Heard something recently about an insurance scheme where your car has some kind of black box fitted that records the mileage you do and what time of day you drove. If it could be done with bikes it could be a cheap way for younger trials riders to get legal. Just riding on the road in daylight hours for say 20-30 sundays a year, 25 miles a time wouldn't put a lot of miles on your record. How it could be turned off for trials without road use may be a problem though!

Mark T

You could leave it at home that day

Sort of joking, but presumably you could. You're only going to be insured when you've got the black box fitted, so it seems that you should be able to leave it at home and forego any insurance?

I heard it on the news too. Thing that sprung to mind was the cost of this kind of technology. Surely it's not going to be that cheap? Dunno...

They're going to have to miniaturise it a bit. This is from Norwich Union:

"The "Pay As You Drive"

seams like a good idea because i don't drive my car at night normally and thus would lower my expensive premium

but when I'm going from home to uni, especially after an event back home i could be driving lots of miles that late at night (home is 200miles from uni) - so dunno if it would really work that well for me

rabie