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Well what a month,was riding home from work on the 29th Nov when a nice intelligent (huh!) lady did a U-Turn straight into me,down i go,head first into the road.K.O.came to and luckily one of the witnesses was a nurse and stayed talking with me until the Ambos arrived.Can't say enough how much difference this made,definitely kept me with it untill Ambos arrived,and the Ambos were absolutely awesome.Off to Hospital for checks and stayed in for observation.
After that i had a Nightmare as i'm only third party fire and theft insured,so had to chase her down(Police attended and fined her Failure to Give way)
She was driving her partners car who is a car salesman and car is registered to his company,took days of phoning to get insurance details,then threats of legal action to get them to file a claim,all while getting the run around from them (oh you have to get the bike out of tow centre and get 2 quotes and write an official claim)all while in bed with thumping headache and dodgy knee...anyway after 3 weeks of headaches and things going to be done and then being told no thats not correct (different person each time i phoned..lets call them mooncorp for legal reasons)i finally have a payout and have learned
1. Always have FULL INSURANCE
2. Idiots share our roads
3. Mooncorp NEVER ring you back or keep you up to date
4. It pays to be Stubborn
5. Always have FULL INSURANCE
6. I'm never insuring with said insurance company
7. KBC VR1 Helmets are very good
8. Always have FULL INSURANCE

Farewell little Kawasaki,you will be missed......now to start saving for my next bike.

i thought this was part 2 of strika's - "blow jobs for dummy's" post:)

sorry to hear about the accident mate but good to see ur keen to get on a new bike ASAP.

an 05 zx10 is a good step up from the zx600f

Bugger dude. Glad to hear you're still with us, bikes are replaceable. So, what's next?

OOPS,didn't think about that title...always been a fan of the 04/05 ZX10R,could take about 3months of saving though for a decent bike.Being grounded is not good!People die in car crashes to so thats no barrier to jumping back on a bike,she was just an idiot and there was nothing i could have done different to stop the accident from happening.
By the way anyone riding around with a KBC helmet on,you can now feel protected after my crash test.

Damm

Glad to hear you're ok

QLDZX6R wrote:Well what a month,was riding home from work on the 29th Nov when a nice intelligent (huh!) lady did a U-Turn straight into me,down i go.

mate
glad to hear you are ok
and
I sympathise coz bitumen surfing does no-one any good
'bout 10 years ago...Boxing Day off to the the shops to get some bread when a clown in a cage
without indicating does a u-turn..next to a no-uturn sign and takes me out
bike..badly damaged but is repaired
me...pharked knee (plus a helmet leather jacket and jeans..stuffed)
Cops and ambos do the right thing by me..the surgeon worked on the knee
but unfortunately...my knee has learnt to tell the weather

and yes..have insurance

cheers

Smitty

QLDZX6R wrote:3. Mooncorp NEVER ring you back

Who????

aardvark wrote:

QLDZX6R wrote:3. Mooncorp NEVER ring you back

Who????

Suncorp I think

http://www.suncorp.com.au/suncorp/perso ... fault.aspx

Mick

Glad to hear it worked out relatively ok, in that at least you're alive to talk about, bike is obviously farked though

Sound like you are a master of the HTFU !!

I like it.

Mate all the best, and some good advice dished out there to boot.

just got it, mooncorp ...sound like a pac of carnts.

1) glad to hear it got sorted
2) i have a vr2, close enough a model to make me feel good about having it
3) ive never had an insurance co chase me up, unless it was about money i owed them, i ALWAYS have had to chase them about repairs/restitution.
4) hope you've healed up rather well.

took ya a month to tell us?? mate im offended..i thought we were family??

good luck with the healing... new bike huh?? zeds are fun...

shame abt the dipshit woman.. should go see her partner the car salesman... see how he likes it when he has a few claims and his insurance farks him round..

I have a KBC VR1, you must have had a fair whack to go KO?

glad its turned out ok in the end, looks like its a new bike for christmas so can't be all bad!

Matt