So my lawyerfied uncle tells me that the council doesn’t pay out for normal potholes. Only for potholes caused by roadworks that they’ve done and not filled in (provided there’s no signage either). We’ve still sent them a letter, but I’m not holding out hope. Guess that means I’m short R2k I didn’t have to begin with. Credit cards are a wonderful thing aren’t they?

In other news: my bike has been fixed up and is ready for delivery. Somehow I don’t believe them. Everyone who reads my blog should be able to figure out why. It’s fixed, with “one” exception… they couldn’t fix the tripmeter. Let us all keep in mind that they broke the trip meter and new (or even used) clocks are going to cost me a few grand.

It’s the responsibility of the insurance company (I have fully comprehensive insurance) and the repairers to return the bike to me so that I receive the same value that it was insured for. It’s not and I’ve lost a chunk of money on this whole fiasco; certainly enough to have bought myself another bike (an improvement on what I had) had I decided to keep the bike as is and sell it as scrap and parts. If they had written it off and paid me out in full as they should have, all this could have been avoided and I’d have been better off.

One thing I have learned from this: if you have an accident, take the vehicle home!