Insuring a foreign visitor on a UK bike

They might if they had their UK registered bikes seized. :augie. May even ping up on ANPR as of course its the MIB database that uploads to the PNC database.

Indeed they might but it has nothing to do with the OP’s question. Can you help him or are you just here to throw dreamed up obstacles in his path?
 
If you care to look at posts 5 & 7 you will notice I offered some advice and signposted the OP in a couple of directions. One link you repeated in your later post.

As for 'dreamed up obstacles'. You pointed in the direction of a couple of insurance sources that potentially might not be valid in the UK on a UK registered bike which, if I recall correctly, was what the OP was inquiring about. The content of my observations may also be of some interest to other forum members or it may not.

If there is the potential for someone to be left standing at the roadside because their vehicle has been seized, or be the subject of a variety of disposal methods for 'No Insurance' including potential arrest because some clown has given the wrong advice then I think its fair they are suitably advised.

I had the impression you are an industry expert. With subject knowledge myself I was attempting to have a polite professional discussion which both of us and others could gain from. If you weren't aware of the basic issues I was putting across then perhaps you are not such an expert. Maybe you just think you are portraying yourself to this audience as being clever when in reallity you come across as a knob.
 
Ask the bods in Germany if their product is MIB friendly. Post the answer here for future reference.

As for why a bod from overseas is insured to drive a hire car in the UK, as per post #5. It’s because the hiring companies (Herz, for example) spends a lot of money each year with an insurer to ensure that insurance is in place. The premiums may run into the multiple millions, so much that Herz for example run the product through their own in-house insurance vehicle, called a ‘captive’. https://www.captive.com/news/2018/08/08/what-is-captive-insurance Herz’s captive is called Probus, based in Dublin https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/misc/simpleIndex.jsp?targetPage=probus_about.xml

When it comes to individual bods trying to do the same thing (again post #5) it’s much more difficult to do as there is all but zero demand for the product. Adrian Flux seems to have found an insurer capable of providing the cover, whilst the German insurance provider seems (if the internet responses are up-to-date and accurate) appears to have found a way of doing it too, presumably primarily aimed visitors to Germany wanting to do the same thing. For the purposes of this thread, let’s assume that the German insurance provider is as good at their job at arranging locally compliant (EU wide) insurance as Flux is. If they are not then eventually the German equivalent of the FCA will catch up with them or not.

Following the link to http://www.lobagola.com/green-card-insurance/eu-border-insurance.html it seems that this is an insurance provider who specialises in the same service as Flux but aimed primarily at the Southern European market. They appear to have teemed up with a bunch of local insurers to provide the service, presumably mirroring Flux’s service for bods bound to the UK.

Tour Insure https://www.tourinsure.de/en/international-motor-insurance-and-frontier-insurance/car/usa-en-2 seem to have teamed up with Axa, one of the true pan-European Motor insurers. A British friend used Axa to insure his Nepalese bought and registered (the number plate was a load of squiggles) when he rode it back into Europe from Nepal, from where he’d bought the thing initially. The key difference about the German provider seems to be that their product is aimed at bods insuring their own vehicle when abroad, not bods arriving in Europe to ride a borrowed bike.

TourInsure is the expert for international motor insurance and frontier insurance. Whether you are on the road in your own car, camper or on your own motorcycle, we have the ideal insurance for your vehicle.

Which is not what the OP is seeking to do.
 
If there is the potential for someone to be left standing at the roadside because their vehicle has been seized, or be the subject of a variety of disposal methods for 'No Insurance' including potential arrest because some clown has given the wrong advice then I think its fair they are suitably advised.

There is no obligation for an insurer to log the details of a vehicle of the vehicle with the data base, other than where the vehicle is primarily insured. For example, Aviva will log your vehicle with the database here in the UK. They will not simultaneously log the vehicle with the equivalent body in say, Germany, Sweden or the Czech Republic. Assuming that is the Germans, Swedes or Czechs even have a local equivalent of the UK’s system. Arrange insurance through the German outfit and, logically, the German insurer will log it with the German database, assuming there is one. They will not log it with the UK database, for exactly the same reason that Aviva will not log your vehicle with the Germans.

When travelling overseas, at least in Europe, the certificate - not registration with a local database - acts as easy proof of insurance, in exactly the same way as a Green Card did. It cuts out the very problem that that your imaginative possible scenario puts forward. I guess it explains why the UK is not littered with vehicles being pulled over by UK cops, equipped with ANPR equipped cars. Commit an act so heinous that plod is then taking an intimate look at you and your insurance, seek professional legal advice.
 
Anyway, we digress. How is the OP getting on?

I'm still here, taking it all in; based on some of the advice here come renewal time i will ask the question of some of the providers mentioned here and see if it can be done, I do not want to be canceling an existing policy to go to someone else for the sake of a couple of weeks. Really I should just tell my mate to ride his own bike over from Germany and save me the grief, but time and funds are tight for him, i have a bike available so just trying to help him out by lending him mine.
 
Getting him to ride his own bike over is easiest in the short term, not least as you’ll not have to screw about finding him insurance. The other consideration is that, even if you do get it insured, it’ll be you as much you as him who is left sorting out the mess should he unfortunately lob it down the road or worse into someone.... or someone into him. He’ll be back in Germany (hopefully) whilst it’s you with the tangles to untangle..... all for a few days of doing someone a favour.

PS If his time and funds are short, he’ll maybe not be leaping to get you a new clutch lever, reservoir, wing mirror, bar end and gear lever if the bike tumbles over in a car park. I have seen it happen. The two are no longer besties, as the kids would say.
 


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