Cost to own a motorcycle

[wysper]

Sorry Sinned - its not about the dollars for me and never will be. My beautiful Ducati gives me grins, pleasure, heart stopping moments, has found me new friends, reconnected me with old ones, kept me sane, kept me alive, given me memories of people, places, of LIVING. Those things can never be about dollars, never be accounted for with pluses and minuses on a ledger.

Forget about the dollars - just enjoy the sheer power and beauty of each and every ride.

For me the thread ended here
My bike is my commuter too, now my daughter is riding pillion with me (this is just awesome - scary as hell - but awesome), plus I just like riding.

I ride because I like to ride. Not because it is cheaper, faster, slower, stauncher (is that a word?), cooler - whatever.

[ducatilover]

"I bought my bike to save petrol"...

ahah ahah ahah

yeah right

...fool...

EDIT: Actually, I bought it so I could go fanging around the countryside pissing psople off and scaring little children and livestock in my dotage...

Good coont

[Bald Eagle]

Sorry Sinned - its not about the dollars for me and never will be. My beautiful Ducati gives me grins, pleasure, heart stopping moments, has found me new friends, reconnected me with old ones, kept me sane, kept me alive, given me memories of people, places, of LIVING. Those things can never be about dollars, never be accounted for with pluses and minuses on a ledger.

Forget about the dollars - just enjoy the sheer power and beauty of each and every ride.

+ thats what its all about .

[Bald Eagle]

Do the sums - it may drive you back to 4 wheels

Never

[neels]

I'm not going to add up how much my bike costs to own, I don't care. I own it because I like riding a motorbike. If the day comes that I can't afford to own it anymore then I'll sell one of the children and that should cover me for a few years rego and insurance.

If the numbers on here are anything to go by, for the amount of fun I have it's a bargain at about $30 a week, certainly more fun than the $50 a week I pay the council for the privilege of living in my house.

[Banditbandit]

It is cheaper to drive the car.

Yes it is .. I convinced the wife to let me buy anothe rcommuter bike because it was cheaper ...

No it's not ... esoecially if you add $10 in rubber each day. (100ks to and from work X 30 trips = 3,000. I ripped out a $300 rear tyre in 3,000ks ...)

But fuck is it a lot more fun .. and makes for a better day rather than stuck in fuck'n cages all the time ...

[Mort]

Given that I have already bought, insured and WOF'd and rego'd my bike.... for commuting in to Auckland it was cheaper on fuel, free to park and faster than using a car. Commuting isn't its primary purpose (ie I bought it to ride for fun) but it did help pay for itself by keeping essential travel costs down.

[ffirman]

I agree that on the face of it the bike won't save money over using the car for the traveling.

Now I use my bike everyday to commute to and from work. Approx 30km each day, so not very far, and the time difference between the car and bike is minimal, as I leave for work around 6:45am. I don't like being stuck in traffic, and most of the time can't be fagged pushing my way though.

Now with the first 6000km done on my Ninja 650r, it has averaged around 19km/l of fuel, so that is doing better than the car that was around 10. But the biggest saving for me, was that I was able to hand back my carpark at work, and that got me back approx $40 per week, and that makes up quite a bit of difference to the costs.

Just a thought for ye all.

Fran

[Vinz0r]

When I was driving the cage to and from work I was paying $10 a day to park in the city (this was cheap all day parking in a parking complex), so that's $50 p/w I am saving by taking the bike instead due to the free motorcycle parking around the place. The same can be applied to parking meters

[Gremlin]

My KTM (costs above) is not really used for work or commuting, just fun km (lots of them).

The hornet would be a very different prospect, which is used for commuting etc. Servicing is cheap, $50 per 1000km, tyres are probably half the cost of the KTM, if not a bit less than half.

Just interesting to see how much fun costs Will it make me change? Never!

[dilligaf_nz]

If I didnt spend the money on bikes it would probably go on all the pills and Doctors to keep me sane from a high pressure job. Its a great release for me and the sense of freedom and enjoyment I get out of it is well worth it.

Perfectly said

[skippa1]

Sorry Sinned - its not about the dollars for me and never will be. My beautiful Ducati gives me grins, pleasure, heart stopping moments, has found me new friends, reconnected me with old ones, kept me sane, kept me alive, given me memories of people, places, of LIVING. Those things can never be about dollars, never be accounted for with pluses and minuses on a ledger.

Forget about the dollars - just enjoy the sheer power and beauty of each and every ride.

What he says

[Conquiztador]

I always thought running a bike was costly but didn't know how much until I added it up. That little jaunt on a Sunday costs a lot more than the flat white or lunch.

My running amounts to a bit over 10,000kms per year and I will probably keep this bike for 5 years. Excluding the cost of money invested the bike is costing me around $6000 a year. Here are my calculations of cost per 1000kms on a 10,000km year:
Front tyre (12K) $18.57
Rear tyre (8k) $41.25
Services (6k) $85.00
WOF $4.00
Insurance $78.00
Fuel $109.00
Registration $57.80
Loss on sale est $160.00
TOTAL $553.62 per 1000kms.
Plus other little expenses; helmet, gloves, gear, chains, broken stuff etc.

It is cheaper to drive the car.

Do the sums - it may drive you back to 4 wheels

U full of shit

Here mine for 50,000k's/year (and I ride, not use her as some ornament in the garage)

Front tyre $400 (two or about)
Rear tyres $700 (3)
Insurance: $0 (fuck em)
Services: $0 (know how to use a spanner)
Chain: $0 (shaft)
Oil: $ 300 (decent stuff every 10,000k's)
Filters: $ 45 (every second oil change)
WOF: $80 (twice a year)
Rego: $500 (bastards!!!)
Depreciation: Fuck me dead! If she is depreciating you bought a dud!
Fuel: 4.5l/100k makes $2,250.

Add to that a JD & Dry every 500k or so making it 100 of them at $7 ea = $700.

She costs me $ 4,975/year. Divide with the 50,000k's and per 1,000k's she costs me $99.50

That's what happens when you dont complete school.

[ducatilover]

U full of shit

Here mine for 50,000k's/year (and I ride, not use her as some ornament in the garage)

Front tyre $400 (two or about)
Rear tyres $700 (3)
Insurance: $0 (fuck em)
Services: $0 (know how to use a spanner)
Chain: $0 (shaft)
Oil: $ 300 (decent stuff every 10,000k's)
Filters: $ 45 (every second oil change)
WOF: $80 (twice a year)
Rego: $500 (bastards!!!)
Depreciation: Fuck me dead! If she is depreciating you bought a dud!
Fuel: 4.5l/100k makes $2,250.

Add to that a JD & Dry every 500k or so making it 100 of them at $7 ea = $700.

She costs me $ 4,975/year. Divide with the 50,000k's and per 1,000k's she costs me $99.50

That's what happens when you dont complete school.

So, if I do good maffs I get JDs & Ginger ale?

[MaxB]

For mine it is the time a bike saves that makes it worthwhile. There can be an hour difference in my commute across Auckland. Cost doesn't come into it.