Expensive buckets?

[Tyler_94]

Just out of interest, how much have people spent on there buckets?

I was watching some of the buckets at toupo after blowing mine up and there were guys starting after the street stocks and beating them by miles!

What happened to the old days with the cheap standard GL (loncin) engines??

[speedpro]

I wasn't beating anyone on the second day, just keeping dry.
My motor was built over 4-6 years and cost $2,500ish in the end. The rest of the bike is about $5-700. I paid for the porting and machined every bit of the crank so it all added up. Should last years and be cheap to run though. If you look at it on a cost per month/year basis it isn't too bad.

[Kendog]

$2,000 purchase price ready to race.
Maybe spent another $600 on bits and pieces.

[nudemetalz]

My old Loncin 96 ended up costing me $4K to build ...
Even then wasn't as quick as the FXR's

[hmurphy]

I stole my Mum's learner bike, promised I would keep it road legal then took to it with a grinder .

I pretty much f*cked it up so bad it's an ugly pile of crap but is slowly slowly getting there. I have since paid for various bits and bobs but it's been cheap as chips because I have kept it stock until a few days ago. I just bought another FXR150 road legal and all for $600. Yes... a friggin steal.

Basically, if you can, steal from your parents or friends that are desperate to sell their bikes haha. Yes I have made sure my parents got their money back. I try not to be too spoiled.

[Yow Ling]

If you spent 2 to 4k thats still pretty cheap, its like being married, you probably going to be together for a while. The other classes are just short term affairs you will always be changing looking for a newer more attractive model.

Wallace had a bit of a ring round and found the average spend on a Christchurch bucket was $2700. Most buckets down here are FXRs

[Skunk]

My original bucket was a pair of AX100's at a cost of $200. One I got road legal and sold it for $800.
I've changed many things on the bike with stuff I've been given or purchased. The only part still AX100 is the steering head stem and the backbone (don't talk to me about this new fangled 'twin spar' stuff - it'll never catch on).
Total spend is around the $4000 over 6ish years. That includes a few engines (rebuilds), several chambers, wheels, brakes, clipons, fairings, tailpieces etc - all that I still have for the next bucket (which is nearly complete and has cost next to nothing because it's all 'spare parts'.
So has my bucket cost $4000 or the sum of it's parts ($200+tyres)? Depends how you look at it.

$4k over 6 years? That's $670 per year - less than the tyre bill for an F1 bike for a weekend!

[koba]

Mine was $400 initially.
Spare engine (functional) $200 so far
Frame Nothing because I already had it but would have been around $300-$400 on trademe. Say $350
Old used slicks $40
Rear Brake - $71 Shipped.
Rear Rim - Can't remember exact price but say $200
6 Speed Box - Say $150

$1411 At a guess. (including the functional spare engine.)

But the untold story is the labour...

It all adds up a bit but I think that is still quite cheap for what will be quite a good bike when I'm done with it. The expensive bit for me is going to be buying new engine bits to ensure reliability.

[NOID]

yea i must be at the 2-3k mark, it all mounts up rather fast. new bikes getting the $$$ thrown at her soon

[richban]

Got mine for 2k with a spare engine and other bits. Ready to race.

Since then wheel conversion rear shock better bars, blah blah.

With the 2 engine builds and dyno time it must be around 5k all up over 3 years, If I had to pay for all the work done on the engine maybe 10K.

On the day if you had wets on and average Bucket you would be close to the SS's

[Buddha#81:Me]

Ex Setchy FXR, $1k ready to race (sort of) wheel conversion (inc front forks) tailpiece and rear shock and after 4500km of race km since I owned it had to do a engine rebuild. It owes me $2500ish and I've had it for four years or so......Bang for bucks hard to go past. Ive haven't factored in consumables maybe another $500 on tyres and pads etc over that time.

[marsheng]

I did a survey of about 30 riders here in ChCh and the average price was $2700. That's why Buckets is out and F4 is in. Well at least as far as the events organizers are concerned.

[kel]

Bought the FXR for $900, told the wife all it needed was a set of second hand slicks and it would be ready to race And I was probably right but as it turned out I couldn't ride well enough so I needed extra power and grip, couldnt stop crashing so needed to replace everything that brakes - So after carb, pipe, wheel conversion, bars, foot peg brackets, sprockets, wets, more slicks, oversize piston, raised compression, etc etc etc Id say about $2500 (the wife could tell you to the dollar). I now have a strong reliable bike that should last for many years so money well spent!

[Trudes]

I've kept a running cost of how much money I've spent on mine since I bought the rolling frame and engine about 3 years ago. Including paying for some labour and a set of second-hand slicks I'm up to almost 3K.

[fi5hy]

ZXR frame rolling 4 doz piss @$11 a doz motor $30 and a doz piss all up about $90 to start with. new Loncin motor $595.00 cam $200.00 shock $150 tail section $130.00 fairing $80.00 all up over 10 years $1280.00 = $128 per year EAT SHIT PEOPLE