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Chaos_Warrior
, 1st December 2010 at 19:59 (1104 Views)
Hello again, it's your friendly naive Englander here again asking all of you who read this for your assistance and forsight with stuff i know nothing about, well, not as much as i would like to know anyway.
Me and the Wife were out doing stuff today in preparation for the arrival of my Aprilia RSV1000 Mille which we are hoping to pick up from the customs people in mid December and decided to pop into the AA to get an insurance quote, (oooops!).
Thinking that as the car is insured with them that we might get a bit of a discount, and also that as i have just had notification from the UK that as i am now an Advanced Motorist and that AA are offering discounts on insurance we were keeping our fingers crossed for a healthy price.
Well ! were we in for a shock ! as we were REFUSED a quote, as apparently the make of my motorcycle is one that is on their list of makes that they refuse to insure, i managed to get a quick glimpse of said list and sure enough Aprilia was there, along with other makes such as Harley Davidson, Triumph, Victory in a list of about a dozen makes, his exact words were " we do not offer insurance to such high powered sports bikes as we are not experts with motorcycle insurance ".
I explained to him that my Aprilia would be landing in NZ then being ridden to a local dealer where we would be trading it in on a 2007 Honda CBR1000rr Fireblade, so would they insure the Honda, to which he said yes !
Now i know i am going to upset a lot of people here, but ! the Fireblade is definately faster than the Aprilia, and to say that they would be prepared to insure Honda's and Yamaha's, with their R1's and Blades, probably two of the groundbreaking sports bikes of their age, but not " high powered sports bikes " like Harley's Triumph's and Victory's, when they would be buried by a Blade or R1, is quite laughable, well it would be if you were not after a bloody insurance quote !
So, my learned online natives of this fair and gorgeous land, my question to you all is :- Where the hell do i go for the best insurance deal ! Please.
Any help / advise would be most gratefully appreciated, once you have sewn your sides up from reading this of course.
Cheers,
Chaos.

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  1. steelphoenix's Avatar
    Yeah, this is correct - AA don't insure a whole list of different makes; nor do they insure anyone with anything less than a 6F licence (which I was not pleased with, I assure you).

    Aprilia, Buell, Ducati, and MotoGuzzi are a few that I can remember.
  2. Chaos_Warrior's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by steelphoenix
    Yeah, this is correct - AA don't insure a whole list of different makes; nor do they insure anyone with anything less than a 6F licence (which I was not pleased with, I assure you).

    Aprilia, Buell, Ducati, and MotoGuzzi are a few that I can remember.
    Yeah, seems a bit daft when R1's Blade's and gixer thou's all fit in their yes category, fools
    Cheers.
    Chaos.