Bike insurance

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Just zis Guy said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over £600. So I either pay CTC £260 to insure about £6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.
Which is a faff.

Why not move your house insurance to one that _will_ cover
bikes over 600 quid? For example, LloydsTSB (ours is a staff
policy, but I don't have the slightest reason to believe
that that makes any difference other than price). They
didn't blink an eye over a two grand bike, modulo wanting to
have a valuation on file.

I suspect that the terms and conditions over things like
locks will be a great deal more relaxed when talking about
the all-risks extension on your house and contents than a
specialist bike policy, because in general people who have
house and contents policies are a better risk than people
living in shared and/or rented accomodation (fewer keys to
the premises, for example). Certainly mine makes no more
requirement on me than the ``reasonable care'' of the rest
of the policy.

ian

Just zis Guy said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got
my bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much
more expensive than I remember last year's being, but
my household policy (currently with a part of the
Norwich Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch
any bike over =A3600. So I either pay CTC =A3260 to
insure about =A36,=

500

Quoted message said:

worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.
Which is a faff.

Nuisance, isn't it? We ended up using CTC and it came in at
quite a=20 chunk(IIRC =A3350) for the year IIRC, which was
frankly a bit silly but w= e=20 were running out of time and
patience for alternatives.

What we did find was BoS/Halifax seemed to cover the bikes
fairly well=20 on household contents if you paid a
reasonably reasonable supplmenet, as =

well as generally a pretty good deal all round.
Unfortunately having a=20 tenant at the mo threw a major
spanner in the works with them, but we'll =

quite possibly move over to them next year when she's gone.

I was a bit underwhelmed with the CTC's offer, to be
honest. Quite why=20 only tandems get discounts I don't
understand. Apparently they used to=20 discount 'bents and
trikes too, but on the somewhat baffling grounds=20 that
they were insuring far more tandems the other class
discounts have=20 been dropped. So as it is my 8 Freight,
which sticks out like a sore=20 thumb with additional neon
*HEY, OVER HERE!* notices attached, doesn't=20 get ridden
at great speed or over awkward ground and doesn't look
like=20 an obvious joyrider's treat, costs the same to
insure as a pretty decent =

hardtail MTB from a Big Name. Preposterous, and not really
quite what I =

expected from people who ought to Know About Bikes :-(

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:03:37 +0000 (UTC), Ian G Batten
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Quoted message said:

Why not move your house insurance to one that _will_ cover
bikes over 600 quid?

Because our household policy, which we've had for several
years, is a homeworker policy primarily designed to cover
"tools of the trade" - in our case computers, books and
musical instruments, not bikes. I've asked the brokers to
look at alternatives when it comes up for renewal.

Guy
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:17:22 +0100, Peter Clinch
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Quoted message said:

my 8 Freight, which sticks out like a sore thumb with
additional neon *HEY, OVER HERE!* notices attached, doesn't
get ridden at great speed or over awkward ground and
doesn't look like an obvious joyrider's treat, costs the
same to insure as a pretty decent hardtail MTB from a Big
Name. Preposterous, and not really quite what I expected
from people who ought to Know About Bikes :-(

I can hear you writing that letter to Cotterell House
right now ;-)

Guy
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Just zis Guy said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over £600. So I either pay CTC £260 to insure about £6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.

Flippin' 'eck. We don't spend a great deal on bikes (we have
4, but the only two I'm interested in insuring were my new
Specialized hybrid, and SWMBO's Raleigh MTB), so about £600
to replace both. An order of magnitude less than your bikes,
but Direct Line charged me £15.75 to insure both for the
year on top of our household insurance.

Not exactly a linear scale, is it?

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Jeremy Collins said:

Flippin' 'eck. We don't spend a great deal on bikes (we
have 4, but the only two I'm interested in insuring were my
new Specialized hybrid, and SWMBO's Raleigh MTB), so about
£600 to replace both. An order of magnitude less than your
bikes, but Direct Line charged me £15.75 to insure both for
the year on top of our household insurance.

Direct Line doesn't want to insure bikes over £1500. And
they don't insure 'new for old', they deduct an amount for
wear and tear.

They are however much more sensible about our tenant, just
adding a clause that we're not insured if she robs or
demolishes the place.

Roos

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To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over £600. So I either pay CTC £260 to insure about £6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies. Which
is a faff.

The real nuisance here is that this is the only bit of
insurance which doesn't go through our brokers. Normally
they do all the legwork for
me. However, since I've been given a sick note and told I
have 'flu (not bloke-flu, the real thing) I suppose I
have nothing better to do with my afternoon...

Attaching bikes to your home contents' insurance is cheaper
because all those people who keep their expensive MTBs
securely in their lofts, and never use them, subsidise the
likes of us who regularly use our bikes and occasionally
have the locks cut and bike stolen while they've been left
outside the library.

Just zis Guy said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over £600. So I either pay CTC £260 to insure about £6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.
Which is a faff.

The real nuisance here is that this is the only bit of
insurance which doesn't go through our brokers. Normally
they do all the legwork for
me. However, since I've been given a sick note and told I
have 'flu (not bloke-flu, the real thing) I suppose I
have nothing better to do with my afternoon...

I've given up on bike insurance. They're covered at home,
locked with a Kryptonite New York 3000 at work and otherwise
they're never out of sight.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:19:40 +0100, in <40e054ab.0@entanet>, Zog The

Undeniable said:

I've given up on bike insurance. They're covered at home,
locked with a Kryptonite New York 3000 at work and
otherwise they're never out of sight.

The only bike I've ever had stolen was taken from me whilst
I was sitting on it! [1] Are you insured for this on your
household policy?

[1] Technically I was actually lying in the road when it
was taken.

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Just zis Guy said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over £600. So I either pay CTC £260 to insure about £6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.
Which is a faff.

The real nuisance here is that this is the only bit of
insurance which doesn't go through our brokers. Normally
they do all the legwork for
me. However, since I've been given a sick note and told I
have 'flu (not bloke-flu, the real thing) I suppose I
have nothing better to do with my afternoon...

Guy

I've said it before and I'll say it again, go to the
insurance broker in the back of the CTC magazine. They
sorted out a household policy with a major insurer with
all the bikes for a tiny fraction of what the CTC wanted
to charge.

Tony

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Ian G Batten <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
Just zis Guy, you know? <guy.chapman+usenet-

Quoted message said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over 600. So I either pay CTC 260 to insure about 6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.
Which is a faff.

Why not move your house insurance to one that _will_ cover
bikes over 600 quid? For example, LloydsTSB (ours is a
staff policy, but I don't have the slightest reason to
believe that that makes any difference other than price).
They didn't blink an eye over a two grand bike, modulo
wanting to have a valuation on file.

When LloydsTSB was trying to sell me one in 2001, they
didn't cover bikes over 600 quid, but it was up to me to
point out that he was trying to sell me a policy that
wouldn't cover either of my bikes.

A

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Ambrose Nankivell said:

When LloydsTSB was trying to sell me one in 2001, they
didn't cover bikes over 600 quid, but it was up to me to
point out that he was trying to sell me a policy that
wouldn't cover either of my bikes.

They have to be specified items on the all risks
components. I assumed that no-one would (a) mind listing
their bikes and (b) want insurance that didn't operate
outside their boundary.

ian

Roos Eisma said:

Direct Line doesn't want to insure bikes over £1500. And
they don't insure 'new for old', they deduct an amount
for wear and tear.

Makes sense; I think that's about their limit for single
items on the household insurance. They didn't mention wear
and tear deductions, though, I'll have to clairfy that. If
it's a sensible percentage then I won't mind, seeing as the
cover was so reasonable.

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Zog The Undeniable said:

I've given up on bike insurance. They're covered at home,
locked with a Kryptonite New York 3000 at work and
otherwise they're never out of sight.

Belt 'n' braces for me. I've got my favourite bike insured,
which is (almost) never out of sight. I use an old MTB for
trips into town if it's going to be "parked" for a while.

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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

To resurrect yet another perennial subject, I just got my
bike insurance renewal through from CTC. It is much more
expensive than I remember last year's being, but my
household policy (currently with a part of the Norwich
Union group, I'm told by my broker) won't touch any bike
over £600. So I either pay CTC £260 to insure about £6,500
worth of bikes, or I split them between the policies.
Which is a faff.

Guy

We just moved to the AA - they treat bikes as personal
possesions. Their basic cover means all bikes under £500
are included. If contents insured for £40k, then all bikes
under £1500 included and anything over that just needs to
be listed.

The advantage of bikes as personal possesions - five
bikes insured at no extra cost. I asked about adding the
Speedmachine (£2,000) when it arrives. We'll list it as
a valuable now, they said, because it won't cost
anything more!

So over £4,000 of bikes insured for no extra cost. Yippee

PhilO

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PhilO <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

We just moved to the AA - they treat bikes as personal
possesions.

Load of breadheads the lot of them.

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try,... </john lennon>

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Jeremy Collins said:

Roos Eisma said:

Direct Line doesn't want to insure bikes over £1500.
And they don't insure 'new for old', they deduct an
amount for wear and tear.

Isn't that what 'new for old' actually means?

AC

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anonymous coward said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

And they don't insure 'new for old', they deduct an
amount for wear and tear.

Isn't that what 'new for old' actually means?

No.

ian

anonymous coward said:

Quoted message said:

Roos Eisma said:

And they don't insure 'new for old', they deduct an
amount for wear and tear.

Quoted message said:

Isn't that what 'new for old' actually means?

No, it means if I crash my fairly well used Streetmachine
and write it off they'll pay me the cost of a new bike of
equivalent spec. Since the Streetmachine is still in
production, it would be a new Streetmachine (but with the
better Meks fork and Aheadset that's now standard) with
dynohub lighting and hydraulic brakes and full racks and
mudguards, just like my existing one.

Pete.
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