Deer Hunting with the ST

[SupraSabre]

That was a fast settlement! No buy back huh? That's interesting. I might be looking to change my Insurance company.

Well good luck on you search... I know where there's a '03 St1300 in Colorado Springs! Just ask Khris which dealer he left it with for his Goldwing!

 

[paulcb]

Just got my settlement amount from Geico, it was very fair. What they did tell me, which was of interest is that they do not offer a retention (e.g. buyback), so I'll be shopping for a new bike, it'll be very tempting to go for a later year ST again, but those BMW's might cause me to go in another direction.

Also, as SMSW said, I have not done a close inspection and there could be more damage as the windscreen was broken and carriage mechanism for it was smashed-in as well, so at this point I will not complain and just feel lucky. I'm sure those right side red panels (undamaged ones) will make it on the market somewhere sometime.

Since no buyback, and if possible, try to pull off any farkles that you can (seat, tpms, gps, highway blades, etc), unless they were fair enough to include them in your settlement.

 

[playinatwork]

Geico let me pull off all my farkles when they totaled my bike.

 

[SupraSabre]

Geico let me pull off all my farkles when they totaled my bike.

Did you have to have replacement parts for things like the saddle and such?

 

[playinatwork]

No, I even took the bags off the bike.

 

[IntRunner40]

Fork brace? Highway wings? Tip-over bars? Gear indicator? Front fender extension?

I'll buy the fork brace.

You definitely have a good memory, I had a hard enough time remembering May 22nd. But, if I do not stay with the ST, there will be a few items you mentioned available at a good price, plus a Russel Day Long seat and 50L Shad topcase that is color matched to the 2008 Red ST.

 

[keith.mallett]

Practice - Practice -Practice
Training - Training - Training

Can I get you to teach the new lesson I added on "Avoiding Deer"? No one has volunteer to demo the the lesson on "Dancing with Moose" that I added last year.

Glad you are ok! Time for some new cowling, a winter project I guess.

 

[SmashVol]

Read with interest as I was trucking along at a good clip on my FJR yesterday and leaned in on a curve and caught a glimpse and there was a doe sitting in the other lane and she just casually started to stroll into my lane and broke fairly hard, came up to her and she just looked off and walked on off into the woods. Women, wont get out of your way for nothing!
On a serious note, glad you are ok and that I did not join you.

 

[T_C]

...a Russel Day Long seat and 50L Shad topcase that is color matched to the 2008 Red ST.

No Givi tank bag and matching Lok ring?

Women, wont get out of your way for nothing!

Oh... Mark knows that!

Pictures of the STeed after the battle? and it's final faithful act of bringing you home while wounded?

 

[Shuey]

Just got my settlement amount from Geico, it was very fair. What they did tell me, which was of interest is that they do not offer a retention (e.g. buyback), so I'll be shopping for a new bike, it'll be very tempting to go for a later year ST again, but those BMW's might cause me to go in another direction.

Insurance company's are not in the bike selling or auction business, it's easier for them to just turn it over to an auction yard and write it all off.

I offered to buy back my last wrecked ST (#3) and was given a nonsense price of $6,000 or so by the insurance company, which I . . . declined. The bike was turned over to an auction yard in Knoxville and sold for $450 or so I think. Find out where your bike went and you might be able to get it for parts early cheap.

My first ST ('07) met a similar fate and whomever bought it parted it out on eBay. It was easy to recognize my wolf logo on the side bag being sold!

Shuey