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If they are "safety" items or to prevent damage the insurance will not be increased but if they are an addition they do not know about it could invalidate your insurance. Tell them what you have added and they will then know and it will not be to your detriment. I can't remember where I read about a chap that had a certain year of a certain model of bike. His specific bike was one of the end of the run of non-ABS model which was not registered in the year it was manufactured but was in the next. That next year the model of his bike was fitted with ABS. He had a collision but his insurance stated "Your bike should have ABS and the engineer says it hasn't got ABS so your insurance is cancelled". I think it took him a lot of time and energy to prove his bike was an anomally. The moral of the story is insurance companies are utter cu......