Crash pics...Bravada cut me off...

Glad your both ok. Can find most of the parts on e-bay and pinwall salvage. If the insurance says your bag is only worth xx amount but really it's xxxx tell them to get you the bag painted to match the bike and you'll install it for free saving them the cost. I know it's the adjuster that come out but if they don't ride they seem to low ball you on the price. Do the math from dealer replacement parts to help argue your case for repair.

Bodaggit23 · August 7, 2014

Glad your both ok. Can find most of the parts on e-bay and pinwall salvage.

I find zero left hand hard bag for 1997-1998 Royal Star, or the chrome Guard that goes in front of it.

so far only the footrest can be found available and it's not even for my year of bike...

Nobody around here does body work on cycles...everyone just prices new parts and puts them on.

I do have the one guy that's going to paint my fender but he thinks they should pay to replace

everything including mounting hardware and brackets. Dealer agreed...My broken bag will never be the same...

Problem is, I can't get new parts for everything...

So I'll get a list of parts and prices from the dealer that cannot be purchased and see what happens I guess.

Bodaggit23 · August 14, 2014

More good news...it's not just the bag, chrome bar, and passenger floorboard...

The whole hard bag mounting subframe is tweaked to the right....who knows what

else is bent/cracked/broken. The exhaust is also dented in two places, and

somewhat looser than the other side...*sigh*

Taking it to Yamaha tomorrow for a parts list. I have to get a monetary amount

it would cost to replace each part even if the parts are no longer available...lol

http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/Bodaggit23/1997%20Yamaha%20Royal%20Star%20Tour%20Deluxe/Accident%208-4-14/BagsShifted_zpsc870db8e.jpg

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August 14, 2014

Sure glad your ok and on here to gripe about it! The alternative is much worse!

Just for some point of reference:

Its not hard to do $5000 worth of damage to these bikes just by being hit and knocked down at 25mph.

It will nickle and dime you pretty fast: An estimate at a Yamaha dealership will scare you when the total is figured up.

You may find that repairs will exceed the market value by a large amount....so be prepared to accept the bike as totaled...and if that happens you might be able to buy it back as salvage and rebuild it.

Or just let it go and find another bike.

August 14, 2014

I have full coverage, no clue what happens now.

What happens is you submit a claim to your insurance company since you have full coverage, and let them subrogate the damages with the other party's insurance company.

(If you had liability only it gets very interesting as you would probably deal with the other partys insurance company directly)

Either way, you need a good, overall, complete, estimate of the damage.

Edited August 14, 2014 by tx2sturgis

Bodaggit23 · August 15, 2014

Sure glad your ok and on here to gripe about it! The alternative is much worse!

Just for some point of reference:

Its not hard to do $5000 worth of damage to these bikes just by being hit and knocked down at 25mph.

It will nickle and dime you pretty fast: An estimate at a Yamaha dealership will scare you when the total is figured up.

You may find that repairs will exceed the market value by a large amount....so be prepared to accept the bike as totaled...and if that happens you might be able to buy it back as salvage and rebuild it.

Or just let it go and find another bike.

I know the quote is going to be high, plus most of the parts won't be available.

I just would like enough to get a newer set of bags (1999) with hinges and get

them painted and get a floorboard really.

Keeping the bike is not optional and I want no other bike.

I inherited this motorcycle in May when my father passed away. It's going nowhere.

What happens is you submit a claim to your insurance company since you have full coverage, and let them subrogate the damages with the other party's insurance company.

(If you had liability only it gets very interesting as you would probably deal with the other partys insurance company directly)

Either way, you need a good, overall, complete, estimate of the damage.

I'm dropping it off at Yamaha tomorrow for full parts and labor quote, even

though the parts can't be bought. As you said, I need a dollar amount put on

the damage and that's the only way to get it really.

I am dealing directly with their insurance company as of now because I don't really

want to spend $500 of my money to fix something I didn't cause. Unless I have to...

My insurance company said if they give me any hassle I'll have to go that route.

Bodaggit23 · August 20, 2014

$4700 with labor. It books at about $4000

Even better news, the other guys insurance company denied

the claim. Says I passed illegally, therefore their moron client

can do whatever they wish I guess.

The cop stated, and the North Dakota Century Code also states

that it's lawful to do so on such a road.

Page 5 here, section 39-10-12 if anyone wants to prove me wrong.

http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t39c10.pdf?20140819174405

Have to see what my insurance company says I guess, I have full

coverage after all. What douches......

Bodaggit23 · September 4, 2014

Well, they totaled it...

Actual cash value = $3500

Minus $500 deductible

Minus $1000 salvage value

Leaves $2000 to fix it. Works for me.

Bought newer, upgraded hinged bags and lower

profile bag guards, bought a used footrest and

$300 worth of paint for the new bags, and the

new fender. (from the "boss" incident weeks before)

I dropped the bags and fender off yesterday, got the

paint today. By the time I dropped the paint off they

already had the bags stripped and primed. Can't wait!

http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/Bodaggit23/1997%20Yamaha%20Royal%20Star%20Tour%20Deluxe/Accident%208-4-14/IMG_20140903_142727_242B_zps6d376aa9.jpg

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Barrycuda · September 4, 2014

Bikes are easier to fix than body parts Glad the two of you are ok.

Amen to that. Glad ya safe

Bodaggit23 · September 7, 2014

So...expensive lesson learned for me...

If you spend $300 on paint for the restoration of one of your

most sentimentally valued possessions.....open the can and

CHECK THE COLOR before you drop it off at the body shop...

I ordered the paint, trusted it was correct, dropped it off at

the body shop and he did the same, trusted it was correct,

and commenced shooting paint. I can't blame him for not

spotting it sooner, he's working on 4 other projects at the

same time, and expediting my bike to boot.

He got all three parts painted before he realized it was wrong...

I can only blame myself.

Anyway, he mixed up his own batch quick and was on his merry

way the same day, but it was week end and I have to wait till

Monday to see anything.

This is the bottom of the bag, supposed to be "ceramic ivory",

compared to the fender.

http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/Bodaggit23/1997%20Yamaha%20Royal%20Star%20Tour%20Deluxe/Accident%208-4-14/IMG_20140905_114240_752_zps1cb3ffca.jpg

He put a splotch on the junk fender just to show the contrast.

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