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I can only seem to find cover for 3 months abroad from any insurance company and requiring proof of departure dates (such as ferry tickets) if a claim is made.
I suggest you read earlier posts about getting 12 months UK insurance cover for riding in Europe.

In a nutshell, the brokers and their desk-bound telephone sales staff will try to offer you their standard product that produces the most profit for them viz and viz minimum effort on their part.
Locate a decent broker and it will come up with an insurance product that suits you.

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Here's a good result when using a UK based insurance broker.
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...urrently-81749

As stated therein, it is relatively straight forward to insure a bike registered in the UK, in this case using an International Driving Licence.
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Useful, helpful broker
Just a word for the UK based insurance broker shown below.
I have had excellent service from them over a number of years (for European breakdown cover), and you deal with humans by telephone - the latter are always polite and helpful and do not try to use "pressure sales" tactics.

Specialist Insurance from Graham Sykes|Buy Online

Their charges for mid-term alterations of policy details are reasonable (£10 last time I checked with them).
I have not had to make a claim at all via them, so I can't speak for that part.
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A growing practice?
Making a mid-term change of a policy (actually at the 9 month point) with one of the large UK brokers and doing this by telephone, it was stated that there was no refund due for the bit of the policy that would no longer be in force and that no charge would be made for this service.
(the broker terms and conditions say that they could charge up to £50 for such adjustments).
The confirmation email with the new policy attached (it being a multi-bike policy it remains in overall force) shows that there is a refund due and that the charge for making the change of policy is exactly the same amount, to the penny, including appropriate statement of the taxation that is involved.
Funny that.

I suspect that this is becoming a growing, standard practice; I will shop around for yet another broker at next renewal and I see that the website for ebike is back in business with a new "skin" as their "front of house".
It may be that ebike are now semi-automated with some business such as quotes done over the internet and other aspects covered by call centres.
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Cheapest VIN insurance
Anyone know the cheapest company to use when insuring a bike against the VIN number? I don't need the insurance to be for long (only long enough to register the bike in the UK). I have passed the MSVA and will have an MOT by that point but any quotes for VIN insurance have been mad high!

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