Breakdown recovery advice/recommendations

Hope this is the right section for this question but any one recommend a good bike recovery company?

ideally I'd like to have the bike and car covered by the same deal but primary concern is for the best bike support (car is an obvious second )

Any advice?

www.nci-online.co.uk get my vote

had to use em a coupla times,

very good and only send out bike realted ppl!

cheap too!

I've just got RAC cover for my car and bike, Home start, accident, breakdown and recovery. Not had to use them yet, but £80 ish for the year i didn't think was to bad, wish i had it before when it cost me £55 to get my bike recovered when i trashed it last month.

I use NCI, very go on the few occasions I have had to call them.

My last bike was a shed of an XJ900 and I had RAC cover which got called out allot and I got sick of them turning up and saying "oh, it's a bike" and them never having the ability to transport my bike anywhere if they couldn't fix it, which happened a few times. Once when I borrowed my sisters SV before I got mine I got a puncture and called the RAC told them it was a bike and I had a screw in the rear tyre, I was then promptly asked do I have a spare with me!

NCI have came out twice to the XJ and Once to the SV every time they have either fixed it or been able to transport me and the bike back home.

We've got RAC personal cover, covers the person in/on any vehicle.

Cost nothing using Tesco Clubcard vouchers.

Had to use it once on the bike and they turned up with a bike trailer to get me home. Once in the car following an accident, it took them hours to get a recovery truck to me.

On balance its ok and it costs me nothing.

uh-oh... I've got RAC and have been assuming they'll sort bike stuff just as well as car stuff... they don't sound too good when it comes to bikes

Not tried the AA, RAC were pretty useless as they always tend to send a normal recovery vehicle first who never know anything about bikes and then call a recovery vehicle which a trailer...

4 hours in the pouring rain on the a406 isn't fun !!

Had reasonable service from an insurance company one but can't remember the name, Heard alot of good things about nci and will use them next

I've had AA cover most of my biking life and have not had a problem with them. The one year I took the cover you get with the insurance I got S.O.S and they were very good plus it only cost me £15 for the whole year might be worth a look to see who your insurance group deal with

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

uh-oh... I've got RAC and have been assuming they'll sort bike stuff just as well as car stuff... they don't sound too good when it comes to bikes

Personally I wouldn't go with RAC again if you paid me, especially when they left me stranded when they refused to come out because I couldn't pay the extra fee (nearly £40 and I didn't have my credit card with me) as they said I had gone over my call out limit but I had been told I had one left, it was 1am and they suggested calling my folks and getting them to pay! I had to leave the bike where it was and call a taxi.

NCI get my vote too

not used them but for what i've heard and the price...can't grumble