2 Questions about mileage...

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1. What is classed as being the average mileage a year for a non commuter? I.e weekend and some weekday evening blasts? (for insurance)

2. What is considered high mileage when looking at a bike to buy?

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The condition (specifically of the mechanical bits, for me) of the bike I'd say is much more important when buying, as above.
Best bet to get an idea of 'average', is probably to look at some bikes in the area you want to buy .

[iooi]

1. Would expect to see around 5K.
When i 1st started bikeing and it was only used for fun, as work was a 5 min walk. I would do around 350 a week averaged over the whole year.
Often with a new bike i would have 1K on in the 1st week.

2. High milage has to be based around the age and type of bike.
Many bikes can happly do 100K with no problems, while others won't be worth touching when they get to 10K due to the high mataince costs.

Decide what type of bike you are looking at and you will get more info on whats considered high milage.
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[Faraz]

How would the insurers you if you have exceeded your stated annual mileage anyway?
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hmmm depends but the first thing i'd think of would be how much would i have to do and check once i've bought it.

Summer fun should be around 4/5k which is normally dependant on service windows too. I.e the SV is only 3.5k so some people might like to keep to one service a year.

If your going for a bike with thats more than 5 years old with more than 30k on i'd be worried generally but just make sure it feels right.
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[kawashima]

1. around 5k?
2. I assume you are looking at 650 class(from SV650 or 650S thread), what I was suggested was it's better to avoid bikes used for courier(especially bikes owned by courier company). They are usually high milage. But some dealers rewind the odo meter back, so you must judge by your self in the end. If the bike looks far "tired" for its milage, you should suspect.
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I said a vehicle may have multiple policies, not a person
For instance, I'm insured to ride my bike and a friend would also like to ride it, so they add my bike to their policy.

Ebike insurance does not offer third party cover to ride other people's vehicles, but does suggest that you could add your friend's bike to your policy if you'd like to ride it (which is pretty useless when someone offers you a quick blat on their bike in Boxhill carpark ).

I suspect you could have seperate business and personal cover on a vehicle in some cases.

As mentioned, third party cover to use another vehicle is the obvious example where two insurance policies are 'acting' upon one vehicle as such.

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if their insurance will allow a multi bike policy fair enough, far easier all round to add your fried to your insurance as a named rider and they ride your bike on your insurance.

this still doesnt get away from the fact that if you have exceeded the agreed milage the onus will be on YOU to prove that the extra milage was covered on a different policy and not on the insurance co

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[iooi]

Well when i tried to ins my divvy, i messed up the registered keeper bit and forgot it was me..
When it came to the quote bit, it said no can do as not registered keeper.
Might be different for other ins co, though.
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