140mph off!! ouch!

went to the moto gp in germany a couple of weeks ago on my beloved shiny millie, for my luggage i used a oxford tail pack which just uses bunges to secure it to the rear seat, what a mistake that was!!
unfortunatly whilst doing 140+ up the autobahns the tail pack decided to slip round and jam my back wheel up! :bawlingwhich resulted in me testing out my new alpinestar leathers and brand new arai helmet on the german tarmac, the tarmac won!
i then got carted away to hospital after been knocked out, had to spend 3 days in hospital with broken ribs and concusion, ended up watching the gp from my hospital bed!!
i had aa europeon aa breakdown cover so i thought at least ide get my bike back, wrong!! the aa deemed my bike to be un economical to repair so refused to bring it back, i asked for pictures of the bike to be sent to me and the engineers report, the report said to repair it it would cost 10.000 euros!!!!!!!!!! as you know they didnt even cost that new! as im only 3rd party:doh, mistake, i could do with getting it back to see if i could salvage anything off it but when i saw the pics it wasnt too bad, its only slid on the right hand side and the exhaust, lower fairing and handlebar have taken most the damage and doesnt look too bad to repair.
so ive been constantly on the phone demanding i want my bike back as i then found out it was been advertised on a salvage website!! eventually they've agreed if i pay for it to come back, £660, they'll refund that after ive repaired it and they inspect it to say its road worthy, might as well of not taken any cover out:jack, sorry its such a long post but i needed to get it off my chest:rant

Dont worry, i know how lucky i am, its given me a big kick up the arse! when something like this happens you realise whats important and whats not!
i dont know what the problem with the tailpack was as i checked it without fail everytime we stopped, i went le-mans last year with it with no probs.
the breakdown cover was separate to my insurence, it was the all singing all dancing AA europeon cover which really wasnt worth the paper it was written on, my mates tried to ring them after i'de been taken to hospital to get my bike recovered and couldnt get through, the police ended up taking it away, on a plus note though, the biker travel insurence i had was fantastic, rang them in the morning and they had me on a plane home in the afternoon, also all my leathers, helmet etc are all covered

i dont mind you asking at all mate, quite simply i'm a ****!!:coocoo. the amount of hassle it would of saved if i was, they'de of just paid me out! it was only a few quid more, luckily i do learn by my mistakes:bigsmile

thanks for all your comments lads :thumbup