Get a small estimate made up (Hello Word) and let her have that as if it were from ‘preliminary findings’ and if she accepts that, bingo! Liability established, genuine bill to come.
Citizen’s advice or those other dudes that Brooke (where’s she gone again?) used for slightly more reliable advice I suggest.
Hell, get a dictaphone and record her confirming her name and admitting to hit it.
Sell it tho, it’s defo jinxed.
Sadly it tends to be expensive when people agree with me.
Happy days, P just texteeed and it’s all funky chicken. 100 bucks and some bent bars (not the Soho kind 
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Harrah the Duchess Orginal is back in the game.
Yep, just bent bars (ooh er missis) and clutch, those with one hour’s labour and VAT will be £101. I doubt my neighbour will have a problem with that, as she’s mortified she hit my bike, knowing it was my new ‘beautiful bike’ that her husband had told her was ‘the Ferrari of motorbikes’. I think she’ll be relieved that I only present her with a bill of £101! Bent gear lever was straightened at no cost immediately. The bars are so bent that the lock stop doesn’t stop the movement, hence they hit the tank.
He thought the bike would be safe to ride, and with his 20+ years’ experience of fixing Ducatis, that’s good enough for me. Hitchin, here I come!
He’ll be ordering the stuff in tomorrow (unless he’s already ordered the bars, as he’d used the last ones he had), so will possibly get it all fixed Saturday week.
Dave even sorted out my brake light for me (a couple of gentle taps on the front brake lever and tightened something there, too), all done within a minute, at no charge.
So, sorry, Andrew but I’m not selling it just yet…I’ll wait for the next thing to go wrong! Shall we open a book on what it will be?
£101, plus the cost of your time Paivi, don’t forget that! That bit’s optional of course, depending on how bitchy you feel like being. With my neighbours, I would charge them a fortune, lol 
Yeah, but Jay, this woman is at home all day and the bikes are parked bang outside her house. She knows who they belong to, so if she sees some strangers around my bikes or trying to lift them into a van, she’s quite possibly going to call the police unless I piss her off. So, I’ll be really nice to her tomorrow, and as I’ve always been nice, including carrying her shopping when she was on crutches, she’s not going to quibble over a hundred quid. Remember, this is a woman who owns a house (not a flat, but a house) with a garden, in Chelsea…
Good karma and all that…
Bugger, there goes the wheel swapping plan! 
Why do I suspect it was the runner, in the parking bay, with an old women’s Micra?
LoL
But the Red Devil lives to break another day!
I mean ‘brake’
Good news and it is probably best to stay mates with yer neighbourhood watch crew.
LOL.
I enter the Shaggy plea… “it wasn’t me” 
I want to get into the Angel Training School… Tired of this Red Devil image, especially as most days we seem to be limping into action…
Glad it worked out OK in the end. And don’t you dare sell that lovely bike!!!
Sell it? Are you mad, woman? Who said anything about selling it…? 
