Anyone speak Maltese? A car crash between Spanish, Arabic, a sore throat and feck knows what.
It’s an interesting challenge the OP has set himself. As far as I can make out:
A. An English rider, resident in the UK, with a British passport.
B. A foreign registered bike, not owned by the OP, sitting in Malta. Ownership of bike, unknown. Current insured status of the vehicle, unknown.
C. To be ridden by the OP from Malta to the north French coast and then, apparently, abandoned (or handed on to someone else).
I am not surprised the call centre monkey couldn’t process that through their workstation, as it’s a bit beyond the usual bikermate and his 1250 WC, used for 1,000 miles a year, garaged and only used at weekends for a run with likeminds to Tesco in Norwich, to then chill.
Me, I’d maybe start talking to a specialist broker / insurer. The European bit is, for some insurers at least, more challenging in the post-Brexit heaven we have inherited thanks to several cnuts who never want to travel beyond Lancashire. But hey, it’s a price worth paying if it means the Polish shop on the High Street can become a Mecca slot machine palace or a Cypriot (Mancunian born, natch) run fish-and-chip shop.
PS I might even pretend that I intended to import the bike into the UK
I said ‘might’....... But, you might still run into a problem that you are not the registered owner of the vehicle. That is not insurmountable, as you don’t have to own a vehicle per-se in order to insure yourself to drive it.
