Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
10yo bikes are still plenty reliable if you buy a decent one. Mine just hit the 25 year mark, and just about to roll over to 0km again, still starts every time.

Paying thousands of dollars more for piece of mind is fine, but if money is tight people should realise that's about the only benefit of buying new. Apart from the rider's taste in bikes of course, but there's no accounting for that.
Than, if say your bike breaks (it'd be another reg/rec)... it'd take hundreds of reg/rec fails to justify the new (probably beige too) bike