shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Cor wow, just clocked the thread, hope you're doing ok. I don't like riding your bit of town, O/m road terrifies and infuriates me in equal measure and the side streets get me going too.
Just been doored.
- Thread starter dan_bo
- Start date
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Cocheese
Active Member
- Location
- Bournemouth
Join the ranks of the cycling wounded. Have a speedy recovery and GWS. How the bike ?
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
Just got an email from HMP. He got found guilty of *somethingorother*, 6 points and a 600 quid fine.
fark 'em.
fark 'em.
JoeyB
Go on, tilt your head!
- Location
- Fareham, Hampshire
Is it possible to get your bike repairs / replacement covered by his car insurance? Or did he not have any?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
6 points and £600. That's quite good in the Scheme of things. The guy who knocked my mate off got 3 points and £120 fine and he denied it had happened (shame I had a camera phone handy).
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
I'm claiming on his insurance. Apparently.
6 and 600 surprised me actually. Tried to phone through to get some more detail but the lady in question is on holiday.
If you're in the right, don't let the ba$tards get away with it!
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
Not a bad court result. Add the cost of a lost no claims and it's beginning to hurt.
Hope you're better and got your bike mended or replaced on his insurance.
In a sane world it would also be an enhanced retest before being allowed on the road again.
Hope you're better and got your bike mended or replaced on his insurance.
In a sane world it would also be an enhanced retest before being allowed on the road again.
JoeyB
Go on, tilt your head!
- Location
- Fareham, Hampshire
Be interested to know how you go about making your claim... do you just call his insurance company?
That seems like a fairly expensive punishment considering that you only had minor injuries. Plus his insurance will rocket up now. Judge must have been a cyclist.
Did you have witnesses or was it just your word against his?
Was the bike repaired or replaced?
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
I think it is a fitting punishment! Have you never considered the possible injuries of hitting the corner of a door window frame at speed? If the point gets your face or chest the results could be catastrophic (at speed means anything above 10-15mph!). I have thought about this and Dan_bo got off lightly/was lucky.
I was saying compared to the usual lenient sentences you hear about in the news when drivers have seriously injured or even killed cyclists...
Wasn't there a driver fairly recently who was cleared of manslaughter after dooring a cyclist who then fell into the path of a bus?
hehe I've been reading pistonheads too much recently, I thought that too. Its a saloon for a start so not an RX, must be a GS. I think the GS430 has the repeater forwards of the front wheels so... square-ish side repeater at same height as the top of the wheel... my guess would be a GS300?
this little ribber but with the amber lenses pimped clear
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
hehe I've been reading pistonheads too much recently, I thought that too. Its a saloon for a start so not an RX, must be a GS. I think the GS430 has the repeater forwards of the front wheels so... square-ish side repeater at same height as the top of the wheel... my guess would be a GS300?
this little ribber but with the amber lenses pimped clear
Wrong! It's one of them soft-roader jobs.RX somethingorother.
ahh the shame, I blame you not rotating your picture properly before posting. Just had another look and the repeater is way higher than the GS above. I am most annoyed.
by the way, get well soon!
