Car drivers are....

[jasonuk1984]

....w@nkers!!!

Lets begin...

Decided to go for a nice Sunday evening ride (luckily I didn't take the misses!).

Crusing at the normal speed limit (30mph) and following at distance some prat in a red nissan micra. Stupid idiot doesn't know where the fcuk he is going and brakes late for a right turn and signals as he turns.

I was in the middle of the lane to the middle of the road, hit the brake, the front end goes and both I and bike go into it. Didn't go directly into the back, but smacked the bottom right of the bike as I was going down.

I'll post pictures as soon as I have them.

Jasonuk1984

[Tony Montana]

What a cock!

I had a dumb splitarse pull out on me as I was coming round an island, thing was she looked at me, saw me, & still decided to pull out on me. Luckily I never went down cause I was going slow & had ample time to adjust but still, read the fckin highway code...bitch!

Gutted for you mate, hope your ok.

Looks like a nice bike you had there anyway!

[jasonuk1984]

pictures....

[R6Pilot04]

Sorry to hear of the off Jason.

I suppose as per the normal insurance ideas that because you were behind you are in the wrong.

How did you go down if you were following at distance, roads looked dry & clear?

[brym]

Bad luck that I can't stand people who don't know what they are doing pull over if your not sure not cause an accident!
From an insurance point of view it might go against you as you hit the back of the car, Very hard to get out of that....sorry not trying to put the knife in, But it is i have a bit of experience from my earlier years. Good luck with sorting it out

[trickster]

sorry to hear about your off. i think we've all probably had a few near misses with idiot drivers. any update on the damage to your bike?

[fractureman]

Hi Jason, sorry to hear of your small of. Hope you get it sorted out ok mate.

Not wanting to make profit out of your mis-fortune but I have a spare set of R&G front engine mount crash bungs for sale.

Looks like the bike is ridable and fine except that and a mirror. I know you are dealing with insurance but the offer is there to buy cheaper than R&G themselves mate.

Greg

[jasonuk1984]

Thanks for the info.

I was travelling at around 25/30mph with the space of around 2 cars inbetween. The weather was sunny and dry.

The thing here is that I hit the bottom right hand corner of the bumper. So I think that the bike may have gone underneath me as I hit the brake. If the car was an extra foot away then more than likely I wouldn't have hit him.

The bike is still totally

Greg - Thanks for the R&G offer. I'll take you up on that if the insurance company are being idiots.

NOTE: As I was writing this, the insurance company called and informed me that one of their repair companies will be contacting me to pick up the bike and repair it!!

Thanks
Jason

[R6Grummy]

Bad news Jason. Main thing is you aren't hurt.
So it looks like a panic grab of the brakes lost the front and she went down on the right. Then slid nose first into the bumper causing the main damage on left headlight area.
Thats a shame because if it didn't go down, you may have been far enough back to stop in time
Like Trickster said, we've all had close ones in the past, you were just unlucky not to get away with it.
I hope the insurance works out and they do a good job. If any panels are lightly damaged, insist on replacement parts instead of repair and paint, because if you are putting in a claim, you might as well do it properly.

[haze748]

that sucks man, ive never seen a slider get bent back like that, i wrecked my 07 back in december when some old fart turned in front of me at an intersection, panic grab of the front brake, flew face fist into his bumper, still have nerve damage in my right arm but i'm still riding like nothings wrong, bike wasnt too bad at all though, i took all the damage! Gald youre ok though!