Cheapest bike you've ever owned?

[CR]

Brought for peanuts? Or simply never had huge running costs? What bike was it? What happened to it?

Any pic's?
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[Groove]

Only ever had 2 bikes, cheapest was a 1991 ZXR 250 in ok condition with less than 20k miles on. Blew up and crashed 1 month later.
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[TheDonUK]

GS500E, Paid £250, it was very high milage, but lasted almost exactly a year, got 30k+ miles out of it...

[stinkwheel]

I was given a bike in bits recently. A Jawa 350. I intend to ride it down to a rally this weekend.

[Gpz 900R]

Paid a pound for a spark plug a few years ago and the guy gave me the bike it was screwed into, Suzuki 120 , had it running and on the road not long after

[extreme3d]

The FZR600 in my profile. Pretty much mint and was sold on ebay as a non runner with suspected 'drastic' gearbox failure. Thinking it would be could be worth more as parts i bid and won it for £300 . Got it home and found all that was wrong was the front sprocket nut had come off...... It took a lot of will power not to ring and tell the previous owner

Unfortunately I lost it a few weeks later to a barbed wire fence, a 6ft drop the other side and a few mad sheep - rebuild in progress

https://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a129/extreme3d51/CopyofFZR600FrontSide40.jpg

[Born2bVile]

Paid £110 for an XS250 in 1985. Sold it in 1988 for £250. Spent about £50 on repairs on the meantime.

Cheers,

Byrnie.
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[craigs23]

My first bike - 1982 CM125C, bought for £220, sold for £600 - that gave me ideas....

[Rookie]

Motobecane '80s moped, for £20. Never bothered getting it running, but it does work. It may not have been the best buy, I couldn't give it away on here.

[killa]

My RXS last year, £200 runs sweet.
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[Mooncatt]

only ever had one cbr400rr nc23 1988 mint condition 30k on the clock paid 1400 for her
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"you always need more chicken"

[Arfdog]

I swapped a Boa Constrictor for my RXS100...
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[Mooncatt]

oooooo i have a boa too and a royal python not as big as that though.....yet
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[Arfdog]

This isn't actually the boa I swapped for the bike, but it gave the perfect opportunity to show off my big girl.. These pics are quite old, at the moment she's 8 foot long and as thick as my leg

The boa I swapped was a 6 footer.
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[Mooncatt]

cant wait for mine to grow that big atm mines only like 3.5-4ft mines only a likkle baby so is my royal shes only 3.5 ft too
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[Arfdog]

Yeah some just don't get very big, how old is yours? I also have a male she lives with, he is just under 6 foot and about half her girth. He won't get much bigger. She definitely is genetically gifted in terms of size.. She'll easily eat four XL rats (1 lb rats) in a feeding session every 10 days. And if I take her out and she doesn't want to go back in her viv, she wraps round my leg and there is no chance of getting her off, she is immensely strong.. very hard work to hold her more than a couple of minutes, as she is really heavy too.
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[Mooncatt]

lol yeah mine doesnt like to go back into the viv either and wraps hiself around my wrist "tight" then hooks his tail in my wrist chain so i cant get him off lol. my boa is only like 1.5years old and eats 2 weener rats per week.
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[Arfdog]

They can be real stubborn.. Also when mine is out she tried to explore, and its difficult to control her as her reach is huge - as can be seen in picture. I have to run round backwards to stop her slithering off onto furniture.

I would also up your rat size/amount if I was you, he won't grow much after the next 6 months so you want to condition him for max size/health by that time. PM me if you want to chat, we might be hijacking this thread!
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[TheDonUK]

I dont trust the way snakes move...

[lilredmachine]

1986 Honda PXR-50. Bought for £75, used for five years (my sister, then me) sold for £100. Bargain.
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[alexhornet]

mine has to be the hornet i just bought, i had a budget of £2000 for a bike and had no idea of what i wanted, then my good friend bought an R6 so had to sell his hornet. i paid £1500 for a V reg with 8000 miles on the clock, and im suprised how easy it is to ride being my first big ish bike.

[NickD]

[mark83]

Hard to say really.....

Cheapest bike I've ever owned?

Probably my gold-platet MV Agusta........
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[Finglonga]

[NSR Mick]

You cant beat free.

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