My first "incident"....

[duke8]

Yep mick new bike, but I don't wanna jinx it yet, so I'll wait untill it's in my garage before saying too much more . Let's just say it is a monster, and will have alot more factory bling than the 620

[duke8]

G'day guys n gals

Just though I'd post an update of what ended up happening with my bike n gear. It may help someone else at some stage...

Basically I took the bike to get a smash quote at frasers... Quote came to around 9k... I thought they were going to write off the bike, however when the assessor came, he found a few things that were just wear n tear, and manged to negotiate the price down to 5.5k.

Turned out they had a Termi kit for the 620' which they quoted 2k for, a new tank was 2k, and the other items were my clutch lever, gear lever, mirrors and a new rear seat cowl. All the damage bar my termi's was superficial, and didn't really need to be replaced, so I took it home and decided to fix it myself...

Insurance cut me a chq for 5.5k for the bike and they also gave me another $1500 for my gear, being a shoei tzx, visor and a new Danese jacket( jacket just got small scratch but the helmet is toast).

I got some replacement termis from a dmf member (thanks dom) for $450, and thats all i had to spend  on the bike. Got a new helmet snd jacket, and spent a sizeable portion of the leftovers on mods for the s4rs 

All in all it ended up well for me, I just had to send photos of my damaged gear, and quotes for replacements... No questions asked and no disputes. I was really surprised how easy the whole thing was, as this was not my insurance company, it was the other guys.

Thanks again to all who offered support and advice 

[cicii]

No probs Damo!

[kyle]

Thanks Damo! For saving me $450

That's a good news story mate! Who are you insured with? Thays awesome of them to send you the cheque and not have inw of their repairers do the work!

[duke8]

No worries kyle .... The timing was just right, it was meant to be 

As for the insurer, it was nrma, but it was the other guys insurer, not mine. I didn't even inform my insurance co... I was stoked when they said they'll pay me rather than the dealer... Scored well form an unfortunate event 

[monstermick58]

Good to hear that things worked out.

   So if I read this right, you now have about 5k to play with ??

      MMMM.... project bike maybe?!





                                   Mmick

[Betty]

      MMMM.... project bike maybe?!

His new 'project' bike is what you see in his avatar Mmick 

[duke8]

Exactly right Betty.... Nothing empties a bank balance like a ducati and a freely used debit card  ... It's been fun though. Pretty much done modding the rs now, just waiting on a few more packages to arrive