Insurance actually does come in handy sometimes, shocker

EuropeanNC30R... · Gay Hairdresser Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Karma :

Just had a financially nice couple of days. First off, my student possessions insurance paid out for the leather jeans and lid I wrote off a couple weeks back in a little accident. £465, and within one week Surprised

. Any of you other student types on here, I'd recommend getting the insurance with Endsleigh, and specifying your bike gear under external cover and for accident damage. Thumbs Up

Also, R&G have agreed to send me free replacement crash bungs etc in exchange for promotional use of the photo's Swaffs and G took Smile

Adam_P · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Karma :

loply · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Karma :

Lets see the pics in question
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Yamaha SZR660 Caution to the wind, the throttle pinned!

EuropeanNC30R... · Gay Hairdresser Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Karma :

This one is the money shot.

https://www.swaffs.co.uk/images/Maurice.jpg

Lots of other good one's too showing the damage, that Swaffs took, not sure which one they're going to use. (Can be seen in the photos forum). I'll be impressed if they're used in bike mags, probably more likely to be used in the testimonials section on their website I think.

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

How did you wangle the r&g one? I can imagine how that phone call went.

Maurice: Hi, I crashed, your product did what I paid for them for. Can I have some new bungs please?
Staff: Hmmm, do you have any photos of the incident?

If you've got the bollocks to do it and it paid off, then good on ya!!

Did they save much damage? I saw an R6 go down the road the bungs were f*cked but saved all but a little bit of fairing damage.

Gaz

EuropeanNC30R... · Gay Hairdresser Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Karma :

I did it the easy way and emailed them Wink

Just asked if I could have a discount for the photos, a week later got a reply saying I could have them for free.

They did seem to limit damage quite a bit, the bike was spinning around on tarmac for ages, I'd have probably holed an engine casing if the bung wasn't there. And I was able to ride it back to the pits as nothing apart from a small piece of fairing broke off.

slowarse · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Karma :

lol. nice one!!!!
what caused the crash though??

EuropeanNC30R... · Gay Hairdresser Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Karma :

Well, there's a couple different theories and I'm not totally sure as I didn't see the other guy at all.... but I'm messing around with a guy on an sp1, I passed him on the previous lap, he repasses me into the corner before that straight, then runs a bit wide using rumble strips. I give him a bit of space as he's almost on the grass, then start lining him up for a pass into the next bend as he's lost momentum.

Next thing I know, big bang then my bike is going from underneath me and I get flicked off. It seems the guy on the black bike on the right in the pic (my left), was overtaking the guy behind me then rode into the side of me.