Hey all, looking for some thoughts on how to proceed - my girlfriend has a little, low speed off at the weekend on her 2013 GS1200, which seems to have ended up being much worse than one could have imagined. I'm not really sure of the details, as she's not UK based (Germany) and I have not seen any pics, but a low speed lowside on slippy road surface sent the bike into some solid metal fencing and of course it had to hit one of the stanchions...
She's absolutely fine, and got the bike taken to her dealer. The dealer is saying the bike is beyond economical repair. That's the point that I found out she was only insured 3rd party... don't get me started on that.
I remember a post on here a few years back, which I can't find, telling a similar-ish story of accident damage to an RR that threatened to write a bike off, yet the bloke was able to get the bike back to a mechanically safe condition for a few hundred quid, even if it wasn't cosmetically perfect - I'm trying to get gf to work out if that's what's happening here, or if it is genuinely gubbed.
She has declined (for now) an offer of ?4k for the wreck, whilst we work out what to do. The dealer has listed a bunch of things that are wrong with the bike over the phone, and we're trying to get that in writing to work out what's mechanically necessary vs cosmetic. We have of course got friends over there that are helping out, but just looking for any thoughts/ideas to make sure we've considered everything. Given that when she bought the bike it would have been about ?1500 cheaper here, I'm hoping that I might be able to source parts cheaper, e.g. through motorworks (anyone else worth a try?)
..oh, and I had a pretty miserable weekend myself - smashed up a toe so badly that I need surgery... as such don't think I'm being ungrateful if I don't reply to any posts quickly, i'm just just dealing with that.
Lucky white heather anyone....
She's absolutely fine, and got the bike taken to her dealer. The dealer is saying the bike is beyond economical repair. That's the point that I found out she was only insured 3rd party... don't get me started on that.
I remember a post on here a few years back, which I can't find, telling a similar-ish story of accident damage to an RR that threatened to write a bike off, yet the bloke was able to get the bike back to a mechanically safe condition for a few hundred quid, even if it wasn't cosmetically perfect - I'm trying to get gf to work out if that's what's happening here, or if it is genuinely gubbed.
She has declined (for now) an offer of ?4k for the wreck, whilst we work out what to do. The dealer has listed a bunch of things that are wrong with the bike over the phone, and we're trying to get that in writing to work out what's mechanically necessary vs cosmetic. We have of course got friends over there that are helping out, but just looking for any thoughts/ideas to make sure we've considered everything. Given that when she bought the bike it would have been about ?1500 cheaper here, I'm hoping that I might be able to source parts cheaper, e.g. through motorworks (anyone else worth a try?)
..oh, and I had a pretty miserable weekend myself - smashed up a toe so badly that I need surgery... as such don't think I'm being ungrateful if I don't reply to any posts quickly, i'm just just dealing with that.
Lucky white heather anyone....