1500+ Euro worth of damage on my Aprilia Tuareg with no fault of mine

Feeling dumb because I have Hepco & Becker crash bars lying around that I did not find time to mount. They would have saved me from all this drama.

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Update - Fall (no fault of mine!)

So an !d!ot in my apartment parked toppled my bike. I have no idea for how long it was lying on the ground! No clue if someone was trying to just sit on it for fun, or if someone was trying to be intentionally malicious. Or worse if it was a foiled robbery attempt.

I initially thought that it was just the handguard that broke along with some scratches to the fairing and a bit of fuel that had leaked out. Handguards were anyway due to be replaced with Barkbusters and I could live with a bit of scratches on the side fairing. I tried starting it after a couple of days, I found that the bike ran for 30 seconds and then died. I tried 2-3 times cranking it not realizing that fuel has completely leaked out. On opening the tank I saw that there was no fuel, so I had to call my insurance to send a tow truck (I can't get fuel in bottles around here).

When I started filling the fuel I realized that it was leaking from the side it had fallen! So in the same tow truck, I took it to the dealer. They got back to me a day later saying that it was a crack in the tank and it had to be replaced and it cost a cool 1500€ to replace. (1300€ is the part price).

Feeling dumb because I have Hepco & Becker crash bars lying around that I did not find time to mount and would have saved me all this drama. Also, feeling pissed that it fell due to no fault of mine and all this even before I could get the first service of 1K kms done. While insurance picks up the tab, I still have excess to pay and also considering this is my first year of insurance in this country, my premiums will certainly take a hit next year.

So now I am waiting for the parts to arrive and to be mounted along with the completion of the first service and hopefully collect the bike next week sometime.

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