Anyone bother with this? I mean "tough on crime, tough in the causes of crime" has gone absolutley
nowhere - as we'd expect from Blair. Anyway, that's another story..... A bike in the garage, £1200?
Very nickable.

Another thing. What if some prat in a car pulls out in front and wrecks your bike? Very easy to do.

How much does insurance cost? Anyone else done this? Forget it?

Slim

Crikey - I should have read the "Accident - Advice sought" thread first? Same answers do you reckon?
Slim "The Real Slim Shady" <tinker-too@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bhiuec$2i42$1@ID-179018.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Anyone bother with this? I mean "tough on crime, tough in the causes of crime" has gone absolutley
> nowhere - as we'd expect from Blair. Anyway, that's another story..... A bike in the garage,
> £1200? Very nickable.
>
> Another thing. What if some prat in a car pulls out in front and wrecks your bike? Very
> easy to do.
>
> How much does insurance cost? Anyone else done this? Forget it?
>
> Slim

somebody wrote:

> > Anyone bother with this? I mean "tough on crime, tough in the causes of crime" has gone
> > absolutley nowhere - as we'd expect from Blair. Anyway, that's another story..... A bike in the
> > garage, £1200? Very nickable.
> >
> > Another thing. What if some prat in a car pulls out in front and wrecks your bike? Very easy
> > to do.
> >
> > How much does insurance cost? Anyone else done this? Forget it?

and:

> Crikey - I should have read the "Accident - Advice sought" thread first? Same answers do
> you reckon?

There's many threads about bike insurance archived in google. Executive summary : house contents for
bike, that and/or CTC for 3rd party.

cheers, clive

In message <bhiuec$2i42$1@ID-179018.news.uni-berlin.de>, The Real Slim Shady
<tinker-too@yahoo.com> writes
>Anyone bother with this? I mean "tough on crime, tough in the causes of crime" has gone absolutley
>nowhere - as we'd expect from Blair. Anyway, that's another story..... A bike in the garage, £1200?
>Very nickable.
>
>Another thing. What if some prat in a car pulls out in front and wrecks your bike? Very easy to do.
>
>How much does insurance cost? Anyone else done this? Forget it?
>
>Slim
>
>

Lots of people do it. It can be very reasonable. A quick look in google groups will provide you with
plenty of information. Putting the bike on your household insurance is often the best way.
--
Michael MacClancy

www.macclancy.demon.co.uk

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:32:29 +0100, "The Real Slim Shady" <tinker-too@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Anyone bother with this? I mean "tough on crime, tough in the causes of crime" has gone absolutley
>nowhere - as we'd expect from Blair.

Slim

Recorded crime is actually well down since the early nineties...

"Crime in England and Wales fell by nine per cent in 2002, according to a survey which measures
people's experience of crime. Police recorded crime is down by seven per cent and the risk of being
a victim remains at its lowest level for 20 years."

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page3418.asp

That isn't to say that there aren't a hell of lot of improvements that can and should still happen,
that individual police officers don't sometimes do stupid (and occasionally illegal) things and that
the government (like all governments) doesn't now and then shoot itself, the police and the public
in the foot, but to ignore the genuine progress that has been made is, I think, a mistake. And I
suspect the same is broadly true for other public services such as the NHS as well.

Unfortunately, most people appear to believe exactly the opposite - couldn't be something to do
with the scrupulously fair and impartial way papers like the Daily Mail report what's going on,
could it...

David