Sorry to hear about your wreck DJ, but glad to see that you were not injured. The parts/damage quote on my old red R was about the same and they decided to total it out.
Your dealer will make the bike right. I just hope that the eggheads here in do not succeed in introducing light rail/trams in town. Those pavement transitions look like bad juju.
Today it was my turn to go down...bugger!
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DJ:
Havent been on for quite sometime due to workload and just read what happened to you.
Really sorry to hear about your spill. Glad to know you and the biker are ok.
Having been a victim of an accident last January also on similar road conditions as yours, I know how you feel. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for me, I dislocated my right shoulder. But after a couple of months or so of rehab, Im now back on the saddle.
Take care mate!
Havent been on for quite sometime due to workload and just read what happened to you.
Really sorry to hear about your spill. Glad to know you and the biker are ok.
Having been a victim of an accident last January also on similar road conditions as yours, I know how you feel. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for me, I dislocated my right shoulder. But after a couple of months or so of rehab, Im now back on the saddle.
Take care mate!
It aint over til it's over!
Oddly, we older riders know the abovementioned phenomena of wheels wanting to follow grooves/ridges/tracks in the road as "tramlining". What a coincidence 
There were very few tramlines left in Sydney nearly 40 years ago when I started riding , and I never rode in Melbourne. Though I can remember my father telling me how easy they were to come off on, did it on the old Indian. Always liked bikes with little inclination to tramline, though the real thing, in the wet, will really test you. As the man said, try to cross at as sharp an angle as you can manage, and as upright as you can. And hope your karma is in credit... 
There were very few tramlines left in Sydney nearly 40 years ago when I started riding , and I never rode in Melbourne. Though I can remember my father telling me how easy they were to come off on, did it on the old Indian. Always liked bikes with little inclination to tramline, though the real thing, in the wet, will really test you. As the man said, try to cross at as sharp an angle as you can manage, and as upright as you can. And hope your karma is in credit...