How much

[Slipstream]

Well, I don't know if this has ever been a thread but,

How much was your cheapest bike (excluding ones given to you as a present)?

How much was your most expensive bike?

What were they and when did ya get them?

[Grumpy]

Well, I don't know if this has ever been a thread but,

How much was your cheapest bike (excluding ones given to you as a present)?

How much was your most expensive bike?

What were they and when did ya get them?

Bikes for presents..... where do I sign up?

[bugjuice]

Cheapest - '89 GSXR250R - bought for $300 in a box that was dismantled for 6 years in a barn. Spent close to $1000 to get it back on the road, rode it for 8 months, then sold it.

Expensive - '04 636 - bought it cos.... well, have you seen it? nuff said.. so can't afford it..

[Big Dog]

Bikes for presents..... where do I sign up?
$300 with a guranteed trade when I had lic to upgrade to a road legal bike.

$16 k not picked up yet (fitting some more stuff before I collect) :banana: :ride: :whistle:

[bugjuice]

Didya make a proffit?
sold for $3000 I think..
and about to do it again.. but a little more this time round..

[WINJA]

$30 FOR A STEP THRU AND $22,000 FOR A GSXR 1000 K3 , EXPENSIVE BUT I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO BUY.FUCK I MISS THAT STEP THRU, I BOUGHT IT WHEN I WAS ABOUT 13 AND IT FELT SO FAST I WAS SCARED MY ARMS WOULD PULL OUT OF THEIR SOCKETS, I PARKED IT AT THE MT ALBERT SHOPS AND LEANED AGAINST IT SO ALL MY MATES COULD SEE IT , NOW I BUY A GSXR1000 AND GET DISSAPOINTED THAT I CAN ONLY PULL UP WHEELSTANDS AT 220KMH

[Waylander]

Paid $600USD for the Rebel and $3000USD for the Virago, havn't sold either yet and don't really plan to.

[Grumpy]

Cheapest was a Honda SL100 ??. $50. Spent about $200 on it. Lasted about 3 weeks. Decided not to become a motorcycle mechanic about then. :whistle:

[woody68]

70s Yamy 90 trail .
brand new Honda magna 1990 $9000

[Two Smoker]

My dirtsquirt BMX... about $300.... still got it in the shed somewhere....

RG150... $1900 but have spent alot more than that on it....

K5 GSX-R600... about $25000 so far (stupid crashing :angry2: )

[viper]

cheapest was a suzuki gs 550 for $50 in kit set form, put some of it together but didn't have time 2 do the rest so sold it for $250

most expensive is my suzuki bandit for $4000

[chickenfunkstar]

Cheapest (not really) - '88 FZR250 cost $2400 to buy, spent over $1000 over the next year, then sold it late last year for just one $1,000. Glad to see the bach of it.

Expensive - '99 Suzuki SV650S, $7,000. Haven't regretted buying her at all. :niceone:

CFS

[NC]

$800...

I hit a taxi with it, his insurance people paid out more than that, they vauled it!

[FEINT]

CBR250RR 1994 $5500.00 ...

[riffer]

My cheapest. I got a present from my parents for passing UE - a 2 year old GP125.

My most expensive - my latest - but I'm not telling what that is yet... :whistle:

[Motu]

I've been given heaps of bikes for free,some going,some not,as payment for work done or ''just get it out of here''.The best one was the Kermit green C50,it was 8 yrs old with 19,000km on the clock when I got it and it was my primary commuter on Waikeke Island,and even brought it to Auckland a couple of times.Park anywhere,cost nothing to run,carry all sorts of shit cause you could ride with one hand...my weapon of choice on a cold wet day...

It's hard to think of the cheapest bike,they have all been cheap - it's what I do.Maybe the 1973 Suzuki TS400,I got this for $100 in 1988,it hadn't gone for about 3 yrs and I spent an afternoon getting it going.It had been used on the Canterbury Plains and was geared to hell and gone again,I'd never get it into top on Waiheke.I didn't like the 19in front wheel and fitted a TM front end on - and it has the honour of being the only bike to dump me on a gravel road.Later I used it on the Waiheke dirt track,keeping the TM forks,but fitting the 19in wheel back in,I also fitted a TM top end and other goodies...a TS/TM hybrid.I raced it for 4 yrs,having the best fun in my life,totaly reliable unless I broke something,the number of crashes I had on it would be in the 3 figures.On the day I left Waiheke in 1996 it wouldn't fit in the truck,so I sold it for $200...twice what I paid for it,I thought that was pretty good considering the thrashing I gave it - oh,what a mug!

The 1997 DT230 I am buying at the moment for $4500 is the most expensive bike I have ever bought,by $2500,this is kinda scary for me,but I sold 4 bikes to gather the money together.I have never insured a bike,they have never been worth enough to worry about,but it worries me enough to think about insuring this one...

[EDIT] oh,silly me...my first bike,a 1956 BSA Bantam Major D3 150cc was the cheapest at $60,sold it for $100,the first and last time I made a profit on a bike...

[Skunk]

$90 - XL185.
$15,500 ZRX.
Sold the XL for $200.

[matthewt]

Cheapest = $400 for a gt185 that was in bits. My dad spent a month or so working on the motor and then put it all together. Worked great as my first bike until some plonker nicked it from where I work.

Expensive = $35,750 for my previous bike which was a new 2001 MV Agusta f4 750cc. A lot of you will poo poo spending that much money on a bike but it was worth every cent. It makes the new 1000cc f4 soooooo tempting being priced just a little more then the 750cc was.

[Zed]

My first and cheapest ever bike was a Honda MB100 which cost me a whopping $250.

Most expensive bike I ever bought was a brand new '95 Honda CBR900RR for $18,000...lost money on it as soon as I rode it out of the showroom! :pinch:

[bugjuice]

Expensive = $35,750 for my previous bike which was a new 2001 MV Agusta f4 750cc. A lot of you will poo poo spending that much money on a bike but it was worth every cent. It makes the new 1000cc f4 soooooo tempting being priced just a little more then the 750cc was.
youch.. well if you've got it, flaunt it I reckon..

[John]

CT125 going fine and full for 400$ IIRC.

[SPman]

Cheapest was the mighty AX100 which I swapped a 2.5PI Triumph which had had a wiring loom fire, for.The car was given to me so the bike was free.
Most expensive - in terms of the day - $3500 in 1974 for a Ducati 750SS. ( A new Holden HQ Kingswood was about $3000 I think) But, as I already had a GT750, ( which cost $2470) it was either quit the SS, or the wife left. Well, I fucked up on that decision big time! :drinknsin

[Kwaka-Kid]

XR500 $20 gas to get there and pick it up off guys lawn in pieces.
or paid for bike? $200 for CB250RS with seized motor... $600 later she was a mintah with full engine recondition and paint/many spares.

most expensive... hmm, dont think ive paid more then $3K for a bike yet... but then there are all the addons that get/have been biffed on my current viffer.. which i guess has had a fair wee bit spent on it for what she is.. but shes sooooo smoooth, glad to have her back (and in one piece) thanks shade!

[XTC]

Bought a 81 XR250a for $250 and found that the airbox had no filter in it and was full of clay. Only needed a rebore and piston.... sweet.

[vifferman]

How much was your cheapest bike (excluding ones given to you as a present)?
Free(ish). I had to paint my sister's roof, and fit some new guttering.
I then stripped it (the XBR500RS Mutant) down to a pile of bits, took the head off and had the valves ground by my uncle's tech class (free), repainted everything, new tyres, WOF etc. ($600). But (BUT!) my first bike also cost $600, and it was only a coupla years old. But that was very long ago, and $600 represented more then, given I was earning less than $1/hour at the time.


How much was your most expensive bike?
Way too much, given that I bought it from TheSharkBrothers, and it's a VFR (they tend to hold their value). My arse has almost stopped hurting from the reaming it got. It cost me $6K more than I got for trading in the FahrtSturm.

[jrandom]

... it was either quit the SS, or the wife left. Well, I fucked up on that decision big time! :drinknsin

You let the SS go? Fool...

[bungbung]

FR50 found in a skip bin
Honda Beat found on front lawn
Yamaha 50, 1/2 share = $30
FA50 $60

VTR $8500

[inlinefour]

I've had a number of free bikes: XR200R, TS185ER, A100, DT125 etc etc.

As for the most expensive, that'll be the next bike: 2005 CBR600RR :niceone:

[slick]

Suzuki GT500 $300, 2-stroke twin in bought a box rebuilt as a cafe racer, never really ran well.
Ducati 748SP $30,000, engine blew up twice!

[ManDownUnder]

First real (aka "going") bike was an ER185TS. Great little bike, went well and did everything I needed of it!

It was the princely sum of $700.

Before that was a CB100 which cost not a lot (can't remember), and then proceeded to break down on o regular basis... actally spend more time in the shop than out of it (literally...)

MDU

[Fryin Finn]

I bought the original CR125 for $400 kept it 3 years swapped it for a TS 125 kept that 6 months then swapped it for a Nikon F camera body (back in 1978) I still have the camera with 35-200 zoom lens but rarely use it in this digital age :cool:

[jrandom]

I've only owned two bikes.

I bought the FXR new for $4400, trashed the hell out of it and wheeled it onto Frosty's trailer two years later for $500 (eliciting extreme finger-waggling from Mrs Random) and then rescued my Zeal from its previous owner (who I don't think lubricated the drivechain even *once* while he had it) for $2500.

[Motoracer]

Cheapest - 2002 FXR 150 - $ 150

Expensive - 2002 GSXR 600 - $ 7,000

[ajturbo]

$ 50 seams to be a re-acuring figure for me....

1st $50 i spent on a bike, it was a dt100, put the piston round the right way ..... and raced it for a whole season (buckets) before i decided to increase the power....
2nd $50. on a CB 550.......:banana: got it going and sold it for $200 (didn't trust my rebuliding skills)

3rd $50. was on the scooter that i have now, the one that luke keeps on falling off... had it now for about 3 years.. still going strong...:ride:
andy

[SPman]

You let the SS go? Fool...

30 yrs on it still hurts - but I kept the GT for quite a while....:drinknsin

[jrandom]

30 yrs on it still hurts - but I kept the GT for quite a while....:drinknsin

I should 'ope so.

Reminds me - you coming to lunch tomorrow?

[SPman]

Nah - jury service over - back to work tomorrow - buggrit

[Wolf]

Free - some little 100cc Suzuki which needed a little work. My brother fixed it up and his son learned to ride on it.

Free - GSX250 with knaffed engine, spent $290 on a second-hand motor, $60 on a new set of carbs, dunno how much it's going to cost me to get it to run for more than two minutes at a time...

Often spent "a dollar a cc" on some of the bikes I've bought.

[riffer]

Okay for some reason Kiwibiker's refused to let me create a thread for the last two days...

So I'll talk about my new ride here.

It's a 1996 Suzuki RF900RS, a little more kms than I wanted to get, but still quite reasonable for this bike and its been incredibly well maintained so I'm happy with what I got.

It's got brand new rotors, near new Metzelers, Z3 front Z4 rear, new battery, a good newish chain and sprockets (can't see the front one but) and some lovely heated grips that will come in handy for winter as the temperature in Upper Hutt regularly dips below 0°C. An yup, it's still got the tank bra, and the original owner's manual and toolkit.

I'm waiting for AMI to get the cheque for the FZR750R to me and I will pick up this sucker - the wait's killing me ... not to mention the train trips.

But it will be worth it. It's the American Model (E-03) which means it's the full 118 horses at the rear wheel (135 at the crank apparently) and a MPH speedo which will take a bit of getting used to - especially as how 100 comes up reeeeealllly quickly and smoothly.

It doesn't pull any harder than the fizzer, which derestricted was about 105 at the rear wheel, but it seems to pull that hard for a bit longer, which as a 9 year newer bike and 187cc bigger it should.

Anyway, hope you aren't pissed for the thread hijack. Just wanted to share my joy.

As for what I paid - let's just say it's $50 more than the insurance company gave me for my 1987 FZR750R... :whistle:

[FzerozeroT]

$25 for a 1981 CR125 with a TF125 engine in it, then $100 for a PE250. Both suffered from the same fault, moronic owners who put 30-40 in the tank then let it settle to the bottom and ride like nana's at 2000rpm so they had fouled plugs/carbs/barrels/pipes. a good one day thrashing and they ran like new (all that oil did something good)

heres the PE, the RM/TF was by far the cooler bike (although the PE was plenty cool for a 14 year old

[ManDownUnder]

Okay for some reason Kiwibiker's refused to let me create a thread for the last two days...

So I'll talk about my new ride here.

It's a 1996 Suzuki RF900RS, a little more kms than I wanted to get, but still quite reasonable for this bike and its been incredibly well maintained so I'm happy with what I got.

It's got brand new rotors, near new Metzelers, Z3 front Z4 rear, new battery, a good newish chain and sprockets (can't see the front one but) and some lovely heated grips that will come in handy for winter as the temperature in Upper Hutt regularly dips below 0°C. An yup, it's still got the tank bra, and the original owner's manual and toolkit.

I'm waiting for AMI to get the cheque for the FZR750R to me and I will pick up this sucker - the wait's killing me ... not to mention the train trips.

But it will be worth it. It's the American Model (E-03) which means it's the full 118 horses at the rear wheel (135 at the crank apparently) and a MPH speedo which will take a bit of getting used to - especially as how 100 comes up reeeeealllly quickly and smoothly.

It doesn't pull any harder than the fizzer, which derestricted was about 105 at the rear wheel, but it seems to pull that hard for a bit longer, which as a 9 year newer bike and 187cc bigger it should.

Anyway, hope you aren't pissed for the thread hijack. Just wanted to share my joy.

As for what I paid - let's just say it's $50 more than the insurance company gave me for my 1987 FZR750R... :whistle:

THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!!!!!

JOIN THE CLUB CHAPPY (same colour as mine... and OH SO PURDY!)

Oh we can stop swap stories, and have things in common and ride together and be bestest friend and swap recipies and clothing patterns and ... oh the list just goes on and on and on...

... ahem...

I mean "nice ride good choice dude"
...as you were...

MDU

[ManDownUnder]

$25 for a 1981 CR125 with a TF125 engine in it, then $100 for a PE250. Both suffered from the same fault, moronic owners who put 30-40 in the tank then let it settle to the bottom and ride like nana's at 2000rpm so they had fouled plugs/carbs/barrels/pipes. a good one day thrashing and they ran like new (all that oil did something good)

Oh that's brilliant! Actually that is funny...

[riffer]

THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!!!!!

JOIN THE CLUB CHAPPY (same colour as mine... and OH SO PURDY!)

Oh we can stop swap stories, and have things in common and ride together and be bestest friend and swap recipies and clothing patterns and ... oh the list just goes on and on and on...

... ahem...

I mean "nice ride good choice dude"
...as you were...

MDU

Are you sure your name isn't SpongeBob?

[Sparky Bills]

Was given a "Steel riders" BMX, and a PeeWee50. (when I was 3yr old)
Cheapest: $1500, sold for $1800 ZXR250 89
most expensive: $8000 R1 99 :Punk:
I LOVE MY JOB!!

Have had other bikes, $4000 FZR250, And another ZXR250 $5000

Plenty of time to increase the list too. :2thumbsup

[XP@]

Cheepest bike: 1990 CBR600

The bike = 4 cans of db
Paint = $100
Cleaning stuff = $20
new fastners = $50
tyres = $?
chain = $?
sprockets = $?
Bike Fluids (oil, brakes, water...) = $70
Person Fluids(beer, more beer...) = $undisclosed (and rising)
DVD Hire (to keep the wifey quiet) = $?
Time spent looking for misplaced valve collets = $Priceless


Most expensive bike: F650 '97= $8000

Still have both of them and want to sell them soon, Hoping to make money on the CBR.
Would take a miracle or a real dumbass buyer for me to make money on the F650