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And it's sold.

Another bump?

I am in South London (Brixton), as is the trainer.

bump?

Sold I am afraid

Due to a combination of oldness, laziness, and fatness my CycleOps Fluid 2 trainer is going sadly unused.

This has always been kept indoors and works like new - as my gut can attest to.

As I am moving home soon something of a declutter is required and this very expensive bike stand is top of the list.

Free to a good home for £125

New Phil Wood 32 hole front hub for sale.

Been living on a shelf in my house for the last couple of years and never got round to the project I'd been keeping it for.

Moving has forced a declutter.

£80 ono

Some good news from way back on Page 1 of this thread.

After 6 months of tracking down the driver (who changed her phone number), being made a derisory offer by her husband, dealing with two car insurance companies (it was a hire car) neither of whom would accept liability, and multiple phone calls, letters and emails, today I've received a cheque for the full amount of damages I claimed.

Take home lesson, perseverance and refusing to be fobbed off works.

I'm now waiting to hear back from the hire car insurance company and the police.
I'll wait to hear what they have to say before deciding who to complain to next.

I've also contacted the police again and they seemed rather unimpressed that I should be bothering them.
"We sent you a letter informing you that the case was closed. What more do you want us to do about it?" was their opening gambit.
sigh

I've contacted the insurance company of the rental car company again - they should have vehicle insurance even if the driver wasn't covered on her policy.
I guess if this fails I will need to go down the small claims route.
I've previously spoken to a solicitor but as there was no personal injury its punitively expensive to pursue this in any way other than on my own.

An update to my incident from a few months ago now:

The driver changed her number soon after the incident so I couldn't contact her to send her a bill for the damage.
I made a report to the police who decided as there was no personal injury there was no case to pursue.
I used the askMID.com website to get the driver's insurance details.
Turns out she was driving a hire car but had opted to use her own car insurance to cover her - so rental company claim they are not liable.
They did, however, give me the insurance policy which she was using as cover on the rental car.
I contacted this insurance company who confirmed that she had an outstanding claim, the reason she was using a hire car, BUT, her policy did not cover her to drive a hire car, and therefore they have no liability relating to the incident.
So now I have a driver I cannot contact and two insurance companies who both deny liability.
due to lack of personal injury this will cost more than the damages are worth to hire a solicitor.
Any advise?

Steroid offers temporary relief for the majority of people with carpal tunnel syndrome.
It is rare for it to result in long-term symptom relief, however, except in the case of pregnancy when the symptoms often abate after delivery.
If you have thenar muscle wasting along with the symptoms you describe I would suggest you have a carpal tunnel decompression ASAP. It will not reverse the muscle wasting but will prevent further deterioration.
Steroid is a temporising measure in equivocal cases - in your case it just sounds like you're deferring the inevitable.

Well the good news is the frame and fork are fine.

The bad news is the driver isn't answering my calls or returning my texts.

Does anyone know a good place to get the frame/fork alignment checked out?

Couldn't the driver's lawyer argue that the rider was filtering stationary traffic on the inside (that's the reality of most of the CS7) and failed to slow down when a car left a gap to let oncoming traffic turn? I.e. shared responsability ?
I'm not excusing the driver BTW and wish your claim to be successful.

I really don't see how riding in a bike lane to the left of stationary traffic makes me in any way liable.
Perhaps, if I had cycled into the side of her car then it could be argued that I should have been able to stop, but she drove into my right side.

Just looking at the above photos, I've only now realised that she drove 2-3m through me to get to where the car stopped.
Lucky escape.

I just spoke to the police and they recommended I fill out a Form 206 for reporting damage only.
Seemingly a full formal report isn't needed as there were no injuries.

Cycling down Tooting High Street this afternoon in the lovely, shiny, blue CycleSuperHighway (littered with parked cars as usual).
Stationary traffic to my right as is also the usual case.

A car turned through a gap in the stationary traffic from the oncoming lane and unfortunately drove through me in the process.
Thankfully I just saw her coming in time to control my fall on to her bonnet and only had a mild bounce along the road.
I had a helmet on and suffered no injuries at all, not even a bruise or a graze.

Alas, the same can not be said for my poor Geekhouse.
My front rim is completely destroyed, as is the hub I think.
The forks and frame seem fine, but obviously I need to get this checked out.

I have the driver's details and told her that I expect her to pay for the damage to my bike but I'm not interested in being an arse and making a claim on her insurance or anything like that, but it's a pretty expensive bike she decided to drive through and I feel she should pay.
She disputed liability as "you were going too fast and not looking where you were going. The other driver waved me through. I had the right of way".
All of this is complete bullshit to my mind.

Can anyone suggest where would be good to get the frame/fork checked out for alignment?
I'm based in South London so local would be better.

I took pictures at the scene, got her contact details, car registration etc.
Anything else I should have done?
I've not contacted the police as I was uninjured - should I call them?

Behold my poor bike:

Just as a follow up to this I feel compelled to post here to compliment the Kryptonite customer service in relation to this incident.
Within a few hours of emailing their US customer service dept they replied to me and agreed to pay for a locksmith to remove the lock and to replace the broken lock.
Within 3 days of returning the lock to their UK dept I had a new lock couriered out to me and a cheque covering locksmith costs and postage.

If only every company was this easy to deal with.

Sorted, at last.

Took a good 10 minutes to cut it off with an angle grinder.

Thankfully kryptonite are paying for those "locksmiths".
£79 + vat. Ouch.

Glad to see how hard the lock is to break though.

Update; locksmith came and went.

Despite being told what the lock was and how it needed to be taken off he arrived with a drill and confidently declared he would remove it without any trouble.

30 mins, 3 battery packs and multiple drill bits later he has left and the lock is still intact.
Someone else is coming with an angle grinder.

This is not how I envisaged spending my bank holiday.

The locksmith hasn't removed it as of yet.
My bike is at work and as I had this afternoon off I did not want to hang out at work.
Hopefully he'll be able to do it Sunday when I'm at work.

Will try to video the magic as it happens.

As an update to this I got an email from Kryptonite customer service this morning.

They are willing to pay for a locksmith to cut the lock off and to replace it.

No evidence of tempering with the lock.

It's also locked way too securely to get a car jack into it, it's super tight between the rack and the wheel.

It is the faghhadaboutit New York lock, not even the mini, 18mm of hardened steel.

Will try it tomorrow with WD40 and see if I get any joy.

It should hopefully be okay overnight, fingers crossed, it is my road bike so hopefully nobody quick releases all the bits.