Hi

Well its been some time since I have ridden a bike. My last bike was a Kawasaki GPz 750, 17 years ago there abouts. I spotted recently the new Yamaha MT01 and really took to its styling, big twin engine and all that low down torque.

I have phoned quite a few insurance companies and most just say that they are unable to quote. So i thought i would try yamaha's own insurance quotation website. It came back with two quotes one for £1800 and the other, are you ready £10800. The bike is supposed to retail at £9500 with group 14 insurance.

I am 40yrs( midlife crisis creeping in, born again biker) old with no convictions and donkeys years of no claims bonus with cars.

Am I that big a risk, to not get a decent quote?

Will I have to start with a small bike and build a fews years of bonus before going back to a big bike?

Has anybody else had a similar experience?



Andy

Yep, 'lost' my motorcycle NCD as I had 3 years off so got treated as a newbie.

The only company that would cover me on the big stuff was Zenith, and Carole Nash and Motorcycle Direct were the best brokers IMO.

Still £1k+ though so don't think it's gonna be cheap!

Cheers!

Phil

I ended up with Hastings Direct as, after five years ona fleet policy, no-one would give me a sensible quote on my GSXR750. And that despite my pretty good (reatively) claims history.

£965 fully comp. Not least down to having a postcode shared with pikeys and chavs :(

SB

I ended up with Hastings Direct as, after five years ona fleet policy, no-one would give me a sensible quote on my GSXR750. And that despite my pretty good (reatively) claims history.

£965 fully comp. Not least down to having a postcode shared with pikeys and chavs :(

SBtry calling h and r insurance in aberdeen iv got zx6r and scooby through them no-one could get me cheaper quotes and they are always very helpful