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One reason never to let anyone up on your bike.

  • 08-06-2012 11:39pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    Not sure if this guy let the old man take it out for a spin or did he just hop on it and take off down the road, I'm sure it will all come out in court.

    "A pensioner was fighting for his life in hospital today after crashing his neighbour’s brand new 1000cc superbike - after he had vowed never to ride again.

    Bike fanatic George Tawse, 68, hopped on the showroom-fresh Yamaha FZ1 motorcycle after his neighbour pulled up outside his home in Cloverfield Gardens, Aberdeen.

    With no safety helmet, Mr Tawse revved the powerful bike before skidding off and crashing further up the street at about 3.30pm yesterday afternoon".

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156516/Grandfather-vowed-hed-ride-left-fighting-life-crashing-neighbours-brand-new-superbike.html


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  • #2
    unclebill98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,816 ✭✭✭unclebill98


    Wow.... Hope he pulls through crazy aul fella, hand stand on the bike was funny.


  • #3
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,548 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-18369284
    A man badly hurt in an Aberdeen motorcycle accident has died, police have said.

    The 68-year-old man was injured in Cloverfield Gardens, at the junction with Sclattie Park, in Bucksburn, at about 15:35 on Thursday.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • #4
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    RIP.

    I have seen a similar thing happen at a bike rally about 10 years ago where a young guy (inexperience with sports bikes) took off on a slabside GSXR and planted it into a lamp post, I met the owner of the bike a few years later, he got banned for several years and still lives with it.

    I would always remove the keys out and let no one ride it unless they are fully covered by their own insurance or else purchasing it

    The old man in this case obviously couldn't handle the power of a modern sports bike.


  • #5
    daenerysstormborn3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭daenerysstormborn3


    I wonder would the new tyres on the presumably new bike have had anything to do with it?


  • #6
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    bikes are too scary even when you have your helmet when you get in a crash you can go flying through the air


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  • #7
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Obviously bonkers about bikes

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    More than once over the years I've sworn to give up biking, but when its in your blood you're fecked!.

    RIP old biker.


  • #8
    daenerysstormborn3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭daenerysstormborn3


    christmas2012 wrote: »
    bikes are too scary even when you have your helmet when you get in a crash you can go flying through the air

    So a crash is scary then, not bikes.

    +1 Makikomi


  • #9
    Bikerguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭Bikerguy


    where are i come from there is no way to let the bike, people wont even ask you... its kinda like "unwritten rule" --->follow that and you are safe.


  • #10
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    How would the bike insurance work out on this very sad accident??

    Would the insurers class it as a theft and recovery,with regards the key still in the bike,and would they pay up on fixing the bike??


  • #11
    daenerysstormborn3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭daenerysstormborn3


    I doubt it. He allowed someone uninsured to get up on his bike and drive it (I'm sure the intention of the older man was to take it for a spin up the road and back) so I don't see the insurance paying out.


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  • #12
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,102 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    paddy147 wrote: »
    How would the bike insurance work out on this very sad accident??

    Would the insurers class it as a theft and recovery,with regards the key still in the bike,and would they pay up on fixing the bike??

    The insurers will only deal with this after the police.

    It all depends on what the owner wants to do. He could say the old man TWOC it and nothing will happen to him or he could say he let him ride it and get the book thrown at him.

    Keys in the ignition would be difficult but there are plenty or reasons why the keys could have been in the ignition.


  • #13
    daenerysstormborn3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭daenerysstormborn3


    Del2005 wrote: »
    The insurers will only deal with this after the police.

    It all depends on what the owner wants to do. He could say the old man TWOC it and nothing will happen to him or he could say he let him ride it and get the book thrown at him.

    Keys in the ignition would be difficult but there are plenty or reasons why the keys could have been in the ignition.

    Was going to say that about the keys in the ignition alright. I mean a lot of what the insurers base your premium on is how secure your bike is (i.e. they ask about whether it will be garaged, any alarm etc.) so you'd imagine they wouldn't exactly be throwing money at someone who left the keys in their brand new bike on street level.


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