For the next few weeks my shoulders were stiff and painful when I moved them, and I had some pretty spectacular bruises on my left hip. But even more spectacular was the haematoma at the juncture of my left hip and thigh. I would post a photo, but my blog would lose its G rating.
to cut a long story short, I was scheduled for surgery to drain the thing, but a week before had it aspirated by needle in my GP’s surgery. A great relief! During this time I had been in touch with my insurance company who, in my view, were not moving quickly enough to ship my bike back from Hay. Eventually I discovered that the assessor suspected, from photos, that the frame was bent; and they did not want to send someone all that way to confirm it. So I shared some additional photos I had and... they declared the bike a statutory write-off. The bike was less than two years old, and my policy provided a new-for-old in that circumstance. I immediately called BMW: do you have an F850GSA? No, but there is one on the ship, arriving next week. It is the black and yellow 40th Anniversary model. No colour choice. C’est la vie. Firstly, I am grateful to God I managed to walk away from the stack. Secondly, while a new bike is always nice, I would far rather still have my old one, nicely set up and with brand new tyres; and a weeks worth of blogging and photos on this webpage. There will be more rides, Deo volente.
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