Borrowing a trailer/van/someone with any bike insurance
 

Hey guys, Thought I'd put a message in here too, as Essex is not too far from me and I really need some help :(

I'm trying, desperately to sell my bike, but having successfully sold it on ebay, I got messed around by the buyer who after arranging a time to pick it up, never appeared and stopped replying to all messages/emails etc. And because ebay now protects all buyers, he has got away with it.

Now this has put me in a really awful position because i was selling my bike with a months MOT and now it only has about 2 and a half weeks left, and I cant get a new MOT because the bike is SORN'd so has no insurance and no tax.

The bike is already hard to sell because I still have the restrictors in and cant afford to have them taken out, and it will be even harder to sell now if it doesnt have an MOT.

Does anyone have a bike trailer or a van I could borrow or even 3rd party insurance and could help me out with getting it to a garage to get a new MOT? I'd of course pay costs and all that stuff, I just cant even ride it myself because all of my bike gear (helmets, leathers, gloves, boots etc, is up in Sheffield as as I was selling it I didnt think I'd have any need to bring it down for the holidays), and it would cost me about £60 in petrol or £60 in train fare just to go get it.

If anyone could help me, that would be fantastic. Thank so much

Re: Borrowing a trailer/van/someone with any bike insurance
 

You could be in for a pain here as far as riding the bike is concerned.

As far as I know most (I'm not definatly saying ALL) insurance policies that cover you to ride/drive another vehicle on a third party cover state that the vehicle being ridden/driven has to have some sort of insurance on it already.

E.g. Squirrel Hunter is riding my BlackBird around, but his insurance only allow this cover because I have my own policy already on the bike.

You could book it in for the MOT and then get it insured for the day you need it ridden to the test station.

Re: Borrowing a trailer/van/someone with any bike insurance
 

Gracie, some of our local garages will come and collect the bike in a van and MOT it, they charge an additional £30 on top of the MOT fee. May be worth calling some bike dealers to see if they will?

Re: Borrowing a trailer/van/someone with any bike insurance
 

As has been said before, if you don't already have insurance on it, most personal policies won't cover anyone regardless of what their policy says.

If you did have insurance then I wouldn't mind taking it for an MOT...

Re: Borrowing a trailer/van/someone with any bike insurance
 

**** that, you can sell it without an MOT.
I've done it before just say you'll pay for an MOT and if it fails on anything you'll have it back. It's not an issue for a genuine buyer...coming from a genuine seller.