Just starting to get organised for a 6 month trip to UK and Mediterranean Europe next year.
One, of many, things I'm finding tricky to find out is which companies will insure our bike (not the Green Card insurance, the actual bike) while it is overseas. Does anyone know of any Australian or OS companies that deal with such insurance? Would appreciate a point in the right direction, particularly from anyone else from Oz who did this. Thanks!

I am sure there is a guy from OZ on a ST1300 that travelled Europe a few years ago

He did a large blog so it might be on google somewhere or he can be found on ST-owners.com

I shall have a search and see if I can find him.

Peter


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I am pretty confident that this is the guy


http://ozstoc.com/index.php?topic=1681.0

Peter.


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Thanks Peter! I'll give this person a shot.

Try https://www.hertsinsurance.com/walkabout.php

Thanks Roger. I had a look at their site. Seems they specialise in insuring vans but I have emailed them my query, so we'll see what they have to say. Starting to think this is mission impossible. Might be easier to 'insure' our bike with a Doberman!
Melanie

Generally speaking, insurance companies only insure for areas they are in operation ... for that's where they can chase people up who are at fault and sue them if need be.

If you are trying to insure a bike for when it is in Europe, you basically have to do it in Europe, or contact a European insurer. Australian companies are generally unlikely to have specialist lawyers who know European insurance law, and can draft up policies to cover issues occurring in Europe. If they do have some, then its likely to be very expensive as all the documentation will have to customised and double checked by lawyers, just for you.

Whereas European insurers have standard form European insurance law compliant documentation.

If there is a claim, the insurance company has to spend a lot of time and do a lot of paperwork to chase it up. To do that from Australia, when there will be no specialist knowledge of the legal processes, is going to be a massive pain the A (and risk) for any Australian business to underwrite. It can always be done of course, but its unlikely to be economically viable unless they have very good partners or affiliates in Europe.

Your best bet is to contact European insurers directly. Uk insurers dont seem to have a problem insuring foreign registered vehicles, or even unregistered vehicles. Most give quotes online. And any European issued insurance is valid for the entire EU.

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Oh THANK YOU TourInsure! Seems I have found what I was looking for. I will definitely get a quote for the trip our bike is taking us on, and we'll see how it fits within our budget.

Hi Rols n Mel - I'm in a similar boat but looking for coverage in the middle east. Companies in oz basically laughing at me on the phone.

I'd be keen to hear how you go, and if its not too rude, how much Tourinsure charge you. I requested a quote from them last week, but haven't heard anything back yet.

cheers DamoC

TourInsure premium/ charges are listed on the pdf applications on the
TourInsure.de website, for those regions that TourInsure offers cover.

The "middle east" is not listed as a covered region on the website, 'tho
perhaps TourInsure offers cover there on application (?).

Hey Mel iam planing a visit to europe on my australian registered bike and i was woundering how did you go with getting a green card to cover your bike over there, did you apply from australia or get it when you arrived there?
Any feed back would be greet Cheers.