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Vincent · Banned Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Karma :

First time ever Mr. Green

Following a Kangoo type van down a one-way side street that's littered with speed bumps. The van stops, reverse lights came on and I started shouting like a madman while trying to back peddle furiously. He caught me up and the van mounted my front wheel smashing the mudguard. Luckily, nothing else is bust and after letting rip at the bloke, I told him we could go through insurance, (my Tax ran out 3 days ago, waiting for my new Insurance policy to arrive), or he could give me £50 towards a new muddy, which he did.
It's worked out quite well as I've been looking for a decent mudguard for a while as the one on the bike was split. So now someone else can buy it for me. Cool

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map · Mr Calendar Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

Is that a Honda?
If so my experience shows you'll be lucky to get anything in Honda plastics for £50! Shocked

A reverse SMIDSY, interesting.
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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

I wouldn't have done that, how do you know he hasn't bent your forks or buckled your wheel?
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colicabcadam · Trackday Trickster Joined: 26 Jun 2012 Karma :

£50 for a painted mudguard - that'll be second hand then !

don't you ever clean your bike ? lol
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Vincent · Banned Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Karma :

Vincent · Banned Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Karma :

I've been meaning to paint the fork legs too so it'll give me a good excuse to do so.
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Bet you cash money he'll end up saying you ran into the back of him.
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sebastianw · Spanner Monkey Joined: 22 May 2009 Karma :

So you have been riding arround without tax or insurance.................lucky to get away with it if you ask me

Alpha-9 · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Jan 2012 Karma :

So you've been riding around with no tax or insurance? Shocked

Oh, yeah, ^ that.

Shouting like a madman and back peddling... You know bikes come with horns generally right? Laughing

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Suntan Sid · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 May 2009 Karma :

That happened to me years and years ago, I was on a Suzuki GS 550e at the time, handled like a barge and weighed the same, I think.
Fortunately I had a witness, a traffic warden, wrote everything down in his note book. Cool

I wrote a letter to the truck company, and I got £250 and that was, literally, decades ago!

You're cheap! Laughing

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.Chris. · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Karma :

You need insurance to get tax, not the other way round. Many insurers don't email the documentation through, and it can take several days for the policy to appear on the MID, meaning you can't tax it online in the meantime.
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KLR600 · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Karma :

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago. I was following a Volvo estate that was packed to the roof inside with stuff so rear vision was totally blocked through the rear window. I had a car behind me when we all stopped at a traffic light and he started reversing. I was beeping and back peddling furiously but the car behind me wasn't moving and the car in front mounted my wheel and cracked my mudguard.

He got out and I was angry and a bit shouty but he was apologetic and offered to fix it asap. I said I'd get a quote for the damage, took all his details and reg and carefully rode it to a garage after work who checked it over and confirmed it was just the mudguard that had broken. I got a quote for a brand new mudguard and it turned out to be £130 from Kawasaki, the guy gave me cash the next day and that was the last I ever saw of him.

Mudguard is still cracked now Laughing

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Alpha-9 · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Jan 2012 Karma :

Poop. I don't like being behind vans and big vehicles for this reason, I always stop to the left or right of them and try to sit in their mirrors to avoid that sort of thing happening

Then you get the ones who use their clutch at lights etc and slowly roll back into without them even realising Rolling Eyes

And that's retarded, why is everything the DVLA does always ass backwards and catch-22
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cornish · Forum Conscience Joined: 03 Feb 2011 Karma :

It is my personal opinion that the DVLA is Wales' revenge on the english Sad

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