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3 Bikes Caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:38 pm
by Nelso
A wall of water came down our street and pushed the garage doors in and flooded the garage. Leanne's ZX10, her track bike and my ZRX got flooded along with everything else in the garage. Luckily it stopped just as it reached the front door so inside the house stayed dry but the garage and yard are a mess. Unfortunately the exhaust on Leanne's 10 filled with water and the water level was as high as the exhaust port on the head so we think it may need a strip down.
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:38 pm
by Nelso
The bikes
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:39 pm
by Nelso
Some of the damage.
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:45 pm
by smithy5
As long as you both are ok
you can always update to brand new bikes later on if they get totalled
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:45 pm
by Jonno
ouch
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:49 pm
by Disco
Guy's that sux big time
.....Insurance should cover it yeah?....At least you are both ok
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:57 pm
by Nelso
Disco wrote:Guy's that sux big time
.....Insurance should cover it yeah?....At least you are both ok
Her bike is covered but we don't know about the house yet. The assessor is calling in the morning but we are assuming we should be covered since it was storm water that did the damage.
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:01 pm
by Bogan
Crack the sump plug, if there's water in there it will come out first. If there's water in the bores how easy are the plugs to pull out and crank it over a bit?
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:08 pm
by Cath
ah shit
Sorry to hear that mate. What a crapper.
Keep us updated about the outcome
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:23 pm
by dave#3
Bloody hell, they really did cop it hey. Poor buggers. Fingers crossed the insurance company comes to the party.
Re: 3 Bikes caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:33 pm
by tim
Bugga guys. Glad your house is dry.
Re: 3 Bikes Caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:36 pm
by Mel
oh what a shit, sorry to hear that guys
Re: 3 Bikes Caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:41 pm
by photomike666
Sorry to hear guys, hope it all sorts out OK.
Re: 3 Bikes Caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:59 pm
by matchan
Geez, that sucks mate, hope the bikes are ok.
Good luck with getting it cleaned up as well.
Cheers
Matt&Di
Re: 3 Bikes Caught in Wollongong Floods
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:22 pm
by mike-s
How long did the floods happen for? I'm just wondering as i could see that the vents under the house were under the waterline. I second the suggestion of just draining the sump and taking a peek.
As to how wet it was, I got caught up in some shitful rain on Friday and Saturday going down the coast and back and have no arguments about how freaking nuts it was getting. All i can say is it getting worse, damn.