Accident :(

[flames247]

Well, got T-boned by a car yesterday directly into my left front tire/forks.

Ended up being thrusted through the air (held onto the bars tho) and landed next to it in a heap, did my best to protect it but.........shit.

So, got some horrible skuffs to the left fairing, bend front forks, and a crack in the front fairing (not noticable)

Have no idea whats gona happen with my forks, they could be repairable, if not, a new set will have to be aquired (hope not)

Im ok, just damaged my left leg tendons, back and arms. Nothing broken, so its all good.

Any ideas of costs of a new set of front forks?? Will have the bike taken to a dealer so assess the damaged soon.

Ride Safe!

-Flames

[BLacKPooLLaD]

Sorry 2 hear m8 aslong as ur ok i surpose!, alot of people have been coming off or getting knocked off recently. U probs have 2 buy new forks but isnt there insurance company gonna pay out?.

Also my mum saw this biker get knocked off well didnt see if happend but saw him on the floor with his bike onto of him and nobody got out there cars/vans etc 2 help just drove around him!!, a bus driver later stoped and helped him out but my mum was horrifided (spelling) and couldnt beleave what people was doing.

Luke

[flames247]

dont wanna get involved with the insurance companies if i can help it... Would sooner do this independent of them myself.

yeah, England if wierd at time, cant seem to help anyone out if there in troble.

Cheers, Flames.

[SpeedJunkie]

probably coz everyone sues everyone these days....getting like the states. ppl are afraid that if they try & help, for some reason if they move ya & paralise you, that they'll be held responsible.

or ppl just dont give 2shits about bikers :mad: ....but then what do you expect:rolleyes: .

same thing happened to my sister & the twat who knocked her off didn't even help her ....just fucking stood there:bond:


this is exactly why bikers stick together & always try and help.
coz no one else will.

[monkey]

yea very true not being a cunt but if its a write off let me have the cable below for a score :D

:banana:

[Key Walshe]

Cheshire Bike Salvage (http://www.cheshiremotorcyclesalvage.com/acatalog/) have a few sets of Rs125 forks in for under £100 so may be worth getting in touch with.

Sorry to hear about your accident too, and glad you're ok. It would be worth it going through insurance even if it takes a few months as you'll get a nice cheque when you're not expecting it for some goodies for your bike/yourself unless there's a reason you can't...
:confused:

[Craig]

If it was there fault its classed as a non fault accident so you dont loose your NCB as such. I would claim, and have all the bodywork repaired etc.

[BananaRep_RS]

my stepdad crashed his ZX6R into a car, on the way to the french gp on saturday and his travel insurance ran out a week ago *double :(
glad u ok tho

[Archie216]

Flames man,what you done to the bike , i couldnt believe my eyes,some idiot in a car has squashed the flying gnat,claim my friend why spend more money on it,when it was the car drivers fault, i am very upset,i feel like crap!(It used to bve my bike gents) Cant believe its happened to you.

Hope you and the bike mend well :eek: :)

[NickyBoyDemon]

too right....go through insurance and get them to pay some compensation for the injuries you may have sustained.

[flames247]

I know Simon, Its fuking rediculous, sorry mate :( I feel like shit too.

I was the one who pulled out and didnt see her, She had right of way so theres not alot I can do.

it was an extremly fucked up cross roads, and im just speachless tbh. Iv fuked up big time.

The left fairing is scuffed, and some minor cracks to the front faring.

it was mainly the front wheel that took the brunt of it hence the twisting to the forks. Its a real fuking shame and Im very upset about the bike tbh.

Well, having it sorted by a aprilia dealer, and I have to sell the bike when I pass my car test (end of july) - parents just want me to have a car.

Things change over time, so you never know, I may keep it.

Cheers for the replys mate,

take it easy,

-Flames

[Archie216]

Atleast your in one piece mate,chin up and all that,it happens:)

[flames247]

Originally posted by Key Walshe
Cheshire Bike Salvage (http://www.cheshiremotorcyclesalvage.com/acatalog/) have a few sets of Rs125 forks in for under £100 so may be worth getting in touch with.

Sorry to hear about your accident too, and glad you're ok. It would be worth it going through insurance even if it takes a few months as you'll get a nice cheque when you're not expecting it for some goodies for your bike/yourself unless there's a reason you can't...
:confused:


Thanks very much for that bud, much apreciated. Will buy my forks from them if mine cannot be fixed.

Cheers

-Flames

[ash t]

What is this, "god hate RS125 week" or somethin??

Sorry to hear about it, sounds like u got similiar, maybe worse damage than me. Hope ya get bk on road asap mate:D

[Steve]

sorry to hear about that m8, hope you get well soon and get ur bike fixed sharpish!!

I'm scared to go out on my RS now I tell ya!, i'll be drivin round paranoid thinkin that im gonna get squished by some dumb ass car driver. Seems like everyone is goin down one way or another lol :eek: :mad:

[monkey]

Originally posted by ash t
What is this, "god hate RS125 week" or somethin??

Sorry to hear about it, sounds like u got similiar, maybe worse damage than me. Hope ya get bk on road asap mate:D


HAHA weathers nice mate people i.e us lot go out with no protection (i.e -shirt) and think where rossi

well dont think rossi could survive on english roads:D

[SpeedJunkie]

LOL .... Rossi lives in London m8.

sorry to hear about everyone's misfortune & i don't want to sound harsh or anything but in these two cases, it was rider error & inexperience.
not other road users.

it's just one of those things guys, if you ride a bike, you will come off. it's not fun, but still part and parcel of the whole deal.

all you can do is learn from them & try to avoid the big ones.



hope your back on the road soon guys.

[rossirep]

this is pretty much what happened to me,

i pulled out at the same time as a guy leaving mcdonalds, and we met on the roundabout.....hit front wheel forks and sent me 20 yards up the road over his bonnet (2 years ago now)

you should NEVER hold on to protect your bike, leave it (let go) as soon as u know the shits hit the fan....u wont get tangled up then!!


i luckily had a bloke stop and say it was the car drivers fault....

without him, it would have cost me £1638 not the insurance...

oh and plus the £1400 damage to the car...

claim on it m8, get a dodgy quote and keep some of the money..


glad your sort of ok, hope the leg heals soon

neal

[VickersUK]

been looking for this post for like 20 mins lol, read it a few days back and jsut found these, thought they cud b gd 4 u m8,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=36796&item=7903693337&rd=1

hope it helps
Tom

[NickRS250]

is the frame still straight, youll wanna get that checked if its twisted yer yokes.

Nick

[flames247]

hey, thanks for that ebay link! bloody nice find that....ill put in a bid soon.

Bikes back and it top condition again :)

Only my Bottom Yoke was bent (all checked and sorted by Aprilia dealer)

So, its allllllll Gravy :)

Just have a few marks to the left fairing, apart from that the bikes back in "showroom" condtion.

Could have been alot worse.

-FLames

[Craig]

Has the bike being on a jig to see if it is straight, i know its common for the yokes to bend by the attatching mount, but not the yoke itself to twist / bend.

[RS125SP]

hey, thanks for that ebay link! bloody nice find that....ill put in a bid soon.

Looks dodgy to me, possibly stolen a bike and now breaking it down.

Cheers.

SP

[flames247]

I would be inclined to agree with you SP.

however as long As i get what I need, it dont really matter?

Probably a bad thing to say, but we dunno for sure if stuff is stolen probably 40% of ebay items are stolen, just go with the flow lol.

-Flames

[flames247]

Originally posted by Craig
Has the bike being on a jig to see if it is straight, i know its common for the yokes to bend by the attatching mount, but not the yoke itself to twist / bend.

Well, Im trusting them to have checked it all. There a Official Aprilia Dealer. They said that when they took the front end apart, it all just strigtend out again. They said all I needed was new bottom yokes that I got from ebay and it was all sorted.

-Flames

[VickersUK]

yeh wot flames sed lol, it has nothing to do with us if the biek is stolen or nto and the parts for sale are not traceable or anything and its all for a gd cause, althou gotta feel sorry for the owner if it is stolen :S lol

[flames247]

Yea of course we do Vickers! lol :S

[Craig]

Alot of stuff on ebay has got to be dodgey, like those people who break "like new" 2003 bikes, i mean the ones who break down the whole bike for no reason :D

[stu_rs]

i got 2 sets of forks if ur interested? £60 each, one silver one back.

sorry 2 hear bout ur bail man

stu

[repsolhonda46]

Originally posted by SpeedJunkie
sorry to hear about everyone's misfortune & i don't want to sound harsh or anything but in these two cases, it was rider error & inexperience. not other road users.

this is why there are soooo many rs125's in bits, at salvage yards, breakers etc...

people hit 16 and 17 and want the fastest bike they can legally have at that age. they rush through their cbt without really listening and want to jump straight on the bike and try to be a racer. sad, but in most cases its true.

[ash t]

Very True there repsol.

I dnt think you can stop it happening though. the only way to make a 16/17 year old respect an RS is by them actually experiencing a crash due to speed and inexperience. I know cos its how iv learned

[schnitzer]

sorry but buying bits off a broken bike thats been stolen on ebay does affect us all in a way..ur giving bike theives money to steal bikes...so as long as people buy stuff off em then theyre gonna carry on stealing bikes..hope none of u lot complain if ya bikes are nicked.as indirectly u have just said u wouldnt care.

[Craig]

Its giving them the incentive to steal more and more.

[flames247]

Originally posted by repsolhonda46
this is why there are soooo many rs125's in bits, at salvage yards, breakers etc...

people hit 16 and 17 and want the fastest bike they can legally have at that age. they rush through their cbt without really listening and want to jump straight on the bike and try to be a racer. sad, but in most cases its true.

lol dont start again,

I have been riding Motocross bikes for a 2 years, and my Aprilia MX 50 supermoto for 1 year. Now into my second year of riding a road bike.

I had stoped, and the car took my front tyre out (stupid fuking bitch)

Shit happens, this was so fucking rediculous, I hit myself everytime I think about it. Accidents happen to us all. You learn from it, and move on.

You do get alot of "twats" who do want to fastest bike or whatever, But Im not one of those. Iv got my A2 Practical on Thursday, and soon I will be working for the local Test center to help fellow bikers do their CBT, A2 tests.

-Flames

[flames247]

Originally posted by racing aprilia
sorry but buying bits off a broken bike thats been stolen on ebay does affect us all in a way..ur giving bike theives money to steal bikes...so as long as people buy stuff off em then theyre gonna carry on stealing bikes..hope none of u lot complain if ya bikes are nicked.as indirectly u have just said u wouldnt care.

How do we know there stolen? prove it m8!

If thier there, so what? as far as im concerned there legit.

-Flames

[repsolhonda46]

Originally posted by flames247
I was the one who pulled out and didnt see her, She had right of way so theres not alot I can do.

bit contradicting there m8 cos you just said you stopped and the car took out your front tyre:confused: :confused:

riding motocross is all well and good and makes you a better rider, as i have done motocross in the past, but there is no substitute for road sense and predicting the unexpected.

i see loads and loads of young lads on scooters etc racing along round my area.........sure they are good riders, you should see them deck it into the corners, but they have no road sense and are not using the most important thing on a bike.......observations.

[realroadrunner]

handling the bike is one thing knowing what is happenign on the road is another too amny people cant judge road conditions they either dont compensate or over compensate!! thous causing too many accidents
so i agree with repsol

[SpeedJunkie]

spot on m8. every advanced corse, in a car or on a bike is centered around observation.

alot of the time going fast is about using your head more than the throttle and you'll find that reading the road correctly can not only make you faster & smoother, but alot safer too.

believe me, i've tryed the thrash it everywhere method before i had as much seat time as i do now & it's just slow (little bit fun, but not as rewarding as when you do a smooth, safe & fast ride & everything just flows)


all i would tell anyone who hasn't had the on road time is:

Listen to that little voice in the back of your head & if you have any doubt about the manuver your going to make, then DONT do it!

just wait a second.


this has saved me from being roadkill on the bike & in the car more times than i'd like to remember over the past 6 years.

also, if you can afford it at some point in your life, invest some cash doing an advanced corse on the road & the same on a racetrack. it's money well spent.

[realroadrunner]

dont know if any one has seen this site before butit makes good reading
http://www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cx500/ridesafe/