Motorcycle Insurance Companies

Of course we all know popular doesn’t always mean best - or indeed cheapest, but here is a list of the most popular carriers for everyday street bike coverage:

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The average motorcycle insurance cost depends upon the age of the insurer, the type of bike and the temperament of the insurer.

These factors vary widely among different age groups and so does the insurance. For example, you may take a typical 25-year-old, a 21-year-old and a teenager with a 350cc machine and insure them with third party, fire and theft. Read more »

Lower Your Motorcycle Insurance

Insurance premiums are determined by a combination of many items including age, driving record, how long you have been riding a motorcycle, the type of motorcycle and the area you are in. Let’s look at these one at a time:
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If you are going to work any day of the week you will notice the sharp rise in the number of scooters ont he road.  If you live near or pass by a university campus such as the University of Utah or BYU you may be surrounded by scooters.

Students are trying to save money.  Nothing new there, students are always trying to save money.  With the high price for gas many students are opting to purchase a scooter to save on gas.  You can also save on maintenance as compared to a car.  You might be also able to save on parking costs.  Where you should not try to save money is on insurance even though it will be much cheaper than car insurance.

If you are in an accident ona  scooter chances are youa r egoing to be injured, sometimes seriously injured.  The minimum insurance required to be carries on a car is $25,000 in bodily injury coverage.  That means that is a minimully insured driver hits you his insurance will pay up to policy limits of $25,000 and then that’s it.  If your medical bills alone total $40,000 you are out of luck and left owing the difference of $15,000.  Read more »

AMA Pro Racing is proud to announce that Team SuperTrapp’s Matt Weidman is the 2008 AMA Flat Track Rookie of the Year. In his first full professional season, Weidman finished 12th overall in the GNC Twins series and 20th overall in the GNC Singles series, placing him 14th in the combined points total for the two series.

AMA Flat Track Rookie of the Year honors are awarded to the eligible rookie rider with the most points accumulated in both the GNC Twins and GNC Singles series. Read more »

How do you evaluate a motorcycle whose most notable feature is a number? One-hundred-and-ninety-seven horsepower. To a rational mind, it’s boggling, functionally irrelevant, over-the-top ridiculous.

For many motorcyclists, these adjectives represent excess. For the Vmax buyer – and many would-be Vmax buyers who will miss out on the 2,500 allotted to the United States for the 2009 model year – this excess is the Holy Grail. Everything else is just the box used to package the hyperbole. Read more »

The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) is proud to announce that it will sanction the World Off-Road Championship Series (WORCS) for 2009. In addition, the AMA and WORCS will also partner on several rounds of the AMA Western Hare Scrambles Series, which will lay the groundwork for future cooperative endeavors.

“Off-road racing is a unique area of motorcycle competition where both the country’s top athletes and recreational amateur racers frequently compete in their respective classes at the same events,” said AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman. “Thousands of our members are die-hard off-road racing enthusiasts, and the AMA remains steadfastly committed to this form of competition on all levels. As one of the premier series for off-road racers in this country, WORCS represents an excellent additional partner for the Association as we continue to grow and improve this area of competition.” Read more »

If you’ve been considering a two-wheeled adventure of your own but thought it was too difficult or intimidating, think again.

Just as U.S. motorcycle sales have risen for 11 straight years, the population of riders has grown more diverse and mainstream. Long perceived as the domain of biker gangs and others on the fringes of society, today’s community of riders includes people from virtually every walk of life.

“We’re seeing all different types of people getting into motorcycling today, including women, professionals, empty-nesters and others,” says Eddie James, road riding director for the American Motorcyclist Association. “It’s really all about individuality and freedom. A big part of the thrill is not knowing what you’ll find around the next corner.” Read more »

Motorcycle Insurance Comparison

If you are looking to compare motorcycle insurance for the best bike deals and cheapest motorcycle insurance rates. Then you will probably already know it can be a time consuming business with so many bike insurers offering deals on line the sheer amount of information and number of web based deals can be overwhelming. However with the advent of a number of specialist online insurance comparison sites the laborious task of finding the best insurance deals has been made a little, if not a lot easier. Read more »

Motorcycle Insurance Australia

Talk to riders (we have) and you’ll find loads of reasons why some riders do and others don’t insure their bikes. One thing’s for sure - the more experienced they are, the more likely they are to have insurance.

Could say they’ve learnt from experience or the hard way. Either way, we listened to what they - and a load of other riders - thought about motorcycle insurance, and here’s what we found…

Bike insurance is expensive right?

Wrong. Consider the impact of not having insurance…

Motorcycles account for 3.0% of all registered vehicles - but riders account for 20% of all serious road injuries. Read more »