SimpleSimon
Active Member
Seems a silly question, doesn't it?
It isn't. I was in the hospital 11 days, and I really wondered if my trike would still be here when I got home. It was, totally untouched - I have some GREAT neighbors who looked after my place while I was gone.
So today I rode it down to the Comcast office to pay my cable internet bill. Locked it in the bike rack, went inside. I was at the tellers window paying the bill when a guy came in and asked, "Hey, who owns that bike out there?"
I looked over my shoulder and said it was mine, and he said, "Well, somebody just backed over it with a big pickup and roared out of the lot!" Talk about a sinking feeling - I went out, and found the right rear wheel taco'd over the axle mount, the trike conversion rear axle mount bent and the engine frame shoved into the engine hard enough to break off both motor mounts, the exhaust header, and most of the cooling fins on one side of the jug.
Right now it looks like a write off. The guy who saw it happen said the tailgate on the pickup was down and he couldn't get a license plate number. All he knew was it was a late 80's chevy 4 x 4, mostly black. I called the cops, he stayed and gave the cops a statement, then I sat there just looking at it while I waited for a friend with a pickup to come get me and the wreck.
Just got home a few minutes ago. I'm back to square one on my MB experience - no ride. Not sure what I'm gonna do at this point - medical bills are such that buying another engine is not an option, and as twisted as that frame now is I doubt I can straighten it well enough to ever be ridable.
So, I guess the lesson is - be careful where you park.
It isn't. I was in the hospital 11 days, and I really wondered if my trike would still be here when I got home. It was, totally untouched - I have some GREAT neighbors who looked after my place while I was gone.
So today I rode it down to the Comcast office to pay my cable internet bill. Locked it in the bike rack, went inside. I was at the tellers window paying the bill when a guy came in and asked, "Hey, who owns that bike out there?"
I looked over my shoulder and said it was mine, and he said, "Well, somebody just backed over it with a big pickup and roared out of the lot!" Talk about a sinking feeling - I went out, and found the right rear wheel taco'd over the axle mount, the trike conversion rear axle mount bent and the engine frame shoved into the engine hard enough to break off both motor mounts, the exhaust header, and most of the cooling fins on one side of the jug.
Right now it looks like a write off. The guy who saw it happen said the tailgate on the pickup was down and he couldn't get a license plate number. All he knew was it was a late 80's chevy 4 x 4, mostly black. I called the cops, he stayed and gave the cops a statement, then I sat there just looking at it while I waited for a friend with a pickup to come get me and the wreck.
Just got home a few minutes ago. I'm back to square one on my MB experience - no ride. Not sure what I'm gonna do at this point - medical bills are such that buying another engine is not an option, and as twisted as that frame now is I doubt I can straighten it well enough to ever be ridable.
So, I guess the lesson is - be careful where you park.
