Hells bells! The price of petrol!!

[gijoe1313]

Heheh, my biking has costed me in fuel more than what I ever did in the cage (mind you, it's only a Ford Telstar Orion, languishing on the lawn, out of WOF and Rego )

I still like the look on people's faces when they have the typical following conversation with me..

"Oh, so you got a motorbike then? I guess you got it to save on gas?" (typical non-biker line)

my reply? "Actually, I use more fuel through my bike than I ever did in the car! $600 a month more!"

All relative I guess, as bikers we get "it" more than a standard cage driver ever would ... it ain't about the numbers (though some are more important to bikers ), it ain't about the price of incidentals .... it's about doing what we love and maybe meeting a few like-minded souls along the way to enjoy our passion!

Make mine a triceratops, followed by a whale and to finish off, a stegadon to get me home!

[SPman]

I'm used to $1 per litre in Qld, though even that's gone up to (shock) $1.20 lately.

Hovering around $1.35 atm.

[hospitalfood]

im with the not think about it group.....

[Blue Velvet]

And your $60 works out as how much per hour?

At least 8 hours at legal speeds

At $7.50 per hour thats cheap entertainment...

+1

It's always worth the money IMHO, and I always take the long route to work

[janno]

Hovering around $1.35 atm.

Tis $1.18 this morning. Qld, not the rest of aus. Which makes it $1.40 unzud. But I should stop whingeing, if I look at it like I'm paying an extra 30c a litre not to ride in mid thirties heat and 90% humidity, things look rather more appealing!

[fireball]

im with the not think about it group.....

i agree!

i made the mistake of looking at the price when filling the rental car in fox i think,..... it was pumping at $1.87 that was the most expensive fill not cool but hey you want to get around you will pay what you have to

[Coyote]

I never get to ride for the hell of it. And all my riding is on the motorway. Sigh...

[TRAINING WHEELS]

Dont think of $$ for fuel pay for 3 bikes every day + a car adds to 2k approx a month so now that the car only gets used 4 times a month at best i dont even bother about how much riding i do and how ofton the 3 bikes get filled....In saying that i dont have kids, Drink much, or smoke that ofton, or even any HP's so i can enjoy all my free cash....But if things were different im not sure how i will be.

[ynot slow]

We use supermarket dockets not the 4c ones but at the moment 15c after spending $40 at countdown and it's available in shell and gull for a month after groceries paid for,put 52 ltr in car on saturday saved $7.50 ish,we also use pak,n,save as well but they are for only 10 days or so and only at their pumps in the town you are buying from.

[Renegade]

dosnt bother me, my car was $40 a week on gas plus $25 for parking, now i park for free and fill the bike for $22 once a month, bike will pay for itself over 3 years if i keep it that long, which i wont.

[Mom]

I always think twice sometimes..

I didn't know you were Irish Bananaman!

Petrol is not a luxury in this household. We run a couple of 4 wheeled vehicles for work, I hate filling mine thats why I have a bike now, the van is a must have or we cant earn vehicle so petrol is a fact of life for it. Weekend fuel purchases are as important to us as breathing, fill the tank and off we go!

I recommend anyone struggling with the cost of petrol, put a ride out on their bike as a top priority in their budgets, and spend accordingly so they can get out there and live!

[inlinefour]

If people are getting depressed about the price of fuel now, what is it going to be like once it goes over two dollars a litre? Don't poohoo the idea either as many think that its just a matter of time.

Oh and $60 for 800km ain't bad either, could also be much worse on another type of bike fanging it...

[dogsnbikes]

I dont care about the price of petrol its the freedom that the bike provides that gives me my high,

[Hawkeye]

dosnt bother me, my car was $40 a week on gas plus $25 for parking, now i park for free and fill the bike for $22 once a month, bike will pay for itself over 3 years if i keep it that long, which i wont.

Bloody hell. $22 a month. Where you commuting from - Cuba st.
I can use $22 on a Sunday playing on the hill.

(just don't tell the wife )

[Brett]

Meh...as the price of petrol goes up, just have to find new ways of making money to afford the toys. Assets= good.