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Lightcycle said:
That is the worst.

My buddy saw someone die in *front* of him. Says he can't ever erase that image from his mind. Made him think long and hard about swinging a leg over ever.
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My uncle sadly lost a coworker in BC. Coworker was from overseas and left a rest stop a few minutes later than the rest. He was hustling to catch up. Unfortunately, home country was drive on the left. Bike doesn't give you an obvious reminder like a cage would. Winding roads, pace and the first oncoming vehicle and it was over quickly.
 
GreyGhost said:
My uncle sadly lost a coworker in BC. Coworker was from overseas and left a rest stop a few minutes later than the rest. He was hustling to catch up. Unfortunately, home country was drive on the left. Bike doesn't give you an obvious reminder like a cage would. Winding roads, pace and the first oncoming vehicle and it was over quickly.
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If you had said "she" instead of "he", then that is *exactly* what happened to a rider just a few minutes outside our house.

A group of riders had stopped at a rest stop on the highway. When they pulled out, she was last out and the road curves right after the rest stop exit. She didn't make the curve, crossed the line and went head-first into a car in opposing traffic. Happened just last summer.

BC girl, so it was target fixation, not drive-on-left.

RIP.
 
Sorry to hear @monkeyfarm. I had a mishap in Pennsylvania last year and did similar damage to mine. No police, ambulance, or fire (I was mostly worried about that last one), and she fired up and got me home no problem. Any crash you can walk away from is a good one, and any one you can ride home from is even better.

As for fixing you bike, it doesn't look too bad. I think the mirror is the only part that actually needs to be replaced to function properly. The shifter you should be able to (carefully) bend back. And without joking, the rest might just buff out. Or there's always the blacked out look:

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Damn dude! Glad you are in one piece; and no need to the cut out a piece of your butt and stitch it onto somewhere else, right? I've been there and got the scars. On the bright side, it's a good excuse for a new bike...
 
GreyGhost said:
Glad you're ok.

I'm assuming insurance isn't going to know about this hiccup and no first responders attended?

I don't think I would pay that much to fix it. Fix the parts that need fixed (eg the mirror stalk) and leave cosmetics alone. A running bike with bruises that can be safetied won't be worth a hell of a lot less than the bike mint (imo, although it will be harder to sell). If it eventually ends up in a future insurance claim for a future incident, all the money on repairs was basically lit on fire as odds are it will be a full write-off in any low-value bike crash (and even many high-value bike crashes).

I have no idea how much your insurance is. If you think you will be off for a while, it is a tossup between cancelling to stop the bleeding and the hit that may come from non-continuous coverage. The more you are paying now for the bike you won't ride much, the more the needle swings towards cancelling and getting insurance when you want to hit the road again. If you are going to cancel, sooner is better than later as this is peak $/day season.
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We all like our vehicles to be prefect but that isn't life. I had a small but expensive dent put into the cage and the $4000 repair comes from somewhere, eventually returning on an insurance boomerang. I made the dent less noticeable for $100. Two months later I see another parking lot ding two feet further along the car. That would be another couple of thou. Sometimes one learns to live with the patina.

Dent patina can actually help. A buddy drove a monster Chrysler ages ago and the front end was all smashed up. When he got into one of those "Chicken" things where someone didn't want to let someone else into traffic the other driver would take a look at the front of his car, realize he had nothing to lose and let him in. I'm not sure how that would work with a bike.

If cancelling insurance, a friend and retired insurance rep said to get listed on someone else's policy even if they never let you ride the bike. It shows continuous coverage for when you get back in the saddle. Obviously your rating would have to be good enough to keep his rates the same.
 
nobbie48 said:
If cancelling insurance, a friend and retired insurance rep said to get listed on someone else's policy even if they never let you ride the bike. It shows continuous coverage for when you get back in the saddle. Obviously your rating would have to be good enough to keep his rates the same.
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For car policies, if the additional driver doesn't have their own car policy in their name, there's a surcharge. They don't do the same for motorcycle policies?
 
Chicks dig scars.

Seriously that tank may pop out some what with compressed air. A cheap bar end mirror replaces the broken stalk and the rest seems cosmetic. Pay little heed to the Squeeze and the doc, that's the standard boiler plate response.
 
@monkeyfarm
Glad you are OK to tell the story. I know the feelings that you are going through, they suck. Been there done that. Luckily I was less physically scarred but my ego took a beating. Bike damage was minimal

Don't worry about the bike too much (and even the incident) it will all eventually mend itself out.
If you really love the bike, than try to repair it and keep it. If you are not in love with it, this might just be the tipping point to let it go and find your next dream bike (Don't forget to start a new thread looking for new bike advice. lol)

I recently had some luck with Home - NCK Cycle for parts on a different bike for my FIL. Their prices seemed very reasonable for used parts.

Just as @mimico_polak offered, I also have the same trailer with wheel chock and ramps. If you need it, I would be happy to help. I'm in Milton but usually distance to me is not an issue.

Get well soon.
 
Glad to hear you are not too hurt and the bike isn't too bad either. I have 2000 VZ800 as well which I never ride, and those bikes aren't too hard to find parts for. Hope you can get it fixed up when the time is right.
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