dropped my bike for the first time :(

[l3uddha]

Well, I have this thing about WalMart. I never bring my bike there, that parking lot is the epicenter of stupidity for the neighborhood.

This is the case with all Mall Warts.

But If I did you better bet it would be on the sidewalk.

My insurance doesn't cover that stuff anyways.

you weren't the guy who parked his bike on the fire lane strip by the front & got upset when the parking lot attendant moved the bike; were you? 

[blue05twin]

You might as well report it and if anyone ask if you had any previous dmg to your bike say No.  That way ther other persons insurance will cover the cost of repair / new tank plus the painting of said tank and everything else that might be damaged or broken.  Might seem like a pain to go through but I bet the next time that person starts to back out of a parking space he'll / she'll make sure nothing is behing him / her. 

Some people should not be allowed to drive anything bigger than a VW, prime expamle is my sister-in-law.  She has one of those huge Dodge trucks.  So far she has backed into another auto, crubed the front tire's twice.  Hit something ( I think it was a light pole or fence post ) with the front end.  and backed into another truck once.  Wife let her borrow the Pac one night came back and had a dent in the rear fender.  She said it was like that when she came out of the store.
She also backed in to a fence post too.  And ranover those concrete things infront of parking spaces.

Now she wants to get an H2

[Unnamed]

just out of curiosity; where was your bike parked when it was hit?


driver's ED isn't mandatory here in MA. people do it because of the training and (the big benefit seen by most) the insurance discount.

mandatory MSF for everybody won't happen. maybe they'll incorporate motorcycles into driver's ED? that would probably be half-assed and leave people with more questions than answers.

what I think would work well is if, by taking the MSF course, you not only get a 10% discount on motorcyce insurance, but 10% off AUTO insurance as well. This would drive many more people to take the course; regardless of weither or not they actually ride or own a bike.

taking the MSF makes people better drivers for many reasons. When I completed the course & saw my insurance drop, I was actually suprised that my car insurance didnt go down as well.

again, where did you park your bike trend?

Making the MSF mandatory would never work, but how about if all states started subsidizing it? In Illinois its a free class and I'm sure a lot more people have taken it because its free. The classes start taking people in the spring and most are filled within a couple weeks. If Illinois could offer twice the number they do (they offer quite a few) I expect they could fill most of them.