Breakdown Cover

[Fowlersrs]

Been riding my bike now for a while without and I must admit I feel I'm taking a risk in case the bike lets me down,

Who is your breakdown cover with? What did u have to pay? Do u have cover within Europe and most importantly have u ever had to use it and what was the experience like?

[mab]

AA Cover with Halifax Ultimate Reward current account. (£10/mo)

Have used them a few times and they have treated me well. Roadside assistance and Home Start. Covers any vehicle you are driving or a passenger in.

[CG Sam]

I have cover with my insurance with the RAC. Nice enough, but only really seem to know the basics that you could fix yourself at the roadside. It is nice to have the recovery though
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CG125, SV650S, CBR600F, GSXR600 SRAD

[J.M.]

I'm on my parent's family policy with: https://www.motoringassist.com/

I've called them 3 times. They've sent someone excellent to me each time.

We've had AA and RAC cover on the family cars before, amongst other coverers. The cars were so unreliable that we "experienced" each of the companies that we used, more than once.

The call out times for the AA and the RAC were just ridiculously slow. I remember the clutch going on the family car on the way back from holiday once. It was lunch time that it went, 30-45 minutes from home. Young children present, including myself. We arrived home at around 8pm.
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2004 R1 & 2018 XSR900

[Rogerborg]

Auto Aid. £39 a year, self and legalled-up spouse, any vehicle (motorcycles over 150cc), roadside and home.

Significantly, they do cover damage caused by accident, vandalism or theft attempts, which the AA / RAC explicitly exclude (although you might get lucky with the Van Man).

The drawback is that it's insurance: you pay up front, they refund you within a couple of weeks.

I view that as a positive, since it puts you in charge of the incident, and any wrangling will happen from your sofa rather than in the lashing rain at the roadside.
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[Fowlersrs]

[Walloper]

[Fowlersrs]

Yes I'm just lazy..

So I can get cover for the mrs too all for 39 a year. Lovely, has anyone here used auto aid for recovery? Do they just use a local company to where u are then for there services?

Sounds like a winner!!

Bollocks, just been reading up on it, I have to be married to get cover for us both, what a con, marriage is so fucking overrated!

[Kai.Wilson]

Im with RAC. used it a few times

But i work for a breakdown company. Start Rescue, they are pretty cheap

[j00pY]

I left AA when they wanted £90 rather than £45 for a years insurance. I noticed as well that they don't recover you if you have a crash so I went with https://www.sos-motorcycle-recovery.co.uk/ who will pick your bike up if you crash it.

[bren_9311]

I have two sets of breakdown cover, on with my silver current account with lloyds and the other was free with my insurence. It helps too have to when i rode a chinese bike becasue there was was a yearly limit.


Also with the llotds one i was able to change the bike over the phone when my GF'S scooter broke down.
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[-Matt-]

Breakdown was included with my multibike bikesure policy last year. Think its with startrescue but i may be thinking of my car recovery

[Kai.Wilson]

[Walloper]

[-Matt-]

Just had a check startrescues my car breakdown but very good service. Used 3 times, including homestart and onwarrd journey for about 35 pound i think

[thepuma]

I got 2 years free full breakdown cover from Honda when I bought the bike. One of the benefits of paying for a new bike I guess.

Touch wood ive never had to use it...yet!.
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YBR125 (SOLD) - CBR250R(SOLD) - CBR650F(SOLD) Current - Street Triple
765 RS

[Kai.Wilson]

[Louise]

Im with AA & started with Roadside assistance..
How ever after locking keys in my rents car I had to go the next one up. Im now Silver membership which costs £18.05 a month
Just seen they offer another service - which covers my son if he is in someone elses car & they break down. Unsure of the cost.

[Nobby the Bastard]

With RAC.

Had to call them out, once due to total electrical failure, once due to broken throttle cable.

First time, the nice lady with the big orange van identified that the bike wasn't charging the battery (turned out to be the worst corroded connection that I've ever seen on the connector for the alternator) and filled me back up with electricity so that I could get the 50 miles home.

Second time, when I rang them I explained that the throttle cable had broken so there was no point trying to diagnose, it needed towing.

When the nice man with the orange van turned up (he wasn't so good looking as the nice lady, I'd have happily done her up the Gary) he apologised about the length of time he took (over an hour) and explained that he'd had to go and get the bike trailer as he's accepted my explaination of the cause.

Only issue with my recovery is that they will only tow 10 miles for free. £7 per mile after that...
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[Peirre oBollox]

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RAC - generally pretty bad.
AA - others have had bad experiences.
Greenflag - will get you home with no extra expense.
ADAC - best option for europe wide cover I believe, but use the AA in the UK. I'll be getting this again before going to France, as it's by far the cheapest that covers a large motorhome.

[Walloper]

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[Walloper]

[G]

Greenflag seem to fairly universally send a 7.5t+ tilt and slide, meaning anything up to 3.5t should be ok.