Traded paint today on the motorcycle

[Fitz]

I wouldn't trust a tow company

Load it up an take it to your local shop

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

A thousand times yes. Only once had bike on tow truck. Not my idea. I was cuffed

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[AZRedhawk44]

Jesus *expletive deleted*ing Christ on a *expletive deleted*it Covered Punji Stick.

Tow truck shows up at my house.

Load bike on flatbed tow truck.

Suddenly, tow truck does not have authorization to tow my bike anywhere.

Wait around for half an hour while the left hand talks to the right hand.

Then unload the bike and tow truck leaves.


Got on phone with USAA (dumbass Saturn driver's insurance) and complained.

Dispatching another tow truck.

Yay.

[Fitz]

Load bike

Take to shop yourself

Avoid heartache

[AZRedhawk44]

Load bike

Take to shop yourself

Avoid heartache

Haz nothing to load bike onto.

[Fitz]

Haz nothing to load bike onto.

Ah

Bummer


For future reference - a very serviceable motorcycle trailer can be constructed from harbor freight components

If you were close to me I'd bring over my truck

[Balog]

As part of that rebuild I had a line made at Pirtek (they are an industrial hydraulic line supplier). Teflon lined, stainless braided, with a polymer coat over stainless. About zero expansion and should last forever.

Nice! How much was that?

[AZRedhawk44]

Bike gone now.

Down to 1 bike, my old XR600R.

[Fitz]

Bike gone now.

Down to 1 bike, my old XR600R.

I'll take it off your hands

[White Horseradish]

Nice! How much was that?

If I remember right, somewhere around $45-50

[gunsmith]

Ah

Bummer


For future reference - a very serviceable motorcycle trailer can be constructed from harbor freight components

If you were close to me I'd bring over my truck

please elaborate?

[Fitz]

Sure....

I got the "folding" harbor freight trailer with the larger wheels on sale.

Added two sheets of pressure treated plywood, assorted hardware , and a decent Moto chock. Extra bolts so it doesn't fold anymore

Total? Under 450 including trailer registration

Lemme go find a pic

[Fitz]

Here's a pic

[gunsmith]

thanks, I'm probably going to ask a friend for a tow sometime in May. I do have to get one of those though.

[AZRedhawk44]

Here's a pic

Cool!

How do you load it?  You've got about 12-16" to lift the bike, seems to me.



I was talking to the guys in the service dept, describing the hit and the damage to the bike.  Service guy actually suggested the bike might be totaled, which shocked me.  It was $8000, with $1200 in accessories on it (windshield, saddle bags, brackets, passenger backrest, luggage rack, aftermarket kuryakyn pegs).  Add in almost $1000 in sales tax and such and it's $10,000 to replace the bike.

I'm guessing an insurance company would try and screw me down to $6000 to $7500 at the most, and to replace the bike I'm looking at a $3000 discrepancy.

If it gets totaled, I'm thinking I'm going to go with a slightly different bike.  Something a bit more traditional in orientation, and a bit more power.  That Honda CB1100 that we were talking about a few weeks ago interests me, as well as a Triumph Bonneville.

But I'd prefer to just have my bike fixed for now.  It's got visible impact damage on the suspension and rear hub interface with the shaft drive.

Getting a new bike would screw over my motorcycle trip.

[wmenorr67]

Do you really want a "totaled" bike fixed?

[bedlamite]

Do you really want a "totaled" bike fixed?

It depends. A friend of mine was hit in a parking lot, and it tipped over.  It was totaled from minor cosmetic scratch on the frame, the labor to switch it cost more than the bike was worth. He took a pile of cash from the insurance, bought the bike back from them at salvage value, replaced the fairing and a few other parts, and pocketed about a thousand. The bike has a salvage title now so resale value is down, but he planned on riding it for a long time anyway.

[gunsmith]

It depends. A friend of mine was hit in a parking lot, and it tipped over.  It was totaled from minor cosmetic scratch on the frame, the labor to switch it cost more than the bike was worth. He took a pile of cash from the insurance, bought the bike back from them at salvage value, replaced the fairing and a few other parts, and pocketed about a thousand. The bike has a salvage title now so resale value is down, but he planned on riding it for a long time anyway.

yup, as a mc messenger I went this route more then a few times.
It's only totaled in name only ( tino ) .

In place that have yr round motorcycle riding their is often folks that specialize in motorcycle towing, might be worth looking into for future reference.

Cool!

How do you load it?  You've got about 12-16" to lift the bike, seems to me.

fold-able ramp, cheap at harbor freight.

[Fitz]

yup, as a mc messenger I went this route more then a few times.
It's only totaled in name only ( tino ) .

In place that have yr round motorcycle riding their is often folks that specialize in motorcycle towing, might be worth looking into for future reference.
 

fold-able ramp, cheap at harbor freight.

Yep. I have a foldable ramp

[Tallpine]

fold-able ramp, cheap at harbor freight

There's stuff made out of dead trees too 


Heck, I made something to haul a car out of two big timbers and four planks to set on the back of my log truck which only had the bunker turntable. 

[gunsmith]

oh yeah trees, I always forget because we don't have em here in the desert.

[Regolith]

oh yeah trees, I always forget because we don't have em here in the desert.

Telephone poles kind of count, don't they? 

[AZRedhawk44]

Telephone poles kind of count, don't they? 

Mostly made out of the shiny parts that come out of rocks, around here.

[Tallpine]

Around here we have stores that sell pieces of murdered trees.

The stuff is pretty useful for some things.

[AZRedhawk44]

I had to rescue a motorcyclist friend about 6-8 months ago... his tire contracted leprosy and started flinging pieces of itself at high speed on the highway.  I borrowed a trailer from a different friend and went to pick friend #1's bike up.  Ended up using some really skanky plywood as a ramp that we REALLY shouldn't have used.  It held up to get the bike about 18" off the ground and onto the trailer.

Friend was teaching an Appleseed so I left him where he was and took the bike to my house.  Unloading, I used T-posts as supports and a big sheet of plywood as a ramp.

I was just curious if Fitz' rig had a fancy ramp built into it somehow, or if he was using one of those folding aluminum bike ramps.