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over 65 travel insurance
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Looking for holiday cover on a bike over 750 cc, but am now 65 does anyone know a company that could help, UK citizen
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I just use an Eh1C in europe.... those are free, leastwise mine was.
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A few credit card companies provide free travel/health insurance when you book tickets through their travel services - AMEX and Visa come to mind.
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Try Carole Nash - I'm 61 and on the road right now. They use AXA. They have just extended our insurance for another 6 months but I hear they may be limiting this in future.
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Hi
Thanks for the replies, got what I wanted from Direct Line,needed to ring them, but the young lady on the phone could not have been more helpfull. Seems the internet site still says " under 125 cc only" but that is no longer true
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I just use an Eh1C in europe.... those are free, leastwise mine was.
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Yes, gets you emergency medical treatment but wont get you home. If you break your back then relying on an EH1C will leave you a bit short of a few thousand euros.
This is not scaremongering either - I am an insurance broker by profession and do know of a case where exactly this happened and the guy had to remortgage his house to raise the funds to get an air ambulance home.
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Seems the internet site still says " under 125 cc only" but that is no longer true
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Sometimes folks misread their policies - there are some that exclude bikes over 125cc but there are a lot of policies that exclude bikes over 125cc UNLESS the insured has a licence which allows the insured to ride the bigger bike.
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