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    Best Price For 1300 2006

    Call around until you get someone offer to sell you the bike for around $13.600....That's before taxes, but after MAKE READY & DEALERS PREP which many will try to pass on to your.....ask for a price in writing.........otherwise, when the bike arrives and your go down to pick it up and the...
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    Towing Insurance For Motorcycles

    The only time my bike was towed they did $750 damage to it.................Now I had 2 claims which caused my rates to double......What a deal!!! You DO NOT WANT TO EVERY MAKE A CLIAM!!!!! COMPRENDE??????? Call the dealer up, tell him you got a $100 extra bucks for one of his employees if he...
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    Insurance

    Lets compare apples to apples, I pay $1,000 for a $140,000 Mercedes and the Ins co's want $1200 for a $10,000 motorcycle? Like, oh yea what a deal! $90/year for minumum liability will do me just fine.........as if I hit a car and did over $20,000 damage I'd be alive to worry about it...
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    Insurance Quotes - Houston Texas

    You must be the last to know.............State Farm Ins rates based on CCs not performance.....Give em a call..... Otherwise, you'd be an idiot not to pay cash and carry liability only $90/year or finance it thru Yamaho Credit Corp which only requires Liability.....Don't buy the Uninsured...
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    Insurance Rate Increase

    Every state is different as to how claims are databased, thus could effect your rates..........Also, every insuance co differs in what numbers they use to declare a vehical a total loss....your claim adjustor will gladly answer this question for you... But, who cares.....you don't have a claim...
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    You Sobs Are Crazy

    Just Plain Dave lives in Texas and claims his insurance rates haven't gone up.......To say your insurance rates haven't gone up is to practically admit your mentally impaired to some point, but then on top of it to admit your live in Texas too, leaves one NO DOUBT. The only thing I remember not...
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    You Sobs Are Crazy

    Auto insurance in Texas does cover replacement only ACV.........and you have to drive it off the showroom floor to take possession of it.... Not in Texas,,,rates mostly having nothing to due with the rider,but are based on Credit Score and how the Co's rated the bike due to size & performance...
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    You Sobs Are Crazy

    All I'm saying is if and that's a BIG IF, the insurance cost are reasonable, insurance can make sense....but I'm hearing people mentioning $1,000 or more a year for Insurance for a FJR that's only worth $10,000 after it's driven off the showroom floor......Imagine this, in Five years you've paid...
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    You Sobs Are Crazy

    Is uninsured Motorist a good deal? You tell me, if the premium is $20-50/year definitely yea........but in the policies I've seen, the premiums are ridiculously high and limited to $20,000 for Bodily Injury which means there is NO UNDERINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE as 20K is the minimum coverage...
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    You Sobs Are Crazy

    While the rate increases I was referring to apply mainly to Commercial Property and Liablility, FYI Bush allowed Texas Insurers to go to a file and use system.....meaning Co's can file their own rates and policy forms rather than adhere to the State Boards recommended rates & forms.......what...
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    You Sobs Are Crazy

    in insurance premiums...........I repeat PAY CASH and carry Liability only for $90/yr. I'm an insurance agent in Texas, and to give you an idea of what's going on in this country, back in 1998 I got a call from my Ins Co advising us to vote for Bush for Gov of Texas as they owned him and if he...
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    Bottom Line Price

    I just put down a deposit for an 06 AE with a dealer in Dallas......He told me that they will come off MSRP $1000 for a presold 06 FJR AE....Since MSRP is 15,299 and are delivered fully loaded there should be NO ADD ONS, that puts me in the bike for $14,299... What kind of pricing have your...
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    Insurance Quote

    Two secrets to obtaining high performace bike insurance cheaply...... 1. State Farm Insurance as they rate on CCs not on HP.....they don't know the differnce between a goldwing and a 1000XXX. 2. Pay cash and buy liablity only for $90\yr. Good luck... Your friendly Independent Insurance Agent
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