K down (again)

Me heading clockwise round M25 at 7.30pm, approaching J17 (M40). Traffic
stalled while Plod recover the damaged vehicles from a shunt.

Me filtering *very* slowly (like 10-15mph) as the gaps are narrow.

And Twatty in his green Saxo gets tired of sitting in it and decides to
go walkabout in the middle lane, and flings open his door. Bang.

That's the mirror, pannier frame and left-hand pannier then. Could be
worse.

OK, so he was apologetic and all that, and his girlfriend, after
consulting with her mobile, assured me that her Mum would pay for
everything. Huh?

Names and addreses etc exchanged, and I took some photos of the scene,
including nice clear ones of the car and Twatty.

And guess what? Twatty's phone number is "unrecognised". So it's all
going legal now.

Big thanks to the guy in the car behind who gave all his details as a
witness, stunned as he was at twatty's actions. Big **** You to Fat Chav
who refused, saying: "Not my problem, mate." Your kids were in the car
with you. If one of the shaven-headed little bastards gets knocked down
by a car, and you appeal for witnesses, I hope someone does the same to
you.

Well, I'm OK, and I see a visit to MotorWorks in my immediate future.

 

And you all laughed at me when the same thing happened to me on the M5 .....
Amazing how many twats decide to go walkabout when the traffic stops.
Thankfully you were not hurt, dont forget to charge him for a new helmet.

 

gloves, very expensive leather jacket and trousers.

I see work for beav in this. hope you are ok mate and incident has not
re activated old war wounds.

boxerboy
posted by pda and stylus

 

It appears to be the season for this sort of stupidity at the moment. I
blame the fact that the temperatures went past 17C recently.

Not that I'm a nasty and suspicious barsteward but that wouldn't by any
chance be because it's not his car and he wasn't quite on the
inswearance...

Oops. How careless of him.

If you find that they've got the very rare car-repellent panniers in
stock let me know, I could do with those as well. Oh, and the fact that
you're still in one piece is what counts IMHO.

 

Amazingly, I've been able to reassemble the pannier. The lid separated
entirely from the body, but now I see they're designed to in an impact.

Very, very clever. The hinges are nylon sliders on flanges, and in an
impact, the lid slides backwards off the body. It bears some scars on
the paint, but it's whole. I think a pair of unscarred new panniers
would look better, mind, as you can't get the colour-matched ones any
more.

So that leaves the mirror glass (£20 from MW) and the pannier bracket
(about £70 the pair). Small scuff on fairing panel. Mirror body
scratched to hell but intact.

Should a miracle happen and Twatty in the confusion just jotted his
phone number down (the address checks out as genuine, but whether it's
his or not....) I'll settle with him and his Mum for £400.

If it goes legal, then it'll be the full monty - new panniers, new
mirror including housing (£80), repaired fairing panel (£lots) and
pannier bracket. And I reckon that'll be £700

 

I *think* I found something like that with the top box on the RT. At
first I was rather pissed off that it had detached from the carrier but
after closer inspection it had survived OK apart from the scuffs and the
emblem that flew off. Just locked back on, job done.

I can see that happening with the phone number, given how the adrenalin
flows after an accident.

Don't forget that the mirror housing will likely need painting to match
the rest of the bike as paint fades when it ages. So 80 quid is likely
to be optimistic.

 

Oops a daisy. Nearly happened to me a few times; the edge of a door is a
fairly solid object and often elicits great vocal skills from me.

I'm with Timo. Sounds dodgy as ****.

See above.

Ah, there's always one, isn't there? Full of the joy of simply being
alive and a desire to help out his fellow man. He was possibly uninsured
too, or wasn't quite all kosher in some other way, and didn't want the
attention. Might just be a miserable git and/or hates bikes.

Clumsy sod.

 

J16 is M40, J17 is Maple Cross. Better that get right for the claim

It's an utter bugger. I've got to do that until 2012 unless I go work
somewhere else and the Sprint with panniers is not narrow.

I *usually* head for lane 3 in the road works, as it's contraflow and
sometimes faster.

Good luck.

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Are you really *really* sure

That should learn him.


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Is the right answer.

 

Plus labour. So a grand.

 

Good point. The £80 is for one in primer.

 

Well, if the fairing panel will have to be repainted the painter of
choice will already have got some paint, otherwise you (well, he) is
about to find out just *how* much decent paint in small quantities will
cost.

 

You're not in the clique; what do you expect?
As an outsider your accidents are your own fault and amusing.

 

(The Older Gentleman) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying:

Y'know I pinged you the other day asking if t'was you on the M26, but it
wasn't...?

Well, I was stuck in that, too. Just under the 1 mile to M40 sign. And
I'm not surprised somebody got taken off, the way people were just
wandering about...

Three fucking hours from Richmond to J17.

After two frigging hours to get from the bottom of the Chiltern
Escarpment to the Wycombe junction on Weds night after somebody thought
barbecueing a car transporter full of PPing-Pong Rectum 4x4s would be a
good plan.

 

All in, it'll be 2012, ITYF...

They're just moving round slowly towards the A1.

 

How was the car ? I hope the door was suitably f*cked ?

GWS bike.

Paul.

 

**** him then, go to his insco now.

I can't beleive that fat **** wouldn't help? You should have punched the fat
cunts lights out. Disgusting not to assist, ****, he'd get fucked over in
France for not helping you.
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Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike
Honda ST1100 Pan European (comes this week)

 

ShiteOldSaxo. Who'd notice?

 

Is the right answer.

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