My Tuono was in the bike park in Parker Street last week on Thursday and somebody knocked it over and bent the side stand.
The damage was pretty minimal, scratched frame, radiator cover, mark on fairing, but I had to replace the stand which cost me £140!
The alarm would have been going off and somebody had propped the bike up with the help of a brick. Just a thought in case anybody saw anything, although the bay was full of scooters. I can’t figure out how they hit it, the bike was in the middle of the bay…
Hi to you as well… I think?
Yep 1st post here, I was pointed at this forum from another one that I contribute regularly to.
I suppose I should have said some more exciting things about how I’ve ridden up to London from Surrey for the past 10 years but TBH I couldn’t see the point.
As my mother said if you don’t have anything interesting to say then why flap your gums…
I doubt that anyone will have seen anything but you never know.
Nothing like being made to feel welcome, sorry if I wasn’t aware of the cosy little club you have here…
I’ll **** off now then shall I?
So let’s see if I can translate what you are saying… I ask for a bit of help, I get told the bike wasn’t knocked over and I must have had a bent side stand. Of course, how stupid of me not to realise that!
PS That was an ironic comment, in case you didn’t realise.
No CCTV covering the area (it must be the only place in London that isn’t!)
I suspect it was the building work going on opposite, maybe a delivery van, I think my bike may have fallen on another one which was then moved. The bike was knocked over at some point during the morning and I found the damage when I checked at lunchtime.
If you wanted to be made welcome, then I’d suggest that (for me at least) your reference to scooters in your first post isn’t a great way to start.
Are you trying to say: “this site is called LondonBIKERS, so there won’t be any scooter riders on here, and seeing as the bike bay was full of scooters then they will be the only ones who might have seen something so I’m wasting my time trying to find them on this forum”…
Or are you trying to say that the unnamed “they” who hit your bike MUST have been scooters? (Which, everyone knows cannot be true since it a proven fact that all scooters park ON TOP of or at least unnaturally close to, your bike, leaving it no room to fall over)?
Sorry, but given my lack of knowledge of this forum I’m not sure how many people would be scooter riders - hey we are all on two wheels and we can get knocked off.
I don’t think it was a scooter that hit the bike, the damage on the opposite side to the stand was a bit heavy, plus it must have had a pretty big thwack to bend the stand. A scooter would just have leaned against my bike hoping a bit of that raw power would transfer to it (that’s an attempt at humour as well). I suspect a van or car hit it, the road is a bit narrow there due to the building work.
Good point about being parked on top of though… I’m looking for a new spot!
Fat chance you’d get a scooter leaning up against a bike to try and get anything to rub off (unless the scooter was a bit dirty! :D:P. Only joking. At least it’s an Italian bike, so there’s something to admire).
It’s the dog’s, as far as finding a parking space in London is concerned. Piaggio dealers used to give them away for free (some may still have some old ones left). Me and Mrs BB both had them. She put hers “somewhere safe” and now it’s dematerialised into another dimension, but it’s been so useful that rumour has it she’s considering spending hard cash to buy another one. That’s gotta be a recommendation, because she’s not the first one to get her wallet out unless it’s an emergency.
Am I missing something here? One person feels like they need to vent online (like none of you has ever done that) and you jump all over him? And the scooter comment, did he say a scooter rider knocked it over? He was making a factual statement, not a slur inciting genocide against scooter riders.
I hope all your bikes remain upright and you never have to post like that on here.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, teh intarnets is evil.
And with that 1 comment i now dont give a sh1t about your bike or you.
Firstly you did not say that some1 had told you it was knocked over
I thought it odd that it had fell and bent the stand, i was mearly commenting on maybe the bike could have fell due to a weak stand thus bending it.
Does it really matter if someone didn’t introduce themselves in the proper way, you could have just given any help (if you had it) and then pointed them in the direction of the newbie section rather than jumping down their throat, what a way to welcome a new member and how is this person mentioning that the bay was full of scooters having a go at or blaming scooters!!! Everyone finds LB in a different way, may be by pure chance, looking for help on the net or they have a problem to solve like this person, give them a break and be nice!!
All I have to say is, sorry to hear about your bike, hope you get it sorted now before you get mobbed even more why don’t you pay a visit to the newbie section - http://londonbikers.com/forums/Forum59-1.aspx Welcome
sorry to hear ur bike got knocked over and even more sorry to see the pointless replies you have recieved. i don’t normally venture into cr@p like this but it just amazes me that people are such to$$ers.
so the guy didn’t know the geek biker approved method of posting on an internet forum. who gives a $hit!!!
it seems like if every post a member makes isn’t completely water tight or infers something that could be deemed as slanderous/offensive then the to$$er police jump on it instantly. quite simply…get a life!
