How much can I scrap a 2010 Kawasaki Ninja 250R for?

[fuzzybabybunny]

FBB, dont let these idiots on the board get to you.

Glad you are okay, are your balls okay, you hit the tank quite hard when you crashed, I see the bump on the tank. As for the bike, it can be repaired, it can be fixed, it can be sold, but dont the towing yard have it.

I've been riding for years, and face is crashing is part of the equation. Its part of why we ride. I currently have liability on the bike but thats because i hardly ever ride, but I do have goads of life insurance (with the motorcycle inclusion, lots of them dont pay if its a motorcycle accident). When I do ride, I keep it careful. Night time is the hardest, since you can only see so much, i try not to ride at night and I try not to ride during the hours when the sun is in someone's eyes or twilight / dawn time.

INsurance will pick up the injury stuff, you should be fine. I am not sure who your insurer is, but when I got t-boned by a 87 year old 2 years ago, for me Kaiser picked all of it up. Though I wasnt injured like you.

Riding bikes is a lovely past time but its not really a good commute choice in So.Cal or Nor.Cal, we've all done it for commuting, I've ridden in teh snow, ice on the ground etc etc. But fact is that I prefer teh car, hence why my bike sits in the garage.

Next time shop around for insurance, I ride a 2001 GS500 and I used to pay quite a bit with Geico, but I have Markel American now, I pay roughly 56/yr liability, if I want full coverage with medical and all it comes to about 200/yr. Then again I got about 10 years experience on the bike.

get well soon.

Thanks Stig.

The bump from the tank is from my shoulder. I have no idea how I did it with my shoulder, but there is a bruise on my shoulder to prove it. No dislocations or anything though, or broken bones.

The bike is out of the tow yard. Now I just need to figure out what I should do with it. I need to at the very least take off the fairings and see what's salvageable, or if the bike is repairable - how much would a fork, front rim, tire, and radiator cost? Methinks it wouldn't be worth it.

I have life insurance as well, but I'd like it to not have to come to that

I have AllState as insurance. Hopefully the police report will say that someone hit me and then took off, because then the Uninsured Motorist portion of my insurance will help pay for my medical bills. But if the cop decides to be a dick and puts something down like "Wreckless Driving" and that it was a self-inflicted accident (on a perfectly straight road, with only the front of my bike smashed in), I'm done for.

Either way, the bike is done for. I only had liability and the person I hit is gone.

 

[Doppel]

"Wreckless Driving"

If it was wreckless driving you wouldn't have had to make the thread

 

[JulesMaximus]

Check e-bay for a used front end. Maybe check out the Ninja 250 forums to see if there are other front ends you could swap for as well. GSXR front end swap is popular on the SV650 and will bolt in with no modifications so maybe a complete front end from a Ninja 600 would work on your bike?

Here is a complete set of plastics but it is the hideous Kawasaki green color.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2008-2009-2...Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item415ec9696c

 

[JulesMaximus]

idiotic.

him dropping it twice is nothing. EVERY rider i know (many riding well over10+ years) have dropped it a few times. shit happens.

I do think he is a idiot for riding at night with the limited experience he has (sorry 6k is not a lot). that is one of the worst times to be riding.

He didn't have the right mind set for the situation and reacted slow/wrong.

I've dropped my last 2 bikes once each. First one I was moving it around in my garage and thought I had put the stand down. With my SV my foot slipped at an intersection and I went right over. Frame sliders prevented any damage to the bike, just bent the rear brake lever a little bit and busted the end off the front brake lever. I bent the rear lever back and installed Pazzo levers.

Haven't dropped the Duc yet. Hoping not to ever drop it actually...

Yeah, 1AM is no time to be out riding. That's when all the drunks are on the roads plus you are likely to be tired and add to that limited visibility and your odds of becoming a statistic increase greatly.

 

[SAWYER]

Did I miss it or was there an explanation for a 6k 250?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Did I miss it or was there an explanation for a 6k 250?

He bought it new.

BTW-I bought my SV650 new in 2008 and paid $6500 out the door for it. Sold it 3 months ago with 16,500 miles on it for $4000.

 

[SAWYER]

I was thinking 6k was more a 600's price, should have bought used

 

[Ns1]

Did I miss it or was there an explanation for a 6k 250?

3k + taxes/delivery/dealer bullshit = 5k +1k concussion overestimate = 6k

 

[JulesMaximus]

I was thinking 6k was more a 600's price, should have bought used

ZX6R is almost $10,000 new. Add in all the dealer prep fees and delivery fees (which are complete bullshit/profit) and you're probably up around $12,000-13,000...assuming you're dumb enough to pay that. Used, definitely around $6,000-6,500.

 

[lavaheadache]

That bike is very fixable. As long as the frame is straight that is. I bet it could be fix with less than a grand buying parts on eBay. I fixed my 636 about 6 years ago that was in much worse shape than that for about $1k

 

[Pliablemoose]

Lol, ok, flaw me for dropping my bike twice at 2mph with all of *50* miles under my belt, and while practicing slow speed figure eight drills in an empty parking lot. That obviously makes me a bad rider. Me tipping a bike at the showroom when I had *5* miles under my belt.

Yup, obviously makes me a bad rider. Those experiences at 50 miles totally negates all the learning experiences I got over my 6,000 miles of riding.

Christ, I cranked out 2X that many miles on a liter bike back in the 70's stoned out of my mind.

Bragging about 6K miles of experience is major fail FBB.

 

[airdata]

Bike doesn't look so bad. I don't see why you couldn't get $1500 on craigslist for it.