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Looking to book insurance for this year. Anyone come across any good options aside from the obvious (Snowcard, Dogtag). M&S did good cover last year but have excluded racing this year.
Also going with Mrs Bella and Baby Bella. Suspect will be best putting them on a seperate policy as doubt either of them will be racing.
Any suggestions peoples?
Did dogtag but read the excess...
Dogtag for Mega has a medical excess of about £500 (I Think) for the race.
Mega seems to be in it's own catagory
Evening
Just been looking myself. Prices seem to have gone up a bit... You about at the weekend?
Dogtag if you want specific cover for the race (most policies have a race exclusion).
Snowcard were nearly double the price of Dogtag.
Just do it for yourself & chuck the non riders on a generic insurance policy (Boots always had very good cover for low premiums).
Our chalet last year had a few (4 i think)trips to the medical centre....
Each cost about 250euro and he only took cash.
Most of that goes in the excess
I used these last year: -
https://www.etravelinsure.com/travel_insurance_sports_activities.htm
cost is very reasonable.
500 Excess!!
Cheers dan45a
etravelinsure.com looking good. Under half the cost of the big 2
Will give you a call later brycey
Can anyone recommend (or otherwise) this outfit:
[url= https://www.sportscoverdirect.com/insurance/extreme-sports.html/ ]https://www.sportscoverdirect.com/insurance/extreme-sports.html/[/url]
They offer a top-up insurance policy to cover "extreme sports" excluded from any basic travel policy that you hold and have specifically included "downhill mountain biking -competitive" as a category.
The premium for me is £67, with a £50 excess.
This sounds almost reasonable to me. 😕
Anybody used them? How does it compare?
Thanks
Slight hijack - eckythump, have you got a doctors note yet? I've overlooked this, and plumber is also struggling. I was thinking of asking Adam to write one for me, seeing as he is a doctor. (albeit, a doctor of chemistry 😆 )
Good call on the insurance too.
John (M_M_T_M)
I've joined British Cycling (bronze - £14 or so - docs received 2 days later in the post) which gives you a provisional race licence photo card. Most reports on t'web suggest that this has been enough but I'd like to have a back-up and I'm not going to pay £30 for my doctor to write a note.
Anyone else got any feedback re the insurance linked above?
I have a multi trip insurance with TrailFinders. They charged me £25 to add race cover for the Mega.
As for the race licence I went for Silver BC Membership with a full licence as no one could give me a definitive answer on whether a provisional licence was good enough. The Silver membership also comes with personal liability insurance which may come in handy at a race like the Mega.
Phoned trailfinders but was informed that they could not offer cover for downhill mountainbike competition (even for an additional premium). 🙁
Might be because I was only interested in a single-trip policy.
I have a provisional silver membership too. Seems you can buy their Multi-assure (?) insurance for 20Euros on line, but then it mentions postage.....not really going to receive the card by the time I depart on Tuesday next week am I?
I'm doubting BC would even get a race upgrade in the post by Tuesday?
Is the provisional license ok? Does anyone know??