The recession - give up biking?

[Mom]

The recession - give up biking? Or should the current economic situation encourage more to take it up?

I have been reading here over the last little while of people getting made redundant, or having hours cut, or not getting enough hours to pay the bills. How does this impact you? I have read comments about people thinking of selling their bikes, or being told they will have to sell their bikes if things stay the same for a while. Should that be an option to consider for some?

How safe is your job? What would you do if you were unemployed all of a sudden?

[twotyred]

If I lose my job I will definitely sell at least 1 bike... may do it anyway to free up some cash...

[Headbanger]

We just received confirmation of so much work we are going to have to expand substantially, I'll be relocating to the deepest darkest south for winter, I'm thinking of buying a second bike....

[Quasievil]

What reccesion, hyped up media loaded up with buzz words isnt a recession, people have always become redundant, now employers have a great excuse to trim a bit of fat "arhh sorry mate we gotta let you go recession and all that"

Bollocks go out spend up large its all sweet

[BIGBOSSMAN]

It's a crap situation: Made redundant in January, compounding this was we are almost at the end of a new house build.
First toy to go was my 4 month old ZX10R

At least I have redundancy insurance, the layoff has given me a chance to retrain and do a complete change in career.
Sometime this year I'll be a merchant seaman! Land Ho...

It pays well, so I'm figuring maybe sometime next year I'll buy another weapon - maybe the gas turbine powered Gen 4 ZX10R with anti-skid upside down forks!

[FROSTY:Me]

YeP Im gonna give up biking. -as soon as they drag nme kickin and screamin into my grave

[slofox]

Self employed so can't be made redundant...

Give up biking? Nah. Sell the house first...sleep in the back of the shop...

[DMNTD:Me]

I'll get back to y'all when this recession starts
I personally sold a total of $137,000 worth of bikes last week alone...sure ok, there was an $85,000 sale in that but ffs...when will it start?

[Rob Taylor]

Self employed and more work than i can handle....Thinking about upgrading bikes & putting more money into our race bikes...Shit i hope my wife doesnt read this

[Squiggles]

I have read comments about people thinking of selling their bikes, or being told they will have to sell their bikes if things stay the same for a while. Should that be an option to consider for some?

Selling their bikes or their toys? I'm selling a toy (but not because of the recession) but keeping my bikes (I dont drive).

[Str8 Jacket]

Recession or not im seriously having to look at holding of racing this year and start getting rid of some debt. Wont ever give up riding though, my FXR is soo cheap to run, cheaper than taking the train! It'd be stupid not to be riding!!

[MadDuck]

now employers have a great excuse to trim a bit of fat "arhh sorry mate we gotta let you go recession and all that"

Have to disagree where we are concerned. Our business relies heavily on building consents. They are WAY down. The staff cuts happening in our business are numbers I have never seen before. then again if you work in debt collection then you probably have more work than you can cope with.

Would I sell up my bike? Highly unlikely. I am sure I could find remnants of other hobbies I could try and flick.

[Mom]

So far so good then, none of you are affected by the economic downturn. Congratulations! Personally I am over the negativity that is prevalent at the moment, owned a bike shop through the last recession, traded and made a heap of money during the 18-23% inflation rates we had back then, however, you can not ignore the fact that there are people being laid off, and that dont have enough work to make ends meet.

The comments are on here, "selling my bike", "been told I will have to sell my bike" so should that be the first thought? I would have thought not, unless there is debt associated with ownership.

Good on your client DMNTD, that can afford to spend $85K in one go, we should all be so lucky

[EJK]

As a student I am not really on the same boat but for me, to be honest, motorcycling is a very very fun and a life time hobby but never a life.

I'd gladly give up on bike for a better future, hence sold the FXR.

[hospitalfood]

things would have to be serious before I sold a bike ( unless I was selling one to get another ).
would sell my guns, car, tools, cameras, house, misses, and arse first.
not in that order.
would start with my arse.