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Are you so well off financially, that you'll stand to lose your brand new 2013 1200GS completely? The reason I'm asking is, that it seems extremely difficult to find anyone to insure a motor vehicle (the vehicle itself, I mean) for a complete RTW-tour.
In many 3rd world countries, if you wreck it, or it gets stolen, or drops into a river, or whatever, it is gone, and your insurance back home will be no use (at least some years ago this was the way it is, and I'm 99% certain theres been no major change).
I know it sort of belongs to this type of travel to take calculated risks. And some people are rich enough they don't care, or just simply don't care. But for me that also says try to choose a cheaper bike, because many of them will be fully capable as well. And I'm certain there will be other views than mine on this as well.
And even if nothing really bad happens to your bike on the trip, it will get more than a few scratches and look well used, when you return. So its resale value goes down, a new bike's value will naturally be worst hit by this.
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The reason I'm asking is, that it seems extremely difficult to find anyone to insure a motor vehicle (the vehicle itself, I mean) for a complete RTW-tour.
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I believe Sports Travel Insurance Quote - Get quotes for single trip, annual multi-trip and ski travel insurance from Dogtag offer RTW insurance... expensive, but not in comparison with cost of an R 1200 GS
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This seems to be for travel as in medical insurance which covers you for motorcycling not motorcycle insurance which covers your bike, as has been said I think motor insurance for the whole trip is not available from one place but has to be bought as you enter individual countries. Some cover can be had for entire continents, green card in Europe and a yellow card in Africa, whether much of this is worth the paper it is written on is a different matter but it satisfies the local police when you get stopped.
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You're absolutely right Mark and Pecha, my apologies. I was told this by Bennett's on Saturday but clearly it is only adventure activity travel insurance.
Maybe we just rely on getting it country by country - even Turkey offers it now at the border, which is very convenient and not expensive.
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