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[Pict]

Bastards

I share your feelings, Paul - the same mindless thing happened to my first wheels many years ago. It was only a Vespa scooter, but I'd worked with my Dad to build it, and it got nicked in Glasgow. Something led my to wander up to Maryhill, where I found it in a similar state to your bike on some waste ground. Some further strange intuition led me to a nearby tenement where I found a large policeman in "conversation" with a weedy little scrote. After explaining to the bobby what I was about, I got the frustrating response "Aye an' this is the wee c**t that did it, but he's safe 'cos they'll aa close ranks aroun' here an' swear blind he's been here aa day!". Even now I can still see that leer on the wee sod's face and feel my knuckles go white. If only the bobby had walked away for a few sympathetic minutes!!

[Quartermaster]

Bastards

Bastards indeed. You have my complete sympathy. May not be a good idea to have it back as it wiill always rekindle painful memories.

[wicklamulla]

sad sight indeed. so they had the ignition key ferrit too ?

[TonyDevil]

Just dont know whether to try get it back again.

you obviously liked that bike alot, just depends on if you'd already said goodbye to the idea of having it back

[dbninja]

Paul

have they got the scrote(s) that pinched it?

are they taking fingerprints n all that sort of stuff

or are they going to give you a crime number in a week or two




had a look at all 15 pics mate..... its enough to make you cry!
looks like the work of nobhead kids to me! obviously didnt know what they had or what to do with it when they got it... so they did the only thing they actually knew how to do!!!! .............. smash feck out of everything!


thousands of pounds worth of damage to it..... i know bmw prices!

i wouldnt want it back




dbn

[paulb]

Thanks for the replies

The police said that they found it abandoned, however the recovery guys were more open in that they told me someone was arrested for another offence and the bike found in their back yard.

I know where that was now, exactly.

The damage is mainly all round the upper front but includes clocks headlight front fairing bracket etc
The rest is minor and the bike hasnt done many miles at all.

They took the key but the key wasnt recovered. I think BMW could supply a new one tho.

Im just sitting back for a week to mull it over. I have a bike of the same model now and it all depends on whether they firstly offer it to me and secondly the price.

[Baron]

If I were in your shoes I'd be having a quite word with some of me rather large mates to go pay the scrote a visit one dark winters evening in a month or two. I hear hospital food is improving these days...

Edited by Baron, 03 October 2007 - 07:47 pm.

[TonyDevil]

yup, just make sure your out with a friend at the time, somewhere that has lots of nice CCTV

[jht]

If I were in your shoes I'd be having a quite work with some of me rather large mates to go pay the scrote a visit one dark winters evening in a month or two.


I hear hospital food is improving these days... No... its not

[Baron]

[Stunts]

That's really sad - in a way you have closure but in another someone has taken your pride and joy and smashed it up for no reason at all. They should have their effin' hands cut off.

[ChrisG]

If you've now bought another bike of the same model is it worth getting the old one back to salvage some of the trick parts?

[paulb]

If you've now bought another bike of the same model is it worth getting the old one back to salvage some of the trick parts?

Thats what Im hoping to do Chris
Depends entirely on whether the insurance stick to their word and also the price.
The 1200s would be a wicked tool if Streetfightered and big flat bars on etc, plus theres a place in Germany that would tune the motor.

Im just waiting with baited breath to see what trick they come up with next

[wicklamulla]

Paul do ya mind if i ask what sort of ball park figure would that bike cost you to buy off the ins. company ??

[zander]

i think someone should go round to their house an steal their pride n joy then smash it up, wouldn't be such smart little asses then would they, there is however no justice in this world as they will all put the blame on the youngest member of the group eho will be under the age of twelve so he wouldnt get cherged with anything and get a nice social worker to take him out ect ect ect. i know this cause it happend to me a few years ago and after seeing the damage they caused i didn't want my bike back. glad they caught them though

[paulb]

They work the figure out on a percentage of what they paid out normally.
They paid me 10150 so it'll be dear, but the general rule is cat d 30%, cat c less, cat b less again.

Even at 3500 quid its WELL worth it because having looked, teh damaged has been done while static and is all at the front end. No bent forks, damaged whels or tyres, motor etc. The 1200s is a superb thing.

The system alone second hand would fetch over 700-800 quid. I have a standard spare at home and its possible I'll buy teh bike back and sell it straight on at what I paid, however having taken the trick zaust.

They will probably try and get out of it anyway, so Im not holding my breath. Well I am, but only till mid week

[wicklamulla]

best of luck with it.