klx 250 FRAME STRENGTH TESTED AGAINST AN ESCORT

[bill23435]

Well I was out riding yesterday afternoon trying to put some break in miles on my bike. I was up to 53 miles. I decided to take a spin through my residental neighborhood and was heading North at 25 MPH The escort was heading South and I assumed we would just cruise on by each other. Well he decided to make a left hand turn into his driveway. No signal no warning he turned about 5 feet in fron of me and I crashed into his side. Other than being extremely sore in many places today and possibly some wiplash no life threatening injuries. Anyway the frame where it meets the fork cracked and the fork is just dangling there. Police came and he was cited for reckless and I now have a brand new totaled KLX250 with no collision insurance. I hope he does Can't wait to see what the insurance company will give me for it. It was only two weeks old. By the way he has the same insurance company as me at this point I don't know if thats going to help me or hurt me.

Thanks for reading

Hurting in Virginia

Oh the first thing the cop said was you can't have that on the road. (not how are you after tumbling over an escort) It was fully street legal

 

[trial_07]

I love tumbling over pretty escorts :laugh: No seriously I own an Escort zx2 and they aren't very strong. A women backed slowly into me and caused 1250$ of damage on my rear wing, she had nothing! The insurance paid alright since it wasn't my fault. I got the car back last Friday.

 

[oldguy]

Were you legally licensed to be driving a motorcycle on the road? Was it properly licensed to be on the road? Does your state require Ins to be on the road?
If you answer no to any of the first 2 or yse to #3 you may be out of luck since you then did not belong on the road.
Glad to hear you are OK and hopefully something can be done to fix the bike

 

[MONKEYMOUSE]

Dont quote me on this as I dont know the extent of the damage. But if its what im picturing in my head a GOOD welder should be able to fix that for you.

 

[Jeff Gilbert]

Glad you're okay. I had a close call last week myself in regards to an accident with a bike. The difference was I was on a track loader doing maintenence when "mom, dad & son" came riding up behind me on the track while I was backing up. It was about 4 in the afternoon and I had been working in the same part of the track since 6am. The little PW50 was no match for the loader. I was glad all I got was the bike :whoa:

I was relieved that the kid didn't get smushed but at the same time I was pissed that mom & dad had no more sence than to let junior ride behind a loader that was backing up.

 

[bill23435]

Were you legally licensed to be driving a motorcycle on the road? YES

Was it properly licensed to be on the road? YES

Does your state require Ins to be on the road? Yes state minimum is liability I had that

If you answer no to any of the first 2 or yse to #3 you may be out of luck since you then did not belong on the road.
Glad to hear you are OK and hopefully something can be done to fix the bike

 

[oldguy]

From those answers you should have a good chance to recover your bike repairs or replacement especially if the report indicates you had the right of way.
Good luck