FOAK - insurance for learners.

Is it likely to be very expensive for someone to insure a large bike
before doing the direct access training, i.e. to use for the training,
compared to waiting until passing the test before insuring it?

 

I highly doubt they will give a discount for using your own bike - and
how would you get it there and back legally?

And the bikes they provide tend to be things like CBF500s which are easy
to manouevre and you don't have the possibility of dropping your nice
shiny bike.

 

IWHT impossible, but SWK will be along.
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It is possible to get the insurance, just that you can't legally use it
on the road without an instructor present. It's only the same as being
insured whilst a learner in a car.

 

Same price as insuring it when you pass in L's case. That was with
Auntie.

 

*ding*

This was pre-DA, but I had no problem insuring my SZR before I passed
my test[1], but the insco was very stern, both on the phone and in the
letter than came with the policy, that I was not to actually ride it
until passing my test.

[1] it was delivered about a week before my test date, and I wanted
theft cover.

 

What do you think you are doing, giving a helpful answer based on
factual knowledge?
Thanks.

 

I don't see any advantage, because the school doing the training would
probably not allow him/you to use your own machine.

They'll have their own specialist cover and it's likely to be linked to the
use of their own bikes and not bikes belonging to the riders, plus they
wouldn't reduce their charges for "own bike" training by enough to make it
worthwhile insuring your own.

At least that's how I see it.

 

Fair enough.

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Sorry Sir, won't happen again.