MCE Insurance, the bike and scooter insurer has been banned from the 2006 Northern Ireland Motorcycle Festival at the Odyssey, Belfast in February.

Show organiser Louise from Nutt Promotions today confirmed the sponsor Adelaide Insurance had banned all other insurers from exhibiting at the show.

Julian Edwards, responsible for Business Development at MCE said: ‘We have negotiated excellent deals for riders in Northern Ireland with the UK's leading insurers. After a decade of overpriced bike insurance all we wanted to do was bring these deals to Northern Ireland.

Unfortunately it seems the organisers and sponsor of the Northern Ireland Motorcycle Festival do not want the public to save money."

MCE said it remains committed to bike insurance in Northern Ireland and is currently looking for other shows to exhibit.

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