{"id":897,"date":"2018-08-29T20:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2019-10-23T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:51:29","slug":"bajabound-a-great-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/29\/bajabound-a-great-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"BajaBound: A great organization!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our recommendation for Baja motorcycle insurance is BajaBound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019re headed into Baja, you need to have Mexican insurance on your car, truck, motorcycle, or motor scooter.\u00a0 Your regular US motor vehicle insurance won’t be recognized as meeting this requirement in Mexico. \u00a0It’s that simple.<\/p>\n

At the risk of being challenged by a keyboard commando telling me that you don\u2019t have to have insurance in Mexico, I\u2019ll say at the outset that what you need is proof of financial responsibility for liability incurred as the result of a motor vehicle accident.\u00a0 Yeah, there are other ways of getting around this.\u00a0 You can arrange a bond in advance with a Mexican bank (not very practical), you can carry enough cash to meet Mexico’s upper liability limits (just bring $333,000 in cash with you to show to the officer if you are stopped) or you can get Mexican insurance.\u00a0 Door No. 3 is the obvious answer.<\/p>\n

You might be tempted to just blow off the requirement for Mexican insurance, and you might get away with it. Then again, you might not. If you are stopped (or worse, you have an accident) and you can\u2019t produce proof of Mexican insurance, you are going to be spending a lot more time in Mexico (and the accommodations will dramatically different) than what you originally planned. Trust me on this. It\u2019s just not worth the risk.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been traveling in Baja and other parts of Mexico for close to 30 years, and I\u2019ve tried several different outfits. To cut to the chase, BajaBound<\/a> is the easiest and best way to insure your vehicle. What I like about it is that it\u2019s all done online, it’s inexpensive, and it’s a quality product. What you need to get insurance is an internet connection, your driver’s license, a credit card, your bike\u2019s registration, and a printer. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

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Why go for anything but the best?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I always buy my insurance a day or two before I travel to Baja, and I always set it up to start the day I enter Baja (and just to be on the safe side, I insure for one day longer than I plan to be south of the border). If you\u2019re new to BajaBound<\/a>, you\u2019ll answer a few questions about yourself to set up an account the first time you visit their website, and then you\u2019re ready to start making selections (how many days, how much coverage, etc.). If you\u2019ve insured previously with BajaBound<\/a>, all you need to do is log in, specify the vehicle you\u2019ll be using (super easy if it\u2019s one you\u2019ve previously insured), specify the dates, and pick the coverage you want. In my case, it typically works out to something south of $20 per day, and that\u2019s a hell of deal. \u00a0You pay with a credit card, the policy is immediately available, and all you need to do is print the proof of insurance and you\u2019re good to go.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been lucky. I\u2019ve never needed to use my BajaBound<\/a> insurance because I never crashed my car or motorcycle in Mexico. On one of the tours I led in Mexico, though, one of the guys I rode with had a bad crash. He got through it okay, but the motorcycle did not. My friend put in a claim and BajaBound<\/a> paid promptly. This is the real deal, folks. It\u2019s good insurance, it\u2019s easy to get over the Internet, it meets all of Mexico\u2019s legal requirements, and when necessary, they pay promptly. It doesn\u2019t get any better than that.\u00a0 It’s the only insurance I use for my Baja forays.<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more about riding in Baja? \u00a0 Hey, it’s the best riding on the planet!\u00a0 Check out our ExhaustNotes Baja<\/a> page for the best routes, hotels, restaurants, whale watching, cave paintings, and more! \u00a0 Do a search here on the ExhaustNotes blog using the search term “Baja.” \u00a0 Better yet, pick up a copy of Moto Baja<\/a><\/em>, available now on Amazon.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re headed into Baja, you need to have Mexican insurance on your car, truck, motorcycle, or motor scooter.\u00a0 Your regular US motor vehicle insurance won’t be recognized as meeting this requirement in Mexico. \u00a0It’s that simple. At the risk of being challenged by a keyboard commando telling me that you don\u2019t have to have … Continue reading “BajaBound: A great organization!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,96,89],"tags":[226,228,227],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baja","category-feel-good-stuff","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","tag-bajabound-insurance","tag-mexico-insurance-requirements","tag-mexico-motorcycle-insurance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}