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I picked up the remains of the Adventurer yesterday with a U-Haul motorcycle trailer rather than continue screwing around with the Geico clowns. It will be a month this Sunday since the accident and while Geico has made some small and clumsy steps toward resolution, it hasn't happened yet.
Since my Geico towing insurance turned out to be worth the princely sum of $50, professional towing was out of the question. The total cost for DIY towing was $25 for the trailer rental and another $35 for gasoline and I may be able to recover some of that.
My wife went with me and her reactions were interesting. She was seeing what was bent and broken and I was seeing what wasn't! For the broken parts, she was in the "How much is one of those?" mode while I was in the "That's fixable." mode. I kept telling her "The tail light's fine! I can fix the rest." but somehow I don't think she believes me.
The long (expensive) estimate I got from the shop was a good inventory of everything that wasn't in showroom perfect condition, but that in itself was a bit misleading. The dealer approach is replace everything while I was looking in terms of 'must replace' items, 'can repair' parts and 'cool battle scars!" :wink:
The major damage to the bike is the front end. The fork tubes are visibly bent and the front wheel is rotated about 30 deegrees to the left. I found the brake rotor a bit bent while pushing the bike into the garage, but the front wheel looks pretty good. I can't check runout until I can get the bike jacked up and the wheel spinning freely.
I don't know the condition of the triple clamps yet -- can't tell until the fork is disassembled -- but there was enough force in the crash to rip the weld off the turn stop on the frame!
So, here are the dealer list price replacement parts for the front suspension:
L-Fork........... $650
R-Fork........... $650
Lower Yoke.... $295
Upper Yoke.... $175
Front Wheel... $420
Brake Disc..... $185
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Dealer Total : $2375
Here are the high guesstimates for repair:
Wheel Repair....... $200
Rotor Straighten... $100
Fork Tube (pair).... $200
Triple Clamps....... $200
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Reasonable Total: $700
Of course, no repair work is going to happen until Geico gets their excrement together and everything is settled. :???:
There's some other damage here and there with the instrument cluster having taken the biggest hammering. The speedo is trash but the tacho might be OK.
Surprisingly the Ma's crash bars are only bent -- the highway pegs took nearly all of the road rash -- so I should be able to get the bars straightened. The bars really did their job though -- there's no damage to the engine and the shift lever doesn't even seem to be bent!
The main thing is that the engine runs.... :upthumb: :-D
Jim
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