We’ve partnered with Cloud Cover to offer specialist bicycle insurance to give you comprehensive cover for theft and damage.

We can give you instant cover for almost any risk that can affect you or your bike when you cycle in the UK. We can also cover you when you cycle overseas.

Our policies are available for brand new bikes, for second-hand bikes, and for custom bikes. We’ll even cover you if you bought your bike through a cycle to work scheme.

Our bicycle insurance policies include, as standard, up to £6,000 theft and damage cover for bicycles. Our policies cover both accidental damage and malicious damage to your bike.

If your bike is under three years old, we can also provide a new for old replacement in the event of theft or damage.

Our bicycle insurance standards can also include the following as optional extras:

• Worldwide cover – so you can still get cover for theft or accidental damage if you take your bike overseas.
• Accessories cover – choose from £300, £600, or £900 cover for your bicycle accessories.
• Replacement cycle hire cover – we can pay up to £1,000 towards the hire of a replacement cycle.
• Cycle rescue cover – UK roadside recovery for any incidents that occur more than a mile from your home.
• Personal accident cover – a fixed lump sum of up to £25,000 in the event of an injury or death occurring while you cycle.
• Legal expenses cover.
• Public liability cover – to pay any compensation or other expenses should you ever accidentally injure someone else, or damage someone’s property, while cycling.

Our bicycle insurance policies only provide cover for personal or recreational cycling. We will cover you for damage and theft if you use your cycle to commute. But we cannot cover you for business use – such as for work as a courier.

Nor can we cover you for competitive cycling, or for professional racing.

Finally, while we do offer cycle recovery for UK cycling, we cannot provide roadside assistance for worldwide cycling.

Whether cycling is your hobby, your passion, or your main means of travel, then it’s absolutely worth getting insurance cover for your bike.

Accidents can happen, and bike repairs can be very expensive. Also, all cyclists are at risk of bike theft. Bicycles will always be a prime target for thieves, and criminals don’t just target rare or expensive bikes.

There’s a thriving online marketplace for certain bicycle parts, including brakes and sprockets. Opportunistic thieves may target any bike, regardless of its value, on the chance that they might be able to salvage some parts to sell.

You could get cover for your bike as part of your home insurance. But this won’t cover you for all of the risks you might face while cycling, such as personal injury and damage to third party people or property. Home insurance also won’t give you any cover for cycling overseas.

So if you’re serious about cycling, only specialist bicycle insurance will give you all the cover you need.