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Question Insurance for touring outside the EU
Does anybody know who provides motorbike insurance for touring outside the EU?
Specifically: Former Yugoslavian Republic, and Ukraine.
I have tried all the usual bike insurance brokers in the UK.
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If you cannot find someone to insure you from the UK it is available at the borders of these countries but if you can get it at home it will probably be cheaper.
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Ask for green card insurance.

it covers all of this countries.
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talk to Dooby, he's a member, and who i use for greencard for the balkans, Lobagola MotoTours | expedition off road tours, insurance, storage, freight, dooby is cool, easy to work with and always happy to help.
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Hello Chris:

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See this post: Balkans Insurance - Here's the story, with details & sample documents.

The post is a few years old, but to the best of my knowledge, the information in it is still current.

Basically, you buy the insurance as you cross the border into each of the various former Yugoslavian countries. Same for Ukraine.

If you live in the EC, first try contacting your existing insurance company to see if they can add cover for some or all of the countries you plan to visit - it will likely be less expensive to get the coverage added to your existing policy (and get a new green card showing the extended coverage) than it will be to buy insurance as you cross the border into each country.

But, if your current insurer can't offer that, just buy country-by-country coverage as you enter.

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I am very grateful for all the advice, and the speed of response.

I have rented a lot of bikes locally all over Asia, Africa and South America, but I have never taken a bike of my own outside the geographical limits apparently imposed by all UK insurers (essentially the EU and the 4 other signatories to the EU Motor Insurance Directive). I think I have spoken to every major broker and most of the significant UK insurers.
So it hadn’t occurred to me that it might be easy and quick (even if not necessarily cheap) to buy insurance on a pay-as-you-go basis at the borders.

BTW: I have just had that advice corroborated by the leader of a group of bikers I ran across in Armenia last September. They had come from Spain, Iran, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. If it worked for all of them I am confident it will for me (lifelong UK resident with EU nationality) on a UK registered bike.
On that basis I am ready to take the plunge if and when the borders start to re-open.

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Thanks again everyone. Lots of good advice there.
I won’t have a fixed itinerary, or any deadlines, so I am increasingly confident this is going to happen - whenever the borders re-open.
I will be hoping for comprehensive insurance, but if I can only get the legal minimum that will have to do.
Time is running out for me to achieve this lifelong ambition!
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I will be hoping for comprehensive insurance, but if I can only get the legal minimum that will have to do.
There is no insurance company and will never be that provides comprehensive coverage that includes the case of theft outside EU.
Axa is little by little pulling out of the rest of the market as well.

Take that into consideration when making the framework for the plan of such journey.

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