.
I would add that If any of you need to go to A&E anywhere, for fucks sake question what the tablets they are giving you are. Inevitably, they brought painkillers from the start, and later tried to get me up and moving, but each time I dizzied and almost passed out, the last time my blood pressure so dangerously low as to cause serious concern ,and the intrevenous feed of fluids to get the pressure and heartrate back up for dangerously low. After 16 hours or so of this, the nurse brought another dose of medication and I questioned why here there were two different types of painkillers. She replied that the big white ones were Metformin for my Diabetes. Which I have never had. I had to lose my rag a little to get that point over, but it caused some consternation amongst the staff,as some poor sod didn't get his Metformin for 16 hours or so. I'm just hoping there are no long term impacts from that cockup.
This all stems from my off on Monday evening while riding back from an evening session at Donington. All ok until 7pm then a torrential downpour that lasted for half an hour. When it stopped, I decide to call it a day and ride home the seven miles or so. As I left a small roundabout to climb towards the A50 junction, where the camber of the roundabout and the downward slope from the access road meet was full of slime and gravel that had been washed down the slope in the downpour. I lost the rear in a lowside. Fortunately, the following vehicle was the on duty ambulance from Donington, so no wait for the NHS one. As I couldn't move, the leathers were promptly sliced off me. Fortunately, no broken bones, but badly knocked about and bruised down the right side, can't move shoulder or leg very well at all yet. The back of the leathers were covered in slime.
My youngest and her friend retrieved the bike for me and brought it back home, for which I am very grateful. I've had a chance (while the wife was out) to go over the machine and photographed all of the damage that I can see, and I have been able to fire the bike up and run it though all of the gears, so I am very hopeful that I will get it back.
I would add that If any of you need to go to A&E anywhere, for fucks sake question what the tablets they are giving you are. Inevitably, they brought painkillers from the start, and later tried to get me up and moving, but each time I dizzied and almost passed out, the last time my blood pressure so dangerously low as to cause serious concern ,and the intrevenous feed of fluids to get the pressure and heartrate back up for dangerously low. After 16 hours or so of this, the nurse brought another dose of medication and I questioned why here there were two different types of painkillers. She replied that the big white ones were Metformin for my Diabetes. Which I have never had. I had to lose my rag a little to get that point over, but it caused some consternation amongst the staff,as some poor sod didn't get his Metformin for 16 hours or so. I'm just hoping there are no long term impacts from that cockup.