Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - I just got hit by a car about 30 mintues ago.

And I don't know what to do. He ran and never came back, I didn't get the license number or make of the car (night time), and my bike is wrecked (not to mention my leg hurts also :().

Anyone have advice?

call the police.

call the cops and give them the best description you can.

:(

Take care of your leg at an urgent care center or emergency room. Then call the police and at least report it. Maybe this a**h*** was on a spree. Find out if you have insurance for personal property.

Alright. I just called them and they are coming down to my apartment.

I'm going to call my parents also. Thanks :).

good luck sorting this out hopefully they'll find this a$$h0le

Do you have health insurance? I got hit once when I didn't, and I needed an xray. It would have cost thousands of dollars that I couldn't afford. If you need to go to an emergency room, drop an alias. Give you maternal great grandfathers name, and a street adress that doesn't exist. Worked for me! Cast and everything!

Do you have health insurance? I got hit once when I didn't, and I needed an xray. It would have cost thousands of dollars that I couldn't afford. If you need to go to an emergency room, drop an alias. Give you maternal great grandfathers name, and a street adress that doesn't exist. Worked for me! Cast and everything!

Thanks for raising the cost of healthcare! :rolleyes:

Do you have health insurance? I got hit once when I didn't, and I needed an xray. It would have cost thousands of dollars that I couldn't afford. If you need to go to an emergency room, drop an alias. Give you maternal great grandfathers name, and a street adress that doesn't exist. Worked for me! Cast and everything!Not to mention that in view of the high cost of health care, what gbd is advising you to do is probably a felony. Now if you do it, gbd might well be an accessory before the fact, which might give you something to bargain with following your arrest.

Do you have health insurance? I got hit once when I didn't, and I needed an xray. It would have cost thousands of dollars that I couldn't afford. If you need to go to an emergency room, drop an alias. Give you maternal great grandfathers name, and a street adress that doesn't exist. Worked for me! Cast and everything!

Hey, thanks for that tip. That'll save me $610 a month in health insurance.

I have Blue Cross :).

But, the ambulance said I didn't need to go to the ER, so I am still at home. The cops documented everything tht happend, but I really don't expect much to happen since I didn't give much information about the car :(.

I can't stop thinking about my bike. It is so gone.

Crank... gone (fell into a sewer)
Right pedal. Broken.
Back tire... taco.
Frame is bent also.
My bars are ok though : /

My bike :`(

you're right it's all generic's fault, there's nothing else that could possibly be forcing the cost of health insurance up

Do you have insurance insurance?? Maybe you can get some money for the bike... Glad you weren't hurt too bad.

what was your ride?

damn, considering all the damage to the bike, sounds like you came out of it pretty well. glad to hear it. good luck with everything else.

Check with your parents. If you lived at home when you bought the bike, it still may be covered under their homeowners insurance in the event you don't have renters insurance.

Get a copy of the police report to give to the insurance company. Hopefully, it'll be insurance with a low deductible.

If you're really ambitious, I'd take a flyer over to different auto mechanics and explain you got hit. If they have their eyes open, the ass fool that hit you will bring their car in, and hopefully, you'll be able to catch them that way.

Use that Blue Cross like a hooker in clear heels, man. I get fisted every month with all the money I pay to those con artists. This is what insurance is for! Then get something expensive taken care of, since your deductible will be all used up and you'll not have to pay a dime more.

Good luck.

Koffee

The best news is, you'll be OK. I know it sounds like something your Grandma would say, but your health is everything and you can always replace the bike. Think positive, your OK and with the parts from the bike, you'll be able to build a new one after buying a frame on ebay.

As a police officer who investigated thousands of hit and run crashes in 15 years, you will be lucky if you ever see the car again. Even if you do, since you didn't have a good description initially, there is little you can do. You can try and go to the body shops,but in my area there are hundreds and that doesn't count the guys who do stuff in their garages on their own. Plus, do you think the body shops will likely give up someone who is paying for someone who isn't? Also, I can tell you with high certainty, that the driver was probably, 1) suspended, 2) intoxicated and 3) had no insurance.
ThankGod you are basically OK. You will be sore in the morning once the adrenalin dumps is gone. Take some ibuprofen or tylenol and go to bed.

Use that Blue Cross like a hooker in clear heels, man. I get fisted every month with all the money I pay to those con artists.

I can't say "ass" and you're talking about **** that makes Ron Jeremy blush. I call Bullsiht!

I get fisted every month with all the money I pay to those con artists.

i had that for a while. i shot my pimp.

yeah, koffee is right. when moving to college, all of my apartments required renters insurance. since i was still under 23 and a full time student, that insurance transfered over. if that's the case with you, MILK IT!

I can't say "ass" and you're talking about **** that makes Ron Jeremy blush. I call Bullsiht!

I got yelled at for having an itchy butt...

If your frame is steel, it may be salvageable. Especially if it's something special.

sorry to hear about your accident. Like a few people said above, keep things in perspective. A bike is a bike. You are you. You are more valuable than your bike. That you can still think, type, and move is the good news.

On a side note, I just finished watching the movie Primer, and I'm HELLA confused. I feel slow. You mathy-engineery dorky-types would love it. Put it in your netflix que.

How did your crank arm fall off into the sewer?!

Also, if you own a vehicle, and carry "uninsured motorist" coverage, you will often be covered for a "hit and run" incident. Thankfully, sounds like your not too hurt.

On a side note, I just finished watching the movie Primer, and I'm HELLA confused. I feel slow. You mathy-engineery dorky-types would love it. Put it in your netflix que.

is it more confusing than Pi? actually, i can't remember if Pi was confusing... only that i fell asleep several times trying to watch it.

is it more confusing than Pi? actually, i can't remember if Pi was confusing... only that i fell asleep several times trying to watch it.

+1, could never stay awake for that movie

Thanks for raising the cost of healthcare! :rolleyes:

yeah, people who can't afford health care should just suffer, instead of raising your rates.

No one said they should suffer, but they also shouldn't break the law and provide false information and not pay the bill they generate. There's no reason those of us with insurance should have to pay his/her bill.

My frame wasn't anything special actually. I got my whole bike for $90. It is an old (not sure what year) Puch 130 road that I converted into a fixed with some free parts that my buddy gave me. But... the thing is that it was my only bike. I don't have a car, so I used it to go everywhere for about 2 years. I can buy a new one, but for a couple weeks I am probably going to have to walk everywhere. That is actually all right with me... it is just I sometimes like to go places a like 3 am and I live in a really bad part of town, and walking through isn't the best idea. Whatever though.

Hopefully I will get my next fixed soon though. I feel weird waking up and not going for a ride heh. Thanks for your advice guys.

I have an ugly 52 cm fuji frame that's all spray painted and has a 65 crank and sealed bb if that's in your size. There's a pic in the trade section i think and it needs a new home.

No one said they should suffer, but they also shouldn't break the law and provide false information and not pay the bill they generate.

Bull****/red herring. The real problem is that we don't have a single payer system like all civilized developed countires on the planet.


There's no reason those of us with insurance should have to pay his/her bill.

Yes there is. Its called common decency. Those of us with more need to help those with less.

Rates will keep going up until employers and privately insured citizens and people who can't afford insurance all collectively say "what the **** is this ****?" and demand a single-payer system. The only people who will dissent will be HMOS, and free-market social darwinist brainwashees.

Those of us with more,need to help those with less. Isnt that called taxes? Also alot with less are waiting for us to give more.

Those of us with more,need to help those with less. Isnt that called taxes? Also alot with less are waiting for us to give more.

Yeah man, I hate those welfare mothers driving their mercedes benz's. Makes me mad. :rolleyes:

Even with all of that information, it often doesn't mean a thing. A few years ago I was on my motorcycle and got hit by a van. Van driver's fault, 100%. No trauma, but I went down and the bike took some damage. The guy looked at me...literally laughed in my face, and drove off. I got his plate number (while lying on the ground) and three drivers stopped and each of them had his plate number too, gave me their names as witnesses. Police were on the scene within minutes. They wrote it up "for the insurance", but told me not to expect any action to be taken against the driver. Said I should basically forget about it. WTF? A month later they called to say their "investigation" showed the van to be registered to a guy who turned out to be undocumented and uninsured alien who claimed that the guy driving the van that day had "went back to florida". My insurance co paid for the scooter repairs, but nothing ever done with the hit-and-run driver or owner. Something wrong with that picture.

i wouldnt forget about it,i'd want to know where that maget lives then stalk the MF'er then get my pound of flesh.

i wouldnt forget about it,i'd want to know where that maget lives then stalk the MF'er then get my pound of flesh.

+1 or at least my pound of van.

generic, tell me how it is BS that I, who has insurance, has to pay foryour health care. We have to work within the system we have at the time. If you don't like it, they work to get it changed. I work 3 damned jobs and pay a lot in taxes. How much more do I have to pay for someone else? I've seen those mom's on WIC(women, infants and children) come into Wal-Mart and b*tch and moan when they can't buy the name brand milk instead of the Wal-Mart brand that's plenty good enough for me. I work hard and intend to keep as much of my money as I can. I'll donate to the causes I see as good and help those who truly need it. There are poor in this country, but if you want to see real "poor" go to third world countries like Jamaica and other and see what real poverty is like. Most of the poor in this country are well taken care of compared to other countries so quit trying to make it sound like we abuse them. I remember transporting one man in to the hospital on an amulance I used to work. He looked perfectly healthy to me and took the ambulance instead of walking or a cab because he had "the card." Welfare that is. He was on disability and when asked what his disability was, he said "I can't read." So we are paying welfare to a perfectly healthy man because he can't read.

What almost nobody understands in the healthcare debate is how much FAT there is in our system. People always ***** about how inefficient the big bad government is, so riddle me this: how can a system like France's or Germany's, provide better care to its citizens than ours does -- and cost half as much as ours does?

Two ways. 1) A large part of the cost of a for-profit system is, unsurprisingly, profit. But although removing profit saves money the big one is that 2) Our system has HUGE administrative costs. About 15% of the cost of healthcare in the US goes, essentially, to paperwork. Because we've got thousands of different payers (insurance companies). In France, a single-payer system, adminisrative costs are 5%.

http://www.brookings.edu/fp/cusf/analysis/dutton.pdf

If we get the "socialized medicine" everyone has such a kneejerk response to, it'll actually cost less than what you pay today. And a lot of people who need medical care -- but aren't getting it now -- will be able to go to the doctor.

It's way past time for a change.

No one said they should suffer, but they also shouldn't break the law and provide false information and not pay the bill they generate. There's no reason those of us with insurance should have to pay his/her bill.

Those of you with insurance won't; everyone uninsured who provides a real name will. Those of us who are uninsured have to pay 3 times as much for our service as the insurance companies pay for your service... an imbalance which hardly provides a strong moral platform for the health-care industry to argue from...

Edited to provide an example: I went in to the ER recently to get some stitches put in my hand. My bill for five stitches, about a 30 minute visit, came to $1,400 and change. The billing administrator I've been working with while I figure out how to pay that bill, which represents a significant amount of money to me, told me flat out that an insurance company would pay $316 for one of their members to recieve the same treatment (and the hospital would also collect whatever the co-pay might be - on my previous insurance plan, the ER copay would have been $50, for a $366 total for services rendered). How does that make sense exactly? I'd happily pay $366 if that's the standard rate, but I think it's a crime that I'm getting hit for four times that number simply because I'm unlucky enough to be out of work...

Yeah man, I hate those welfare mothers driving their mercedes benz's. Makes me mad. :rolleyes:

Think its not true,i work in the poor side of long beach and most are driving top of the line new stuff.

If the middle people hate on the little people, the big people get bigger.

Bull****/red herring. The real problem is that we don't have a single payer system like all civilized developed countires on the planet.



Yes there is. Its called common decency. Those of us with more need to help those with less.

Rates will keep going up until employers and privately insured citizens and people who can't afford insurance all collectively say "what the **** is this ****?" and demand a single-payer system. The only people who will dissent will be HMOS, and free-market social darwinist brainwashees.

social darwinism, thank you. i should have thought of that. that's a root of many attitudes i hate, though the philosophy itself isn't much active or in vogue anymore, it's got a lot of progeny out there ****ing things up for the people who are already on the bottom.

i'd really hope not that this system continues and people who can't pay for medical care continue to have to choose between not getting the help they need or driving up others insurance costs, but rather that it could be reformed so that everyone can get what they need.

it's not so much i think you have any responsibility toward anyone else, though i'd like to think most people care about their fellow man...but the reality of the situation is that a poor person who really needs attention has a pretty ****ty choice and i know what i'd do, and if you were in that position, you probably would do it, too...on that end of things, it has nothing to do with insurance or politics or anything else--it's just a simple matter of "i'm hurt/sick. i need help." other things become greatly diminished in importance at that point.

Damn dood. Two cyclist getting hit and posting on SS/BF. Friday the 13th??? I'm staying inside and watch me a DeeVeeDee.

Whoever treated your wounds didn't have a soul if they knew that you didn't have insurance. When I had a deep cut in my foot the doctor recommend putting sutures that evaporated after the wound healed so that I won't need to come back to have a Dr. cut them up later. He saved me some serious money since I didn't have insurance : I had to pay $440.

Everyone who is not insured: A. Get Insurance Pronto! B. If you are going to the ER. Tell your doctor that you do NOT have insurance! This way, they can figure out the cheapest why to treat you. If you don't tell them, they will assume that you have insurance and rack up a nice fat hospital bill to help pay for their fifth Lexus sedan.

531phile. Be safe Brothas and Sistas.



Those of you with insurance won't; everyone uninsured who provides a real name will. Those of us who are uninsured have to pay 3 times as much for our service as the insurance companies pay for your service... an imbalance which hardly provides a strong moral platform for the health-care industry to argue from...

Edited to provide an example: I went in to the ER recently to get some stitches put in my hand. My bill for five stitches, about a 30 minute visit, came to $1,400 and change. The billing administrator I've been working with while I figure out how to pay that bill, which represents a significant amount of money to me, told me flat out that an insurance company would pay $316 for one of their members to recieve the same treatment (and the hospital would also collect whatever the co-pay might be - on my previous insurance plan, the ER copay would have been $50, for a $366 total for services rendered). How does that make sense exactly? I'd happily pay $366 if that's the standard rate, but I think it's a crime that I'm getting hit for four times that number simply because I'm unlucky enough to be out of work...

Well the ones that come across the boarder get better med then my poor mom does.

Well the ones that come across the boarder get better med then my poor mom does.


Spelling police: BORDER. A "boarder" is one who eats (and generally sleeps) at a boarding school. Now what was your point?

Unless you are indian at one point your ancestors came to this country. Actually, even they did supposedly. So pretty much everyone came here. You know, like "those" people want to do. So uh, forgive em.

And not to derail this thread, still hope for the best with your bike and what not. At one point this forum used to do some pretty kewl things to help out people who lost bikes.

But that was so last year. This year we talk ****.

The difference between "those" people and most of our ancestors is that our ancestors came over legally and not illegally. I have no problems with legal aliens, but think all illegal aliens should be returned to their country of origin.