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 Posted: 19:30 - 07 Aug 2017  Post subject: Halp : Bought a new bike, struggling on insurance... |
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Bought one of these little badmanz innit. Pick it up tomorrow!
https://i.imgur.com/qwWJLxi.jpg
However, no fucker has the make / model down.
The only ones who seem to be able to find it are Bike Sure / AXA
I rang them up and they quoted me £399 on the phone, they said with it being so new and cant' find it, "That's all we can do". Had them ring them underwriters back (AXA) a couple times and they, "just can't beat it".
1 hr later, rang them back... £301 now! Funny, I tell him you just beat your own UNBEATABLE price by nearly £100 in 1 hr. He fobs me off with some bullshit that the "variables change all the time" and they must have changed in the 1 hr.
Someone else I know just got a £201 quote from the same people / under writer.
Funny how I can get insurance on a 200 bhp RSV4 RF worth £18k but a 10bhp 125cc worth £2k costs the same?
If I have to pay it, I will pay it but when you know you're being lied to / ripped off, it's fucking infuriating.
Anyone know somewhere that would do a cusomised quote? The bike doesnt' show up on all the company's systems bar Bike Sure that I have tried and I have tried: Adrian Flux / Bikesure / The Bike INsurer / Bennetts / Hastings Direct.
So time consuming, been on the phone for 3.5 hrs today to them and need to sort this first thing in the morning |
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| Posted: 20:25 - 07 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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I'd get onto MotoGB, the importer, and ask them why they haven't got it on insurers' lists yet.
https://www.motogb.co.uk/contactus
Amateur hour stuff. 
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| Posted: 21:19 - 07 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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Test ridded it? Combined brakes OK?
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Posted: 16:59 - 08 Aug 2017  Post subject: |
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https://i.imgur.com/zeyeCQ8.jpg
Went with Principal in the end @ £241 fully comp. At this point, I'd spent 4+ hours over yesterday and today talking to insurance company's and I'd had enough of them.
What's the biggest issue with dual linked brakes though? If I pull a wheelie and use the back brake, happy days. I can still do a stoppie... |
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Are there smaller bikes that allow independent rear brake control, or is that on high(er) end systems?
BTW that number plate holder thingy needs to be killed with fire  |
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| Jayy wrote: | What's the biggest issue with dual linked brakes though? |
Dunno. The dual system on my Burgman 400 worked very well, but it was gayboi scootay.
Honda's dual ABS has devotees and haters. Given the budget for putting them on 125s (tree fiddy Yuan) I'm genuinely interested in how it performs. I mean, if it does, and the extra brake lines aren't just for novelty purposes only, to mollify Jeanny Brusselscrat. 
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| Posted: 15:39 - 11 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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| M.C wrote: | Are there smaller bikes that allow independent rear brake control, or is that on high(er) end systems?
BTW that number plate holder thingy needs to be killed with fire |
What do you mean smaller bikes? The Honda Groms don't have linked brakes. Tail tidy and decat exhaust coming in the next few weeks  Also want to go up a couple teeth so it will wheelie easily. It will make it even slower but that's ok as I want to stunt it anyway
| Rogerborg wrote: | | Jayy wrote: | What's the biggest issue with dual linked brakes though? |
Dunno. The dual system on my Burgman 400 worked very well, but it was gayboi scootay.
Honda's dual ABS has devotees and haters. Given the budget for putting them on 125s (tree fiddy Yuan) I'm genuinely interested in how it performs. I mean, if it does, and the extra brake lines aren't just for novelty purposes only, to mollify Jeanny Brusselscrat. |
My pal has a 15/16 model R1 (forget which year) and it has linked brakes. He said though, if you pull the front brake it applies both equally but if you then tap the back brake whilst still holding the front, it unlinks them? Pretty sure that's what he was saying...
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How was your first tide on it? Happy? |
Was grinning ear to ear all the way home. Went out for a few hours the next day and the same thing. Yes it's slow as shit (topped it out at about 64mph) but it's just a funny bike. When I went out with the brother in law on Honda Groms the other week, it was just funny. I know a fair few people with Groms and I intend on turning this in to a little stunt bike.
It is funny though, when I get back from a ride on it, I keep taking the RSV4 straight out just to de-gay myself and remind myself I'm still a man.
| winz wrote: | Looks like it could be a little ripper. But chill out with the PS filters.... |
I don't know why I applied so much HDR to it, it was early in the morning when I did it.
https://i.imgur.com/ZmqV4fl.jpg |
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| Posted: 16:14 - 11 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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In fairness, I'd expect the insurance on those to be as much as a sports bike on the basis they will be a theft magnet.
Could you feel the covetous eyes on you as you rode it about?
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| Posted: 17:36 - 11 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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You need to have a "mine's smaller" competition with some Grom riders.
It does look like a great laugh. Any chooning options?
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