park your bike in a safer place.
People suck - hit and run
I'm currently taking classes at the University of Cincinnati and working part time. Last Thursday I went in to work around 3:45 after I was done with classes. The only thing I had eaten that day was a bowl of cereal around 10am. I was planning to just see how things were going, stay for maybe an hour, then go home for some dinner and work from home the rest of the night.
Things were pretty busy and I ended up staying until after 6, at which point I was starving and mentally exhausted. So I walk outside to my bike, and there's a note on the seat. I read it, then took a step back and started to notice all the damage on my bike.
The note was from a guy who witnessed the accident - it said a silver suzuki SUV hit me then bolted and it had some phone numbers and a license plate number.
So I call the police.
They take their time getting there.
I give them all the information I had.
They tell me I'll be contacted by Tuesday.
Wednesday night I get a message from a detective saying he ran the license plate and it belongs to a blue Kia... ****ing **** *** **** *****!!!
Either the witness was wrong, or the plates were on the wrong car... and either way I'm screwed.
The damage:
The tail fairing is all scratched up and cracked in 2 places, the extension on the right peg was completely broken off (including the threads on the peg, so the whole thing has to be replaced), the rearset was bent, the passenger peg is badly scratched, the right upper fairing and front fairing have light scratches around where they meet, the mirror housing is scratched and won't hold its position anymore, and the right crankcase cover is scratched. I took pics of everything with my phone, but only the peg and tail damage really showed up in the pics.
I'm pretty upset about it because before this my bike was 100% mint, now I'm embarrassed to ride it until I get at least the tail fairing fixed.
I've now had damage done to my accord, my mazdaspeed 6, and my 1000rr in the last year, and even though none of it was my fault I've had to pay for all of it. Why can't people take responsibility for their actions and not be cowardly assholes?
Things were pretty busy and I ended up staying until after 6, at which point I was starving and mentally exhausted. So I walk outside to my bike, and there's a note on the seat. I read it, then took a step back and started to notice all the damage on my bike.
The note was from a guy who witnessed the accident - it said a silver suzuki SUV hit me then bolted and it had some phone numbers and a license plate number.
So I call the police.
They take their time getting there.
I give them all the information I had.
They tell me I'll be contacted by Tuesday.
Wednesday night I get a message from a detective saying he ran the license plate and it belongs to a blue Kia... ****ing **** *** **** *****!!!
Either the witness was wrong, or the plates were on the wrong car... and either way I'm screwed.
The damage:
The tail fairing is all scratched up and cracked in 2 places, the extension on the right peg was completely broken off (including the threads on the peg, so the whole thing has to be replaced), the rearset was bent, the passenger peg is badly scratched, the right upper fairing and front fairing have light scratches around where they meet, the mirror housing is scratched and won't hold its position anymore, and the right crankcase cover is scratched. I took pics of everything with my phone, but only the peg and tail damage really showed up in the pics.
I'm pretty upset about it because before this my bike was 100% mint, now I'm embarrassed to ride it until I get at least the tail fairing fixed.
I've now had damage done to my accord, my mazdaspeed 6, and my 1000rr in the last year, and even though none of it was my fault I've had to pay for all of it. Why can't people take responsibility for their actions and not be cowardly assholes?
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