Bike Breakdown Services?

Anyone got any recommendations (or dis-recommendations) about
breakdown/recovery services?

Got to ride an unknown beemer from Scotland to the west country next
week, and think I'll take the precaution of joining one of the 'get you
home' services - but which one?

Cheers

Alan

 

Who's your insurer? If you're insured through Carole Nash, breakdown cover
is included.

 

emerged from their own little world to say

If, as Platy says, your bike insurance does not cover you then there are
quite a few brokers selling the same EuropAssist policy

E.g. KwikFit insurance want £70. Cheapest I could find was
http://www.quotelinedirect.co.uk/main/index.asp who sell it for £59. It's a
full monty type policy including European cover. I have it on my car. If
you don't need to keep it on the bike it is easy to log onto their website
and change the vehicle details (car or bike) as often as you want. All of
the documents are retained online and you just print them off as you need
them.

 

the AA works every time
you ring em they turn up and take you either to home or to the nearest
garage to get it fixed
ive been collected 4 times now and never had to wait more than an hr
2 punctures 1 fall off 1 twated by a blind moron
and i got no complaints
worht every penny
dave

 

the cont known as yammyr6 says...

Listen you little fuckwit, post properly. It's not like you dont know
the score here.

 

So what's he done wrong?

And don't say lack of context, because the subject line is plenty.

 

ogden emerged from their own little world to say

replied to me rather than the OP

capital offence

 

I suppose, if you were a pedantic ****, he should really have included
an attribution to indicate you were the person before him in the
thread, even if he didn't want to include anything you'd said in your
post.

But you'd really have to be some sort of **** to let that bother you.

 

the cont known as ogden says...

Lack of attributions and crap formatting.

If you say so.

 

....but they charge you £144 quid if you want recovery following a
crash.

 

Since when? The took my Bindit back home after a prang. That was about
18 months ago.

 

They charged me £144. I thought it was a mistake so I checked. Turns
out both AA and RAC charge for recovery following a prang. Britannia do
not.

If I ever crash I'm gonna claim I've got a flat tyre and need recovery
cos the recovery bloke aint gonna GAF.

 

You better make sure you slash the tyre then because I've had two
punctures and the AA fixed both of them.

 

You really, really sure about that?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/826d1901d0bc1757

 

angings too good for em

 

Was the vehicle off the road? All the breakdown firms I've seen impose
charges for getting the vehicle back onto the road first.

It is after all a /breakdown/ service.

 

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/826d1901d0bc1757

I'm sure that before Xmas (Nov?) Britannia claimed not to charge while
AA and RAC claimed to charge. Might have changed, of course.

 

Undrivable but on the road.

True. However I'd rather have free reocvery as well as breakdown when I
renew, if that's ok by you.

 

Well they 100% wanted to charge me £80 an hour on December 27th. That
was to recover a car where the front wheels were in a ditch.

 

Cheeky lying cunts.

They *did* charge did they? Britannia *did* tell me they'd give a
invoice but the payment of it would be optional. The idea being that if
you were going to claim on your insurance you could include the invoice
in the claim *if you wished*.