Bike insurance- who’s good or bad at moment?

[GrinningGSer]

I am very very low risk , ticking all of the necessary boxes including trackers , locks, brick built garage , clean licence , low theft area, no history. Riding bikes 50 years. Never made a claim . Must have said something to upset this ‘Caring Company ‘

 

[Buckingham]

After a recommendation on here, I went with Principal Insurance for a multi-bike policy at my renewal last Nov.
Since then, when I've wanted to add / change a bike on that policy, I've never been able to get through to their customer service dept.
Pretty poor IMO. I'll be going elsewhere at renewal.

 

[Berin]

After a recommendation on here, I went with Principal Insurance for a multi-bike policy at my renewal last Nov.
Since then, when I've wanted to add / change a bike on that policy, I've never been able to get through to their customer service dept.
Pretty poor IMO. I'll be going elsewhere at renewal.

I gave up with Principal for the same reason.

 

[Morety]

Motorcycle Direct were usually very good....2 bikes each your used to cost me £280 for their Platinum cover with my beemer as the main bike. That's gone up considerably this year, partly due to value of Ducati (which for some bizarre reason they have as group 23) and partly due to the Hayabusa (group 16 I think) which I paid £100 extra for to carry insurance through to renewal. My insurance is due to renew in 6 weeks to we'll see what they quote me for 26/27.

 

[carbonguy]

Avoid Cornmarket - expensive and unhelpful. The discount being IAM is negative. Bikesure seem to be competitive and comprehensive. Best advice is to shop around - however boring the process is. There is usually a couple of hundred pounds saving between top and bottom

 

[sutty]

Just bought a K1600b new tried to get a quote from bmw insurance no quote

 

[wessie]

Just bought a K1600b new tried to get a quote from bmw insurance no quote

just rebranded Markerstudy via C Nash. Bullet dodged.

 

[Engineer]

Hastings refused to quote me

It's because you live in failed state - obvs

 

[malcopopolo]

I look at the underwriter rather than the broker.
Markerstudy are on the do not touch list.
Ageas & Aviva are preferred. Neither sell bike insurance direct so you have to go via a broker

If a broker is shit you can always go direct to the underwriter. You really do not want to be covered through a Markerstudy broker (C Nash, Swinton et al) and have a policy underwritten by them as well.

https://www.markerstudygroup.com/who-we-are/our-brands/ - scroll down to see the 40+ brands they own

Honda insurance uses maketstudy now

 

[wessie]

Honda insurance uses maketstudy now

quite possibly as the underwriter

Honda Insurance

"Honda Motor Europe Limited is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Adrian Flux Insurance Services Group. Honda Motorcycle Insurance Services is a trading name of Adrian Flux Insurance Services Group, which is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference number 307071"

Adrian Flux is the independent broker and parent of Bikesure. They might very well sell you a policy underwritten by a Markerstudy subsidiary such as Zenith with Honda branding. You would hope A Flux handles everything efficiently and there would be no need to seek any contact with the underwriter. Personally, I would ask A Flux to seek a policy from a better underwriter through their full brokerage channels.