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Tonto1
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 Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:59 am Post subject: Best home insurance to cover bikes!! |
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Just in process of re-newing our home insurance and as we have several high end bikes at home, i'm looking for some recommendations of who offers good coverage for bikes.
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geraintnorman
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Best home insurance to cover bikes!! |
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| Tonto1 wrote: | Just in process of re-newing our home insurance and as we have several high end bikes at home, i'm looking for some recommendations of who offers good coverage for bikes.
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M&S or American Express.
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tri_longer
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Haven't had a quote from them yet but these may well be worth a look
http://pedalcover.co.uk/
All your bikes covered – no need to specify
No need for separate bike insurance
Competition, training & leisure at home and abroad
£1 million building cover for your home
£75,000 home contents cover
Switching is easy – no need to wait for your home insurance renewal date
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JeffB
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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I use pedalcover, haven't had to make a claim but he's very thorough.
Bikes are covered away from home as well.
Jeff
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WhittleFit
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Pedal over for me too (got bike, home, car & travel insurance with them).
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Grifter
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:42 am Post subject: |
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I've just used John Lewis and the level of cover seems good. I've backed this up by keeping receipts for parts and taking photos to substantiate any future claim.
I had to swap as I realised the max bike value on my Barclays policy was vastly insufficient despite being told otherwise when I signed up last year!
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Cheggers
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| Pedal cover here too.
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fat buddha
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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another vote for Pedalcover
saved me £200 over my previous JL policy as well. a warning however - Darren does like a good chat if you speak to him.... 
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largeade
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone claimed yet?
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stenard
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| largeade wrote: | | Anyone claimed yet? |
I'm intending to go with them, or at least get a quote, when my current policies expire, but the above is my only doubt. As a relatively new company, they can sound amazing but if when the time comes to claim they wriggle out of paying out, it's not so good. I'm not claiming they would, but without positive stories of successful claims, it is a niggle in the back of my mind. Having said that, I've never claimed on my separate house or bike insurance to date, so I cant really be sure they are that great either!
One other question someone might already know - can you strip out the buildings insurance element to reduce the premium, or it is a "locked in" part of the policy? Living in a leasehold flat, that's taken care of by the managing agent through my service charge, and unless it can be eliminated so I'm not paying for something I dont need/can't use, I'm guessing it might make the policy not as great a deal as it otherwise might be.
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fat buddha
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Stenard - your best bet is to call Pedalcover and talk to Darren direct - he's extremely helpful. I think he does offer contents only.
as for claiming, I have no idea what this would be like having not claimed on a house policy for nearly 20 years after a washing machine went into meltdown when we were out.
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+1 for PedalCover here as well.
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stenard
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I just had an email from PedalCover about their new club affiliate programme. I'll mention it to my own club as well, but to be honest it was tritalk that got me on to PedalCover so I was wondering if there was some way the site could get an affiliate link and any money generated could go into covering the hosting fees etc?
As I don't know who runs the behind the scenes stuff, it would need someone who does to coordinate I would guess, but come renewal time, if the discounts still work and aren't just for new policies, I'd certainly be happy to put tritalk down as my "club" to give something back.
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| stenard wrote: | I just had an email from PedalCover about their new club affiliate programme. I'll mention it to my own club as well, but to be honest it was tritalk that got me on to PedalCover so I was wondering if there was some way the site could get an affiliate link and any money generated could go into covering the hosting fees etc?
As I don't know who runs the behind the scenes stuff, it would need someone who does to coordinate I would guess, but come renewal time, if the discounts still work and aren't just for new policies, I'd certainly be happy to put tritalk down as my "club" to give something back. |
Good idea stendard. I'm looking to switch as well at some point so might be in the same situation.
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MarkyMark76
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| +1 for PedalCover - saved me a good few hundred quid.
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