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If you crashed your T .. what would you do?

Newelly2

Newelly2

Joined Nov 2011
490 Posts | 0+
who cares ... oh. ok ... the midlands. Shropshire
As most may know ... I threw my T off a Welsh road and into a Welsh field on 7th April.

It was insured for £4,000
Excess £250 ... fully protected NCD
Insurance offered ... and I accepted £2,880 + bike - excess

I opted to accept and put it back on the road knowing I could have bought a decent bog standard 2007 bike for £4,000 ... or a factory for maybe £5,950

I've spent:

Mirrors £40 (e-bay)
Air intake £60 (Griff)
Repair and spray upper fairing £100 (might yet buy a carbon one for £200)
Levers £56 (e-bay)
Headlight protectors £16 (e-bay)
Exhaust springs £13 (e-bay)

Total £285

Repaired by me:

OS rad protector £0
OS air scoop £0
OS exhaust hanger £0
T-cut and spray belly pan £16

Total £16

Bling added above original spec:

Ermax screen £40 (e-bay bargain)
R&G bar ends £25 (e-bay)
Rearsets £265 (Griff)
Anodised reservoir caps £20 (e-bay)
Anodised oil filler cap £10 (e-bay)
Anodised chain adjusters £9 (e-bay bargain)
Stainless chain adjuster bolts £18 (e-bay)

Total £387

Yet to spend

Polish swing arm £100? (guess)
Tyres £260
Service £215
MOT £25
R&G crash protectors £85
Replace clock glass £70

Total £755



So ...

To put it back on the road + bling + new tyres + service + MOT= £1,443

Money over from insurance £1,087

I've been on the internet and discovered that for £1,100 I could have my ***** extended to a magnificent 10" behemoth hard enough and durable enough to slice through granite.

I presented this fact to Mrs Welly for a serious adult discussion

We take delivery of a new TV and oven on Monday:no
 
nicely done... must be some tv if you've spunked a grand on it! lol you should have went for the carbon one.. i got my nose sprayed there a while back, and was near into it for the price of a carbon one by the time i'd bought a second hand one and got it painted.. kicking myself now, as it is starting to look like **** all with stone chips =\
 
Sounds like you've done well there mate. Bike better than it was? and a grand into pocket.
Think about a big ****, makes me wonder.. How much extra pleasure would You get from it, longer orgasm? I'm a sellfish ****, so balls to the X factor - the mrs, I'd spend the dosh on Me.:yes
 
Nice one Newsome, glad it's worked out for you in the end :thumbup

When you next over to Wales for a hoon then? If you don't watch the other channel you may not know that my T has been sat in the dealers waiting for a cam sensor since it broke down near Brecon in mid-May. No sign of getting it back for at least another week. NOT. 'KIN. HAPPY. :banghead:banghead:bawling

However, to ease the pain I've bought a Triumph Street Triple R which is rather spiffing fun :thumbup So give us a shout when you're about for a ride (and it's not ******* raining) and I should have some wheels to turn up on :yes
 
Hello Giles ...

Nice to hear from you

I suppose like me, you seek solace in the fact that for most weekends the weather has been truely dreadful so having no bike is less of a pain.

I love the way that having your T in dry dock ... you went out and bought another hooligan bike!

Honestly ... and avoiding cliches like "oooo it lacks character" ... whats the Trippy like compared to the T?

I was soooo close to taking the money and buying a Triumph or (sorry) a GSR 750 that the salesmen suffered friction burns when I snatched the money back

And why would I decide to throw myself and money at getting a 2006 CAT C T back on the road?

Because ... dammit ... the ******* thing has got under my skin

An RSVR was also an option for a while until I remembered I'm nearly 50 and any distance on a head-down-arse-up bike can be misery.

As soon as I can I'll be back in the saddle and ... perhaps a little wiser ... up for a ride -out.
 
Yep the dire weather has made it all a bit easier, if we'd have been having a cracking Summer I'd have got some seriously homicidal tendencies by now..:fire:fire:fire

When I got the go-ahead from the missus to buy a second bike (ridiculously, unexpectedly easy - "ermmm (cough, shuffle) I was err, you know, erm kind of possibly, er maybe, just a thought like, errrr thinking of getting another bike, erm as well as the Tuono like". "Ok, cool". WTFF????? WOOOOOP!!!!!!!!) I thought about what to buy, toyed with the idea of another sportsbike, nah too focussed and only work at prisonable speeds, adventure bikes, nah, too many Ewan and Charlie wannabe ****** connotations, retro, yeah, got close - a Bonnie, or a W800, or a Guzzi V7 - I was tempted....

But then I had a good think about what I really want from a bike and the sort of bikes and riding I love. And the answer was there: It HAD to be a hooligan naked. :thumbup

As to how it compares: Too early to really say as only done 500 miles so far running it in, but even under 6,000rpm it has amazing torque for such a (comparatively) small engine, and the handling really is as good as they say. It's so light and flickable it's ridiculous - I keep going into corners thinking I really should ease off now, and the bike's going "shut up you *****". It'll be buzzy on motorways and for the long journeys, the T will be far better there, but I reckon I'm going to love it.
 
Chain snapped and locked the wheel when leaning over to go round a corner... slid 20 yards and hit the kerb with the front fairing, shattering it to pieces. Would've been just few scratches if not the bloody kerb... Well, could have just rode slower I gues, but...
 
Looks exactly the same as mine ... ******!
 
I bought my latest "T" as a cat c write off .

As long as frame is OK I`d rebuild

I did and as we`ve seen ,so as welly so start saving and visiting Ebay etc

If not part it out ............... you may make more ??
 
glad to hear it all worked out well and that you have stayed with the T - hope to meet up for a ride out

maybe clouds do have silver linings?
 
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