Neighbour reversed into my bike...

[Lcrooks89]

Hi all,

I'm new here and looking for some advice. I have a 2014 ER6F and just passed my test last August 😊


So, my car decided to poop it's pants last Thursday so I went up to my parents where I had been keeping my bike over winter to bring it home. I normally park the bike tight up to the back window of the apartment so that's where Perry (don't ask 😂) returned to. The following morning my neighbour reversed into my bike knocking it over.

Upon initial inspection we didn't notice much damage. Nothing to the fairing but scrapes to the handlebars brake levers and mirror. As a new biker I felt the need to take it to a local garage to get checked over. Ended up with a few more problems than I thought. Close to £800 worth of damage. Bent handlebars, broken indicator etc. Also noticed the front fork had a chunk taken out of it.

When I bought the bike there was only one mark on it, not even the size of your little finger nail, now there are some considerable scrapes.

Neighbour was very easy to deal with initially but now he seems to be getting a little awkward when I gave him the estimate for repair. He said we would go through the insurance company and has now changed his mind to getting somebody else to price the parts.

Is it bad that I just want my bike to be in the same condition it was?

Anyone any experience with this sort of thing? Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.

[NJD]

I feel that this thread was also made by you.

Happy Sock Saturday.
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[Lcrooks89]

Nope not me... Or are you being sarcastic? 😂

[Tankie]

Tell him that's the cost, advise your ins company,
but tell them not to do anything ...yet.
tell him to ether pay for the repairs or get his ins company details ,and then go to his ins company and put in a claim.
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[Lcrooks89]

Thanks for replying..

Already informed my insurance company. They suggested to try settle it privately which I initially thought my neighbour wanted to do. Suppose I will have to wait and see what he comes back with. He just better not refuse to give me his details. The North West is nearly here 😂

[MCN]

You get it fixed where you want to.

You do not need to be forced to get it done cheap.
I would price it at a dealer and ram his insurance.

Prick.....

He will learn to fear bikers hopefully.
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[Ste]

[Lcrooks89]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DuwkFPMh03i68EFp1

Here ya go

Ignore the panel part. There already was the tiniest scrape there and I told him that. I have no intentions of screwing anyone over ☺️

[G]

That parts list isn't cheap - and presented on a hand scrawled bit of note paper. Apart from the bars at least, the parts prices do seem about right.

He presumably wanted to avoid the hassle and expense of a claim - a £1k bill isn't really going to offset that, so seems quite reasonable he'd want to go through insurance.

Quite reasonable you want to get it sorted to the state it was in - and quite reasonable he wants to use his insurance to do this.

Of course, if you were going to pocket the near-£1k and get it fixed for £100 DIY, then it won't work out so well to you - if that was the case, you could always ask him for a smaller bribe in full and final payment by cash .

[Rogerborg]

[Tankie]

because with most policies you must tell them , that's why.
You can also instruct them not to act on that information
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[Rogerborg]

[Tankie]

You just tell then there has been a collision , you are not obliged to give them any costs at this point, so you retain your no claims and control of the situation.
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[kramdra]

Your price list is a complete piss take, more expensive than dealer prices. The only notable item there is the fork leg, it would be interesting to see a pic of the damage.

33 quid for a bar end ! 55 quid for a mirror on a shitty er6

[NJD]

[Ste]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[kgm]

[Rogerborg]

[MCN]

[MCN]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[kramdra]

The most important thing here... Pics are required. How can we say the repair quote is reasonable without pictures. Some of the bike damage as well

[G]

I had a look and the bars are the only thing I saw actually overpriced - an extra £13 ontop of fowlers price.
I wonder if the round-number £

[ThatDippyTwat]