Hitchcocks Forum

hi one and all,insurance time has rolled in again,footman james has passed my business to bike team insurance (whoooo!) as they no longer do modern bikes aledgedly the quote is good £20 cheaper than last year on the diesel although grunda cost £30 last year its now £98 ffs,anyway grunda,s for sale though not yet sold someone will get a bargain,just can,t understand f.j as members in our club have been insuring modern bikes recently with them ,must go to confused .com more tea vicar?

Insurance companies need sorting out, I'm sure that quotes are pulled out of a hat. I specifically joined the REOC last year to get a 'competitive club quote' only to find it was far more expensive then my current insurer. Grund, have a look at the Money Saving Expert site for some useful tips and guidance.

cheers midge the problem is that i joined the reoc in part for the insurance deals haha and then 2 years latter got shafted by fj who have given my biz to a group of turnips ,titter ye not!

My renewal just in from Just Motorcycle Insurance (part of carole nash group, I got the lead originally through Confused.com) - £64.93 TPFT - less than last year, I guess because I have now got 1 years no claims. I haven't checked any others yet, but sounds OK to me.

I've used Bennetts the last couple of years. They've just quoted me £68 fully comp for my due-to-arrive-any-day-now '63 Triumph Tiger 90. I'm not even going to bother trying to beat that.

For me, insurance is a real irritation. I can go to the likes of meerkatsupermarket.com, punch in my numberplate and it always back as "Invalid"! Yet, I can check the DVLA website and it comes back as 'hunky-dory'. Further investigation showed that insurance companies link the registration number with the model of bike. According to insurance companies, the 500 Lightning doesn't exist.

Hi guys----- Give PETER JAMES INSURANCE a go----------but they ALL have now cottoned-on to this shark behaviour of charging an "Admin fee, Sir" each time you want to add a new machine on to your list. Usually about £30 or so.

on the up these bike team insurance co don,t seem to charge an admin fee its not on the quote

---------- no matey, it won't be until later on you try and add another machine. Here's a thought}---If as they say the "Admin Fee" ( for example let's call it £30 ) is to research a bike or bikes new to them----then surely when you first go to that Broker the first quote they give you must have that element included in it--right ?? Because they will have researched your machine or machines that are new to them. So therefore 12 months later the quote for the next year---asssuming all is still the same--- will now NOT have that £30 in it because there was NO RESEARCH to do !! Doesn't happen though, does it ?? Rip-off Britain, alive and well !!