Gutted - Bike Stolen

[GTKD]

My year old GT Transeo was stolen from my garage last week. It was covered by home insurance, but the excess is so high, and the impact on premiums in future so swingeing, that there is no point claiming.

I guess I should have pretended that the garage was full of the crown jewels to inflate the claim like I hear everyone else does, but that's not my style. So its back to my old Falcon Explorer which they left behind whilst I decide what to do for the future.

 

[vernon]

Your premiums go up in the event of a claim?

Mine didn't on the occasions of us making claims in the past.

I'd make the claim and get whatever you can then shop around at renewal time to get a lower premium.

 

[neil earley]

Its awfull that you bike has been stolen and you feel you cant claim !! what a society we live in penalise the honest ones while some scumbag gets away with it by stealing your bike, makes my blood boil the d khead lowlife. Hope he gets caught.

 

[skudupnorth]

That stinks and just goes to show that the insurance companies are in the same league as the crooks who robbed your bike,hope you get a good outcome

 

[ASC1951]

I guess I should have pretended that the garage was full of the crown jewels to inflate the claim like I hear everyone else does, but that's not my style.

Good man.

I have never bothered with household insurance; or bike locks, come to that. That is no doubt why I have never had anything stolen; like getting in the bath to make the phone ring.