29-10-14, 12:14 PM
Add up all the premiums that you have paid for breakdown cover over the years. If you had put that into a separate fund I bet you would have enough to pay for multiple incidents of roadside assistance and/or recovery.
At the risk of sounding like a hypocrite I do use breakdown cover but only when I am on overseas trips where the cost of recovery in the event of a serious mechanical failure would be considerable but I would not have it for UK the only.
At the moment I don't have any as my 1200RT is still under BMW warranty which includes Europe-wide coverage and that is my touring machine but if the FZS1000 ever went to Europe I would cover it. On that subject I do feel a bit guilty - I have owned the Fazer for nine years now and never taken it on a Euro-jaunt. I think it deserves to see some Spanish sunshine. (My previous touring machine was a '98 VFR800 until my girlfriend started coming with me - hence the change to the RT)
At the risk of sounding like a hypocrite I do use breakdown cover but only when I am on overseas trips where the cost of recovery in the event of a serious mechanical failure would be considerable but I would not have it for UK the only.
At the moment I don't have any as my 1200RT is still under BMW warranty which includes Europe-wide coverage and that is my touring machine but if the FZS1000 ever went to Europe I would cover it. On that subject I do feel a bit guilty - I have owned the Fazer for nine years now and never taken it on a Euro-jaunt. I think it deserves to see some Spanish sunshine. (My previous touring machine was a '98 VFR800 until my girlfriend started coming with me - hence the change to the RT)