bike storage.

If someone's licence hypothetically went away for a bit, but was
*probably* going to come back within a few months unscathed. What sort
of place would they store their bike? It's probably going to be a bit
sticky with insurers for unlicenced people to have bikes on the street.

 

I assume this is medical rather than judicial?

If the existing policy is going to run for the duration of the suspended
licence then I'd probably do nothing, just leave the bike where it usually
resides. The problem comes should the policyholder need to renew the
insurance whilst suspended as you have to answer a bunch of questions.

I'm pretty sure those here that have had judicial suspensions have followed
the above method, just fessing up to the crime once renewal time arrived.

 

Depends. What bike is it, & who owns it?

 

The insurance covers the INSURED, a drivers licence should only be relevant
if the bike is being ridden when whatever causes the claim happens.
OTOH you should read the wording of the policy, there are magic words
to consider:- OWNER, THE INSURED, VEHICLE and RIDER.

The INSURED is not necessarily the legal OWNER or the person allowed to
ride the VEHICLE. If the policy specifies that the OWNER or THE INSURED
must hold a current licence you could have a problem.

When all else fails - read the instructions.

Probably a good idea to have any bike that is not being used locked away
under cover anyway, it will not rot so fast and will be less likely to
be nicked or damaged.

 

A blue one. Me.

 

So fairly easy to push around rather than some huge fully dressed
tourer then? In which case you're welcome to dump it here[1] for a few
months if it's happy living in a shed. Hell I've already got L's FZR in
temporary storage & Champ's turbo joining it at the weekend, along with
my five, so one more won't make any difference.

[1] A few miles from Swindon.

 

I have room in my garage at the moment for anything blue that's not toooo
hooj.
Has a ground anchor and in a reasonably pikey free zone!
I have trailer and can travel a sensible distance to collect and store for
you reasonably safely, if so desired.

 

I'm very grateful to Krusty for the offer, but this trailer scam sounds
awesome. The licence is already gone so I can't even sit on it with
keys legally. Let alone ride to Swindon.

I'm in W3, does that fall inside your radius of reachability? I'm quite
happy to recompense for miles and time. It's minimum 2 months before
there's any chance of a licence return, and possibly longer since they'l
need to sort out a treatment before they'll sign me off as 'safe'.

 

I'm sure I can sort something out, drop me a line at d a z (at) f o xtai
l s . c o . u k
and we can sort it. No worries coming to W3.

 

Gratefully emailed.

 

Replied but email addy got rejected.
I've tried again!

 

Ok, I'm curious, I assume you posses a licence to ride bikes, so why do
you think that you will not be allowed to ride while your licence is away
getting points added ?

Or have I missed something somewhere that tells me you have been
disqualified from riding ?

 

"It's minimum 2 months before there's any chance of a licence return,
and possibly longer since they'll need to sort out a treatment before
they'll sign me off as 'safe'."

In the post you replied to.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't policies usually include something along
the lines of

"The insured must hold a license or at least not have been banned"?

 

He's a national treasure, isn't he?

 

Thats the reason I wrote "read the instructions".
Most policies keep the insured seperate from the rider(s) but some daft ones
assume that the rider, the owner, and the insured are all one and the same.
<reads policy>
In my case only a person riding needs a licence.

Does anyone have a policy that requires THE INSURED to have a licence ? -
read the legalese.

 

Historically, its been 'holds or has held and is not disqualified from
holding', although I'm not sure what the view would be on a temp
suspension. Aside from that, everyone is rewriting their conditions
nowadays, partly in the name of 'TCF' (1).

1: 'Treating Customers Fairly' Yea, right...

 

Only insofar as he'd be better off in a secure facility with no access
to the outside world, under guard 24/7.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of him being sealed in a large
wooden crate, and then shipped off to an anonymous government-owned
warehouse, a la "Raiders of The Lost Ark".

 

I can entirely understand that given my set of circumstances I shouldn't
be allowed to throw the bike at bus stops packed with school children.

But it seems a bit rich that through no direct fault of my own I'm
disallowed from *keeping* this motor vehicle, and with no warning.

That said, it's my own damn fault for being too cheap to afford a house
with off street parking, which would render everything 'simple'.

Be less poor and be less sick.

I don't see why I have to hand my whole licence back, rather than be
flagged as; 'if driving, is committing an offence'.

Fingers crossed, licence comes back in short order and I get on with my
happy bike riding life, eating at minimum one apple a day.