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North America Insurance Uk residents
OK All.
Next question this time about insurance
We need to obtain short term ish insurance (4 months) for the first part of are North to South America trip. Leaving in June we will be travelling 2 up on a BMW 1100GS and need to obtain bike insurance for USA and Canada we are both UK residents
Any Ideas, contacts, phone or web sites would be very welcome
Thanks
Brian
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Try Progressive insurance at progressive.com (if memory serves me well!)
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hi mate hope your planning is going well.
i searched prices for a while but by far the easiest seems to be at
Welcome to the H-C Travel Home Page - The World's Best Motorcycle Holidays they seem competitive and very easy. Go to their page, click on shipping and us insurance is at the bottom there and goes through all they can offer you
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Originally Posted by pottsy
Try Progressive insurance at progressive.com (if memory serves me well!)
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I agree - I've used Progressive for both the bike I bought here last year (as a UK tourist) and my current bike which is UK registered - either way Progressive will insure you/your bike no problems, as long as you have a US address for the paperwork (and technically is the 'base' where the bike is kept).
One other thing, they don't offer monthly policies, only an annual policy - however, you can pay this monthly (eg. via Direct Debt from a US bank account) and cancel it at any time with no penalty...
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This looks perfect Graham!
Sorry to butt in on your post but I have a similar question- to which I have already found half the answer. I'll be buying a bike in El Paso and driving over the border in to Mexico a few days later. Thanks to Graham I've found out how to get insurance for the couple of hours US travel to the border. Once in Mexico / Belize / all other countries in Latin America how do you then go about getting the bike insured for the appropriate country? Can you indeed get it all sorted at the immigration checkpoints?
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Hi People, with regard to US insurance for people transiting the US/Canada leg of a north to south or vice versa on a UK registered moto with a UK licence finding a "US base" which is necessary for companies such as Progressive makes the policy as far as I can see nul and void and this would mean that in the case of a accident, worthless. I would be interested to hear from anyone that has used this system and has had the need to make a claim. In addition, how does one contact these companies by e-mail as a required field entry is a zip code. The price charged by companies like Motorcycle express is excessive so how can one get a normal priced insurance without telling porkies? Ride safe.
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