Bike is in police possession awaiting them arranging to release it from property, to confirm its mine etc It doesn’t seem to be the fastest process.
Police are still liaising with me in terms of arranging pickup. Which I wont be doing until the insurance confirm what they want to do. They said they had been in touch with the police but you could have fooled me.
Police have been very good letting me know what’s going on, unlike the ex insurers who promised to call back following a review of my my offer but so far haven’t. No I haven’t chased them.
I was never going to offer them a big number, why would I knowing they will want to squeeze the max out of it and be hoping I offer more than their minimum so they are quids in.
Like I said, if they tell me what they want we can figure out if I can afford it/am willing to pay it and get on with it. In the meantime I’m not going to take a day off work and fetch it for them!
Lets be honest here if you had a bike nicked, wrote it off as gone and five years late someone said “we’ve found it you can have it back for a couple of grand” you’d probably have to go and check your bank account since the odds are you’ve replaced it and the wife might get peevish, especially since you’ve no clue how its ben treated other than its got exactly the same parts fitted and been in the possession of people of dubious reputation who cant even fix a puncture”
If it doesn’t work out it will be a great shame for most concerned in terms of publicity etc. I will live however, just like I have the last 5 years!