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I have been tidying my 1100 GS up over the last couple of weeks since I cannot ride it, I reckon I could easily remove and replace the forks in around an hour, Bring it to me and I will fix it for you, there seem to be plentiful 1150 bits around, basically the bike is yours for a grand, a few hundred should see it roadworthy, pocket the difference and enjoy some depreciation free biking
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Stewart, do you mean bring my bike to you and you will put recon forks on it etc.
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Stewart, do you mean bring my bike to you and you will put recon forks on it etc.
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Absolutely, if you would like me to repair it.
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Have you an email/phone number.
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Am I right in thinking that if you keep the bike the insurance give you 5 k, and if they keep the bike they give you 6k?

I'd keep it, especially if you have some help with putting a new front end on it. If you're using recon/secondhand parts 5k is a very good budget to rebuild with.

The only exceptionto this would be if there was damage to the frame - you can usually spot this as either an abvious bend or crack (if it's really bad), or rippling of the paintwork. This might turn out to be a proper can of worms. If the forks gave way and not enough force was transmitted to the frame to damage it then you should have no problems getting it all ship shape and leave enough in your skyrocket for a deecnt road trip to 'shakedown' the new beast.

Don't forget to budget enough for the person/people helping you out. I love fixing mates bikes and run a labour cost of 1pint/hour.
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As far as i know, there's no frame damage, but the steering ball joint maybe damaged and of course the forks...??
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I managed to rebuild an FZR 600 including new forks, everything blasted and poweder coated, new seals on everything, a new stainless exhaust system an dall stainless 'dress bolts' (i.e. non high-tensile) for a smidge over 1200 quid. True it's not a 'Bust my Wallet' but I reckon you could do a pretty severe upgrade on teh 1150 with the insurance cash - it should even cover brand new bits
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