Official - I am am a numpty magnet.
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In the past year four of my cars have been damaged by other drivers. It’s not as though I am parking in the side streets of Kiev either, it has most often been in parking bays.
Earlier this week a hit and run smashed my Range Rover mirror. Happily I have dash cam footage.
This afternoon I parked my two week old motorbike outside services in Boston. I parked centrally in a bay, next to another bay in which a chap was repairing his motorbike.
I installed myself in the cafe and watched as an older gentleman on an adventure bike arrived and parked between us on the white line.
An arrival as precise as that I assumed would be followed by a flying dismount at the least. I was obviously disappointed, then, as he tried to throw his leg over his bike, got snagged by something on his rack and dropped his bike onto mine, knocking my helmet onto the ground.
By this time I was outside and, as he removed his bike from mine with a grinding sound, he cheerfully said “crikey lucky I didn’t hit your bike! No harm done!”
But of course there is harm, in the form of a dented exhaust and exhaust guard. I will need to tell my insurer. The entire insurance industry will quite correctly be forming the view that I am a magnet for numpties.
Earlier this week a hit and run smashed my Range Rover mirror. Happily I have dash cam footage.
This afternoon I parked my two week old motorbike outside services in Boston. I parked centrally in a bay, next to another bay in which a chap was repairing his motorbike.
I installed myself in the cafe and watched as an older gentleman on an adventure bike arrived and parked between us on the white line.
An arrival as precise as that I assumed would be followed by a flying dismount at the least. I was obviously disappointed, then, as he tried to throw his leg over his bike, got snagged by something on his rack and dropped his bike onto mine, knocking my helmet onto the ground.
By this time I was outside and, as he removed his bike from mine with a grinding sound, he cheerfully said “crikey lucky I didn’t hit your bike! No harm done!”
But of course there is harm, in the form of a dented exhaust and exhaust guard. I will need to tell my insurer. The entire insurance industry will quite correctly be forming the view that I am a magnet for numpties.
Furbo said:
But of course there is harm, in the form of a dented exhaust and exhaust guard. I will need to tell my insurer. The entire insurance industry will quite correctly be forming the view that I am a magnet for numpties.
Sounds like the numpty needs to be coughing up cash to settle this!BunkMoreland said:
Furbo said:
But of course there is harm, in the form of a dented exhaust and exhaust guard. I will need to tell my insurer. The entire insurance industry will quite correctly be forming the view that I am a magnet for numpties.
Sounds like the numpty needs to be coughing up cash to settle this!Roofless Toothless said:
My impression was that if you drop a crash helmet it should be replaced.
If it there is any good news it is this: I watched my heavy leather gloves and helmet fall from the bike. The gloves landed first and the helmet landed on them. It is absolutely unmarked.Furbo said:
Roofless Toothless said:
My impression was that if you drop a crash helmet it should be replaced.
If it there is any good news it is this: I watched my heavy leather gloves and helmet fall from the bike. The gloves landed first and the helmet landed on them. It is absolutely unmarked.
As for being a numpty magent - Whilst you can never proof yourself from this type of damage, parking in busy car parks can certainly increase the chances.
I try to avoid these of places whenever possible as its a dense collection of utter cocksockets with little regard for other peoples belongings
Edited by Dog Biscuit on Saturday 21st March 21:14
Dog Biscuit said:
It's not the aesthetic damage thats an issue - it's subjecting the helmet to an impact force and this will still be relevant weather the gloves stopped it getting marked
This won't have caused significant damage.Concerns around re-using a helmet following an impact are divided into two areas, compression of the helmet lining and weakening of the shell. The first would require an actual crash involving a head impact - you'd know about it, and may have suffered concussion. The second is possible by simply dropping the helmet on to a hard surface, but paint damage would occur at much lower impact energy. If it's not marked, it's not weakened.
Soloman Dodd said:
Furbo said:
If it there is any good news it is this: I watched my heavy leather gloves and helmet fall from the bike. The gloves landed first and the helmet landed on them. It is absolutely unmarked.
The lesson learned is never to leave a helmet perched on a bike seat or tank.Furbo said:
By this time I was outside and, as he removed his bike from mine with a grinding sound, he cheerfully said crikey lucky I didn t hit your bike! No harm done!
Aside from the obvious, it's the complete lack of any remorse or apology that gets me - if I did that (although I would be careful not to) I would be beside myself and proferring apologies, rather than trying to be jovial about it! Soloman Dodd said:
Furbo said:
If it there is any good news it is this: I watched my heavy leather gloves and helmet fall from the bike. The gloves landed first and the helmet landed on them. It is absolutely unmarked.
The lesson learned is never to leave a helmet perched on a bike seat or tank.
s. Speaking to the chap putting tyres on my bike, this sort of numptyism is common. Personally, I always try to park any vehicle far enough away from the next one that if it falls over it won't hit it.
It's probably driven by the same instinct that leads people to seek out the one car in an empty car park and park six inches from it.
This:
Helmet should be replaced.
It's not the aesthetic damage thats an issue - it's subjecting the helmet to an impact force and this will still be relevant weather the gloves stopped it getting marked
As for being a numpty magent - Whilst you can never proof yourself from this type of damage, parking in busy car parks can certainly increase the chances.
I try to avoid these of places whenever possible as its a dense collection of utter cocksockets with little regard for other peoples belongings
Helmet should be replaced.
Dog Biscuit said:
Furbo said:
Roofless Toothless said:
My impression was that if you drop a crash helmet it should be replaced.
If it there is any good news it is this: I watched my heavy leather gloves and helmet fall from the bike. The gloves landed first and the helmet landed on them. It is absolutely unmarked.As for being a numpty magent - Whilst you can never proof yourself from this type of damage, parking in busy car parks can certainly increase the chances.
I try to avoid these of places whenever possible as its a dense collection of utter cocksockets with little regard for other peoples belongings
Edited by Dog Biscuit on Saturday 21st March 21:14
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