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Title: Insurance
Post by: timbo on May 29, 2015, 10:33:05 PM: Just insured eight bikes fully comp, unlimited mileage for £106 with Peter James Insurance! Happy days :) Bikes are over twenty years old, but they will also insure more modern stuff too. Definitely worth a punt as nobody else even came close.
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: Oldtimer on May 31, 2015, 01:05:10 AM: Quote from: timbo on May 29, 2015, 10:33:05 PM
Just insured eight bikes fully comp, unlimited mileage for £106 with Peter James Insurance! Happy days :) Bikes are over twenty years old, but they will also insure more modern stuff too. Definitely worth a punt as nobody else even came close.
In what decade were you born? if you don't mind me asking.
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: Furry John on May 31, 2015, 08:18:12 AM: I can Second on this one, we have 9 bikes with Peter, ranging from a 2002 Honda Vtr Sp2 to a 1955 Triumph T110, 2 of the bikes are valued at £20k+ and we pay less than £400 for fully comp, recovery (often used), foreign travel and market value. Market Value is better than Agreed Value in many cases because some values rise annually. We are however of fairly advanced years.

Furry
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: timbo on May 31, 2015, 06:51:55 PM: Hi, I am of mid 1960s vintage, ie. not yet 50 :)
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: steveD on May 31, 2015, 06:55:57 PM: I'm gonna check out this Peter chappie tomorrow and see waht I can do for my little CB250RS Honda (32 yrs young!).

Will report back.

Steve
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: steveD on June 01, 2015, 02:07:05 PM: I have been in touch with Peter James Insurance and they quote £113 Fully comp for the CB250RSA (32 years old) Is that good or does anyone have other ideas or other Insurance companies that I should check out?

Steve
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: timbo on June 01, 2015, 08:38:24 PM: That's very strange Steve. I just added another bike, a 500, to my policy today for £8.12 !
Now, I'm in a large club of 250 members here that gets a discount with Peter James. The price for a single bike must be a certain amount, then the others are a small fee on top, but try elsewhere, as that sounds expensive to me.
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: Moto63 on June 02, 2015, 11:43:41 AM: Hi Tim , Steve, could it make a difference the fact that you,re based in N/I and not the mainland??, just a thought
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: timbo on June 02, 2015, 09:16:04 PM: It should work in Steve's favour, as motor insurance has always been more expensive in NI than mainland UK :-\
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: Andy M on July 07, 2015, 06:41:04 AM: West Yorkshire has close to London levels of theft and a large proportion of drivers without a licence, insurance etc. I used to be able to get a reduction for having my main address in Surrey rather than Leeds.

Andy
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: SteveC#222 on July 07, 2015, 07:29:43 AM: Your postcode can make a difference - We have a Nottingham -NG - postcode even though I'm in the middle of rural Lincolnshire. Insurence costs more here than it does in the next village- less than than 1 mile away - because they have a Lincoln LN postcode and are deemed a lower risk catagory!
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: Dick Scratcher on July 07, 2015, 07:37:43 PM: I've got an ER6F and a '80 250 RSA Honda (1500 miles limited) insured with Bennetts for £105.00.
Title: Re: Insurance
Post by: timbo on July 27, 2015, 09:31:50 PM: Ok, latest insurance news. Alison got her XBR insured with Peter James fully comp, unlimited miles, for £86. Not spectacular, but the important bit is that it covers me to ride it too. Happy days :)