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07-04-08, 09:33 AM | #1 |
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Insurance - Not your normal insurance type post.
My insurance is due this month and I have been looking around.
Whilst looking around one company on the phone said, 'this policy does not cover you on trackdays or any other road/race circuits and that includes the nurburgring and Isle of man' I thought ok thats normal I guess, but then thought hold on a second, the ring and the isle of man are public general use roads, surely they cant say they arnt insuring you on normal roads? Surely that also means that the thousands of riders who go to the IOM every year and have similar statements in the small print without knowing are riding without insurance unintentionaly. EDIT: I checked my current policy for the year just gone and its got a similar statement. |
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07-04-08, 10:30 AM | #4 |
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If it says it won't cover you on the IOM then that will be at ANY time. It's lame but if you have an accident there just pootling to the post office you won't be covered.
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the wording here is pretty important. If as above it says a road/race circuit then thats the case. When the roads are not closed it is not a road/race circuit.
I'm pretty sure the intent here is to insure you when roads are used as normal public roads but it would be interesting to get clarification. Nurburgring is different though isnt it as it is a permanent circuit and not used for normal roads. |
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There was an article in MCN about this last year. Probably the one story that was actually true and useful! From memory, most of the insurers provided cover for the Isle of Man, but excluded any accidents on Mad Sunday as they classed the road as a race track for that day.
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