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http://www.navigatortravel.co.uk/
Try these; I used them this year after reading on the HUBB that others had good experiences. Their cover is good, and reasonably priced.
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[QUOTE=kentfallen;435567]
Seems pretty daft why bikes are treated in this way.
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It doesn't seem so daft when you spend a bit of time chatting with those whose business it is to hire out motorcycles/scooters in various holiday resorts.
Such conversation is very informative about how idiotic folks can be while on vacation.
(+ the fastest 4 wheel vehicle on the planet is a hire car).
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You'll have read about suchlike in the "trip paperwork" forum rather than in the pub.
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When I lived in Indonesia for a year, I read that the number one cause of death and/or injury for foreigners was motorcycle or scooter accidents.
Lots of people who think they know how to ride a scooter rent one for a day, and then get in over their head on unknown roads with an unfamiliar vehicle.
I'm not at all surprised that most insurance coverage considers it a dangerous activity for most travellers - they're right!
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Try the AA, I've a European travel insurance policy that's OK with motorcycling (large bikes) and I assume their worldwide policies are similar. I notice that on several posts you mention your previous life as a policeman yet you openly discuss the option of making fraudulent insurance claims. Tut, tut!
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I notice that on several posts you mention your previous life as a policeman yet you openly discuss the option of making fraudulent insurance claims. Tut, tut!
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I'm now an EX copper (23 years). I'm no longer required to take notice of UNFAIR/UNJUST laws and practices designed by the rich to DUMP on the innocent majority.
The media is full of stories where riders have been lured into a policy only to find the insurance company spends more time and effort inventing reasons not to pay out, than concluding the claim!  In my book that's THEFT too (certainly a breach of contract).
The REAL reason why policies are increasing in cost is = Invented claims (accidents which never took place at all or were engineered). This has been a widespread problem in the North of England with Asian gangs inventing accidents.
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I'm no longer required to take notice of UNFAIR/UNJUST laws and practices
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Really? That sounds a tad like a recipe for anarchy - picking and choosing for yourself what laws are applicable to the individual.
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This has been a widespread problem in the North of England with Asian gangs inventing accidents.
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The BBC ran a documentary on this matter a short while ago and there wasn't an Asian face in sight on that docu. The basic facts of that case are:-
Sixty guilty in crash-for-cash scams | UK news | theguardian.com
It was a complete racket, for a lot of people living in a small village.
Maybe this scam would work better in Goa, particularly if it were perpetrated by those with "local, Asian faces"??
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Nice to see that you still uphold some of the standards you developed in the force though. "Institutionalised Racism" seems to ring a bell, coupled with your south-eastern distrust of anything north of the Dartford crossing.
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