Carole Nash killed my motorcycle

ER-5 engine seized on the way to work this morning, I pushed it half a
mile up the road to Tesco and left it in the car park, got a lift to
work for 09:00 start. Got lift from work back to Tesco at 17:00 and
called Carole Nash recovery at 17:15.

<cigarettes, phone calls, idle banter, walking around>

18:45 - Fuckwit Feeding Frenzy Recovery Services show up with a
flat-top CAR recovery van with four straps to secure the front and
rear wheels of the car. "We're not really set up for bikes, see."

In the space of twenty minutes the recovery firm have caused so much
damage I can hardly believe it.

Highlights:

They tried to secure the bike by leaning it over on one foot of the
centre stand.

They thought it would be best to transport the bike laying down
("We've done that before") until I objected as it's got three litres
of oil in the engine, 16 litres of petrol in the tank and whatever
amount of water in it.

They thought the left mirror was a mount point (now bent after my most
vocal of objections)

They both got on the truck and tried to move it around and nearly
dropped it off of the side while one of them grabbed the rear left
indicator and held the bike upright by it. (The plastic unit that
holds the rear signals and number plate is now broken.)

"We had a new Buell on here a couple of weeks ago, we went around a
corner and it fell off!" I told them to **** off, went away from them
to phone Carole Nash Recovery and informed them their recovery firm
were a shower of cunts.

In my absence they shuffled the bike into a sideways position and
leaned the tank against a wooden plank to try and secure it that way.
The tank now has five deep scratches on the left hand side and they've
also left a 6" long gash on the right hand side of the plastics
somehow.

They also put tried to strap the bike by its handlebar but instead of
using the material part of the strap they used the hook at the end and
have scraped the chrome off and knocked off the heated grip control.

I came back and after seeing what they'd done I make it very clear to
them that I did not want them to touch it anymore. They started to
tilt the back of the truck so I could wheel the bike off but it
started to move on the centre stand while it was up there and moved
about 4" backwards before I shouted at them to stop, climbed on the
truck (clothes and hands now covered in oil and grease from whatever
had been on the van before) and held it on the front brake.

Both of the tyres are now caked in black oil and grease as I assume a
few cars have exploded on the back before and when I wheeled it
backwards long oil marks were left on the car park from the wheels up
to where I parked it.

Carole Nash were called again and they apologised for sending a van
that wasn't fit for the recovery and made a note of the damage that
had been done to my bike. They ordered a new van which was the same
chap who recovered me from the Dover Ferry Terminal a few weeks ago
which worked perfectly. It arrived at 20:55.

A supervisor called me back and said they hadn't intended to
inconvenience me and that if I had any issues to take it up with
Fuckwit Feeding Frenzy Recovery Services and they'll leave their phone
number on my file.

I'm going to call Carole Nash Recovery back tomorrow and have a
scream. In fact, I may just call Carole Nash Claims and say "Hello, I
need to make a claim against a Third Party. Who? Carole Nash
Recovery."

The decent recovery bloke said I could easily claim for a resprayed
tank, new plastics, two new tyres, new handlebar, near rear number
plate/signal mounts and a pair of non-oily jeans but he suspects
they'll just write it off. All I want is a fucking engine.

 

<snip untold amount of fuckwit-related desctruction>

I guess the sentence "I need recovery....but its for a motorcycle" may seem
so obvious, but is of little concillation in hindsight.

 

<result>

 

No-one to blame but yourself.

The fucking thing shouldn't be on the road.
(and I'm not that sure about you, tbh)

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'^' RBR'06 Points: 75 Miles: 317

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, BGN belched forth and ejected the following:

<Snip>

Sue the cunts.

 

Mate, what's a working email address for you? drop us one at sean (dot)
hamerton (at) gmail (dot) com would ya?

 

I wasn't trying to blame anyone else for the engine problem - the main
point of the post was a bodged job by a recovery firm but you've
missed it.

The government think it's fine to be on the road and have even given
it an MOT certiface as proof.

The DSA don't seem to mind me being on the road having given me a test
pass twice for a motorcycle.

We all make mistakes.

 

If you're in line for another one, my spare NS400 is still on offer.....

Dave

 

Carole Nash are well aware of the two wheeled configuration of my mode
of transport which was confirmed to them by my phone call earlier on
in the day for recovery.

 

I thought it was already due to be written-off by his mum's insco.

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`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
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SD wrote

AOL.

 

No - they didn't write it off. They fixed what she broke.

 

Bugger. Better luck thi time, eh?

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\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Sean Hamerton belched forth and ejected the
following:

I've got loads. Use the one in the headers if you have to but remove the
REVOVE bit first.

I'd use the (dot) one you said, but frankly, I'm so pissed I haven't got
afucking clue how to o it

 

I think I need to get away from bikes where the engine needs
rebuilding every 200 miles.

 

You could add another 0 to the end of that number before it'd need pistons,
rings, barrels etc etc etc.. Of course the ride from here to there
would take up over a quarter of that straight away (and at least 20 gallons
of unleaded and a tank of 2-stroke oil...)

Dave

 

Along the lines of incompetence as Max and Paddys "'AN HOUR, I'm only across
the road, that's me waving" was it.

 

If you couldn't afford to keep the FZR, you *definitely* can't afford an
NS....

20mpg do you sir? On a long run.
35:1 (I think) 2-stroke at £10 a litre.
*its_a_two_stroke*
etc etc etc

But If you could be arsed to get down here to pick it up then it could
change hands for a reasonable sum..... But only could.

Dave

 

As a matter of morbid interest, have you taken up the engine seizures with
the garage who have allegedly been servicing it?

Martin.

 

Surely that's not possible.