cbt on your own bike

Sid_The_Sloth · Trackday Trickster Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Karma :

So a mate up north is doing her CBT soon. She wants to use her own bike but can't seem to get insurance for it. Companies keep saying they'll insure it for off road but not on road until she gets the CBT done.
Anyone know any companies that would insure her for the CBT?
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Az · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Apr 2013 Karma :

I know it's not what you're asking but, why does she want to use her own bike. She's got the next 2 years to get used to her bike (unless it breaks before her CBT needs renewing).

janner_10 · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Karma :

Making hard work for herself - just use the schools bike. She needs a CBT to ride it there, how will she get it there (and back if she needs extra time)
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Sid_The_Sloth · Trackday Trickster Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Karma :

She's short and pretty small framed. So finds a ybr a bit too tall. She has a marauder, which granted won't be the best for the manuevers but at least she fits it.
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Az · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Apr 2013 Karma :

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

YBR is too big, therefore find a different CBT place?

Sid_The_Sloth · Trackday Trickster Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Karma :

Thanks I'll let her know about bikesure.
Finding a different place isn't the easiest in Thurso, and also I doubt that'd help much anyway. Most will use the ybr or CG. Or Chinese equivelant. The ybr custom was too tall for her also. So its highly unlikely that anywhere will have much better fitting to her.
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BigDan1190 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Karma :

Its illegal to ride a bike on the road without a CBT.

So, how would she get it there? Are prospective insurers and the police supposed to believe she walked it there? or hired a van?

I doubt its possible mate, but there are plenty of people too short for the bikes they ride. Its something that has to be learnt I'm afraid.

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Also, most places have scooters/mopeds and geared bikes, might be worth doing the CBT on a scooter, then moving on to her own bike when she gets home.

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Sid_The_Sloth · Trackday Trickster Joined: 27 Nov 2011 Karma :

Na I know that. But if its insured her dad could ride it down there or chuck it in his van. I have recommended using their bikes and just working on leaning off but she seems pretty set for it to be her bike if she can get away with it.
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janner_10 · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Karma :

Sounds like biking isn't for her.
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Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

By the time Snowie had finished building her Super-Dream, her old CBT had expired by about three months; I booked her CBT, and it was pretty simple to buy her insurance 'on-line' a few days before... 2-upped her to the school, and I cought the bus home; she did her course, and came home with the DL196... few days later the 'bumph' from the Ins-co turned up asking for copies of her paperwork... which by then she had... job-jobbed.
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P. · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

Get her to wear slightly taller shoes.

Or, man up. I know someone very short who rides a CBR125 that could barely sit on a YBR, passed the CBT on it... so your friend needs to just go with it, sit 1 arse cheek slightly off the bike.

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dolly3900 · Traffic Copper Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Karma :

Looked into this for my lad and was a nightmare to get his bike insured prior to CBT to do it on (reason being, they only have auto scoot's and he has a geared bike, so wanted to do CBT on the bike style he would be riding, makes sense)

What Ian (Gavian Motorcycle Training) offered was this.

Give him the details of the bike, he would then put it onto his school insurance for the course and we would then van it over to the school for the day, insure it for him to drive home and all sorted, only cost was the admin fee from his insurance.

That said, I was too late to get the details to him, so not able to do it, but that might be one option for her (if the school is as accommodating as Ian is)
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