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Community => Thorn General => Topic started by: R Bailey on September 14, 2021, 07:20:30 pm

Title: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: R Bailey on September 14, 2021, 07:20:30 pm

Good evening

Delighted to have received my new Thorn Nomad today - really looking forward to riding it soon.

I'm looking to insure this - we also have two Bromptons, one Surly and a Gazelle bike. Which insurer would members recommend please? I'd like to have cover for when I go touring as well as for here at home in York.

thanks in advance

Russell

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: PH on September 14, 2021, 09:11:30 pm

Congratulations on the new bike, wishing you many happy miles.
There's a board dedicated to insurance
http://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?board=13.0
Save typing it all out again  ;)

There's also several boards where you can post photos and details of the new bike, just saying  ;D

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: R Bailey on September 14, 2021, 10:15:09 pm

Thanks PH - images to follow in due course when it's daylight - first ride out tomorrow - so glad to have it here!

One thing I have noticed though is that there appears to be a few paint drips on the top tube - is this to be expected as part of the manufacturing process? Would post images but seem to be having trouble uploading any images to my posts in this forum - even when I keep the file size within the limit

thanks

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: in4 on September 14, 2021, 10:51:59 pm

Welcome! Happy days ahead. Look forward to seeing your new steed. My MK2 is named ‘Henry’; after my Labrador.

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: R Bailey on September 14, 2021, 11:23:35 pm

Thank you

looking forward to our October trip to NE Scotland - taking it on our camper and will be exploring routes around Caithness and over to Orkney for a day or two

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: Matt2matt2002 on September 15, 2021, 05:48:59 pm

Let me know if you're in the Aberdeen area.
Always nice to meet up with fellow Thorn riders.
I have a Raven Tour.

Best

Matt

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: R Bailey on September 17, 2021, 11:48:03 pm

Will do Matt - I live in York but venture north on occasions

Title: Re: Thorn Nomad - bike insurance
Post by: mickeg on September 21, 2021, 10:05:17 pm

Some months ago someone on this forum mentioned an on-line registration site where you can register your bikes.

I am in USA, this site apparently is often used here but I do not know if it is used much in the UK.
https://bikeindex.org/

I recently registered my bikes at that site and I also bought the stickers to put on my bikes.

My community used to have a bike license program that almost nobody used.  But I did as I wanted the sticker on my bike with a number that police could correlate to me.  But my community no longer does that and I suspect that they will lose the data base in the near future.  My community instead recommended the website I cited above.

I looked for that thread I cited above, found this reference to bikeregister in that thread:
http://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=14041.msg106502#msg106502