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08-11-17, 02:57 PM | #21 | |
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Re: What's with bike insurance this year?!
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That is not a high premium. Not even remotely. Might be for the mountains of Scotland, mind you!
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https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...e-out-of-reach
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09-11-17, 10:23 AM | #24 | |
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Listen, it's a given that varying postcodes have higher insurance premiums. Crime rates rise and fall. I can tell you, for example, that the postcode where my mum lives is virtually crime free - checking the crime statistic database confirms that. When looking at your linked website, it claims my mum's postcode is among the higher risk. I can also tell you that I've insured my SV650 with zero no claims (all tied up in my other three bikes), TPFT for £75 a year from there. The same bike at my own house would cost me circa £400 - the latter being one letter different on the risk factor according to your website. So, like I said, pinch of salt. It's not as simple as the insurers looking at that laughably low-brow website and forming a chunk of the premium decision on that.
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09-11-17, 01:12 PM | #25 |
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Re: What's with bike insurance this year?!
Just this morning I had the chat with CIA insurance about my renewal. I have fully comp, with two named riders and eight years no claims for £112, which given that I am now registered as a disabled rider and have more mods on my bike than you can shake a stick at, is damn reasonable. There is finally a benefit to being an over forty women living in boring town!
I have been using CIA for over six years now, probably longer, following a compare the S**tbags website that gave me a quote for MCE that seemed reasonable at the time. The amount of trouble I went through with MCE (that ended with me making a formal complaint through the FSO) was so awful, I vowed never to use them again. Some one on here recommended CIA to me and I have never had a problem with them, even when I was involved in an accident where I was hit up the back side by woman in 4X4. Given that all insurance companies are the moral equivalent of vultures circling a dying child, it is nice to deal with one that is fairly ethical! |
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Re: What's with bike insurance this year?!
I've had equally poor experiences with MCE. Cheaper is not always better.
Bennetts tend to be OK, but then I've not had a claim with them, so it's hard to say until something like that happens. You know the real merit of an insurance company when you're the one at fault for an accident or have had your bike stolen, etc.
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