Did make me wonder for a moment how owners of Tritons, Tribsa's, Norvin's etc had got their bikes insured for all these years
As an elderly person who was there among the Tritons and all that in their heyday, that is a reasonable question to ask.
The answer was it was a different world then; No EU crap, no such thing as the litigious breed of lawyer and amazingly insurance companies were mostly honest.
I'd walk into an insurance brokers office, oft times a cubby hole offshoot of something else, once a printers shop I recall, and say I wish to insure such and such a bike, of xxx cc, year xxxx tell them my age and address hand over a bag of old and walk out with an insurance certificate mostly 3rd part or TPFT.
Now it takes me, in this computer age, over an hour to fill in dumb arse online forms with questions that cannot be answered or are irrelevant.
Trying to insure a modern scoot alongside my vintage bikes was ridiculous.
another example.
10 yrs I replaced a Sherpa van with a Sherpa mini bus and the conversation with the same company as the previous was insured went along the lines of
"we don't insure mini-buses"
"but its the same kind of vehicle with windows and seats"
"its a mini-bus sir"
Ok I'll fill in the windows and it'll be a van again"
"oh a van, we don't insure commercial vehicles sir"
"but you insured the previous van for the last 5 yrs"
"But it was not insured as a commercial van sir"
"Nor will/is this one."
"its a mini-bus sir we don't insure mini-buses.
Ok I'll fill in the windows and remove the seats.
"we do not insure modified vehicles sir"
at that point I destroyed the phone.
I use the insurance co you mention, and another also a specialist bike insurer, never again the CN one.
The diffrence between the tritons and so on an the sort of cobbled up crap I see to today labbelled as blobber or rat bike, such as huge engines in aframe cobbled up from scrap, of which only the number on the headstock is genuine are a different matter, I have no doubt the insurance industry is geting well clued up on such things.
As I said it was a different world back then, and you snowflakes will never understand how different.
As for what you do with your 'classic' and as someone who assembled the first Commados at Plumstead I'll never see them as that, I can assure you I don't give a monkeys fart what you do to your bike, much less worry about it.
No off you go and do it, then come back and show us all.
postscript.
IMPORTANT NOTE: It’s essential to speak to your insurer before you make any modifications to your motorcycle so you can understand the policy implications. Some modifications will dramatically increase your premium, and other modifications might make it very difficult for you to find a company that will insure you at all. Failure to disclose any modifications can also result in your insurer refusing to pay out on a claim, especially if the modification contributes to the claim.
which is more or less the original point I made?
