Who hasn't got Accident and Breakdown recovery?

[dyzio]

My first 2 years on the SV, I didn't have one (newb), bought one before the euro trip for ~£60.

The Prilia's insurance came with breakdown cover, not sure about accidents but it's parked now and I'll need new insurance before I start riding again.

I'd add, if you're insuring your bike online, it's good to give the best 2-3 brokers a call, they may come up with extras not mentioned on the web, that's how I got mine.

Got my own personal recovery service - known as my OH - will come anywhere, anytime night or day to rescue me
mind you very rarely need him to as he lavishes so much tlc on the bike

[timwilky]

My insurance is through A quote. They specifically say they will recover after an accident and use RAC.

My only experiences of recovery was where I was hit from behind at a red light and called bennetts. Their recovery came after about 2 hours and was a man in a van with a bike trailer to take me home. And when my mate dropped his R6 in the middle of nowhere I had to ride 5 miles down the road to get a mobile signal to phone the AA, after about 3 hours a man arrived the AA had sent a local recoverer from 40 miles away. I have been trying to phone you he say. Guess what mate mobiles don't work round here

Did my fisrt year without... Silly really as i live in warrington.. North west england. ANd was as far south as cornwall, as as far north as Fort william almost. Thats a long way to push the bike home...

However When the insurance renewal come in i got to work with the old gift of the gab and got Euro breakdown added... with a bit of banter i gor the monthly price down so much that it only cost me 10p extra pm from origional renew price. There was too many slight issues on the GM II to risk anything else like that without it....

Granted it was the curveys that were having problems.... (runs and hides)

Dave

I'm covered

The nice guy from the RAC helped me drag my pointy round the side of the house too

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by DaveP

Granted it was the curveys that were having problems.... (runs and hides)

Dave

So Badgers totally nadgered bike was a curvy?

On topic:- I have always had recovery as I run a family membership with the RAC. Never needed it on the bike *touches wood*

I only had breakdown cover when I crashed, but managed to get recovered anyway. Now I'm covered for accidents too now, its definitely worth having.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

What if you live in Scotland and breakdown in England? What if that's only Carlisle to Dumfries? Can you post up what the T&C's say? I can't wait to see what wording the money grabbers have come up with for this one!

Sorry, might have put that across confusingly; it's not to do with the england/scotland divide it's purely 'cause you're a long way from home. Speaking to the RAC about their £100+ 'top package':

them: With the top package you get 6 callouts, 4 homestarts and we'll recover you to wherever you want to go; your destination, home or a garage which ever's closest

me: sorry, what was that last bit you said, whichever's closest? What if I'm on my way home from scotland or soemwhere miles away and breakdown, but want to get home - would you take me the rest of the way?

them: why would you want to do that? you'd want to get to a garage to get it fixed blah blah etc.

They irritated me because 1) for that amount of money that's not practical at all 2)he tried to snidely get it past me by saying it quietly and quickly 3) he back tracked and tried to argue that that scenario would never happen. I told him exactly why it would happen and obviously knew the sales pitch had gone down the crapper when he weakly said 'well you can put all sorts of variables in there'.

Didn't try AA but thought it'd be the same game, and I've heard thye don't recover you in an accident.

My carol nash insurance seeminglycoversme for accident recovery and breakdown. Ididnt really think about it when I had my accident...the bike was broken and it was down, if thats not a break down i dunno what is

[keith_d]

I'm thinking about getting recovery cover. With two bikes and a car it's only a matter of time before one of them goes wrong.