Thanks, everyone, for the encouragement. I will definitely rebuild my baby once the insurance shenannigans are concluded
Well, my story isn't very exciting or dramatic, but I'll tell you how it went down. Our weather is finally getting nice, here in Houston, so, I rode my motorcycle to work last Monday, as I often do. I was wearing my helmet (always do) and my leather jacket (luckily it was chilly that morning, it was my first time of the season to put it on). Lunch time. I rode to lunch, sat outside and had a lovely spinach salad. About 1:30 I got on my bike to go back to work. It's a normal busy street in the city (Montrose, between Richmond and W. Alabama): two lanes each direction and a center turning lane between them. I was riding on the main street in the far right lane. I made it about two blocks when a woman driving a Nissan Sentra decided to cross the street on one of the minor cross-streets. She came from my left across four lanes and t-boned me from the side. I flew off my bike, did some somersaults over her hood and landed on the pavement on the other side of her car, skidding to a hault on my left elbow. Eight to ten bystanders descended immediately and an ambulance showed up shortly. I was in the hospital until Thursday afternoon (4 days). The damage: crushed right wrist (repaired surgically with a plate and some screws), radial head fracture of my left elbow (no lifting allowed, but otherwise left to heal on its own), stitches in the left elbow and right shin and some decent bruises (entire right thigh and much of my left upper arm). And my poor bike that I'm currently fighting about with insurance.
Insurance, after what I'm referring to as a "poor Google search" decided the value of my bike to be approximately $2k, and based on the repair estimate I have, they're trying to rule it a total-loss
As politely and professionally as possible, I informed them that their conclusion is unacceptable. And so, the saga continues.
