The NZ bike rental market?

[Whynot]

I am doing some research for a friend
What is the accepted view on the market for rentals here in NZ?

Do you think that there are good deals to be had for overseas visitors and locals alike?
What kind of bike would you expect to be able to get for $100 a day? or $150?

What type of bike would you personally rent and how much would you expect to pay?
Has anyone rented overseas? and did it meet your expectations or not?

Any comments would be helpful!
Thanks in advance :)

[Coldrider]

How do you hire a sportsbike for $150 a day, say for three days, and eat out the best part of $600 of tyres?

[Whynot]

How do you hire a sportsbike for $150 a day, say for three days, and eat out the best part of $600 of tyres?

I don't know ... how do you?

and i didn't say sportsbike.

[Coldrider]

I don't know ... how do you?

and i didn't say sportsbike.yes, but you asked what sort of bike, so i say i'll have a CBR1000RR for three days at $150 per day (your suggested upper limit), and destroy $600 dollars worth of tyres, i would consider that a very good deal.

Have you got any experience in surveys?, as much experience as I have had hiring sportsbikes in the US?

[Whynot]

yes, but you asked what sort of bike, so i say i'll have a CBR1000RR for three days at $150 per day (your suggested upper limit), and destroy $600 dollars worth of tyres, i would consider that a very good deal.

Have you got any experience in surveys?, as much experience as I have had hiring sportsbikes in the US?

Thanks, that was really helpful

[Coldrider]

That's because your survey is phucked from the start.

Take several motorcycle options, and do a costing on each type first, by day hire, by kms travelled an arrive at a price, then add profit for the motivation of doing it. Then survey with some facts presented for the real opinions.

[SMOKEU]

I've had a look at several bike hire places just to satisfy my curiosity and none of them seem to have any Japanese race replicas. Probably because people will thrash the phuck out of them and destroy tyres and brake pads at an alarming rate, and possibly bin it as well trying to be the next Rossi clone.

[Coldrider]

here's what you pay in the US, for 150 miles a day http://www.2wheeltravel.com/Motorcycle%20Hire/USA%20HIRE/Sports%20bikes/Sportsbike%20hire%20USA.htm

You might be lucky to find a motorcycle rental in NZ that may hire a bike you may be seen on, but you would have to do your homework.

[release_the_bees]

I rented one of these (http://www.colemans-suzuki.co.nz/rentals/11-gsx750f_katana.aspx) over the Waitangi day weekend for about $76 a day (because the shop was shut on the Monday, I got the Monday hire for free - which was mighty decent of them).

[Brian d marge]

Having worked in NZ for the rental bike market ,, I can tell you they dont wnot new zealand dollars

so if you are a fat american

or rich , you get the biz

if you are a kiwi , you get a gn 250


150 a day ,,,,no thank u


stephen

[jasonu]

Having worked in NZ for the rental bike market ,, I can tell you they dont wnot new zealand dollars

so if you are a fat american

or rich , you get the biz

if you are a kiwi , you get a gn 250


150 a day ,,,,no thank u


stephen

How much if you are not fat?


New Zealand's obesity rate surged ahead in the 12 years to 2009, a major nutrition report released today by the Ministry of Health shows.

For men the obesity rate shot up to 27.7 per cent in 2009, up from 17 per cent.

The women's rate was slightly higher, at 27.8 per cent, up from 20.6 per cent in 1997, says the report, A focus on nutrition, key findings of the 2008/09 New Zealand adult nutrition survey.

Among Maori, the survey found that 40.7 per cent of men were obese and 48.1 per cent of women.



National Obesity Trends
About one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese.
Approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese.



Percentage wise there isn't much in it, eh fatty...

[Brian d marge]

how did you know..... I just the doctors report the other day.....bigger had the nerve to tell me I was fat ...... fat ...
so I went on a diet ....lasted until I went the piss..
now that I'm sober ..... I can already tidy up my post from last nite ...
during the season ... the tourists have the money ....
Stephen

[Mully Clown]

Have seen plenty of tourists out there on rental bikes. Also seen plenty of relatively modern, high mileage, ex-rentals for sale on TradeMe. Things must be relatively OK out there.

Haven't ever seen something targeted towards locals.