Whats the most you've spent on your bike!!

[king kong]

My bike and I are in the dog house with Mrs KK. I have 1998 GSX750F, its probably worth £1,500 at a push. It gets me to work everyday.
But It needed a full service, I've only ever had minor ones previousley. The front brakes also started to bind, it was nearly impossible to push along, and it needed new chain and sprockets.

I don't have the 3 'T's - Time, Tools or Talent to do the basics, so in it went to local bike garage.

Full Service, Chain and Sprockets, New front tyre (it was getting a bit low on tread), Left hand front brake disc, labour to dismantle te calipers etc. And the bill came to a wopping £724.65.

I was expecting something in the £300 region. After picking my jaw up from the floor I managed to negotiate a cash payment of £600, effectivley wiping out the VAT. But this meant picking the bike up after hours - not getting the receipt nor my log book stamped.

Having said that - the bike rides & feels absolutley brilliant now.

Whats your worst damage.

[Gazdaman]

Jesus christ!

C&S and tyre, £200 max. You can do C&S yourself.

Depends what a full service means. I'd hope it's an oil change, and valve clearances maybe carbs balanced. Never paid for a service, always do them myself, but maybe friends have paid £300.

Disks are fairly expensive.
And it's not even an hour to strip calipers. I reckon I could do a good job of caliper rebuilds in 30mins.

It's expensive, but I suppose not completely extortionate. Of that £600, probably half was costs. Depending if you got new pads in the calipers. So they've cleared £300 profit for a few hours work.

Most I've ever spent on my bike is probably a pair of crap tyres off eBay for £70.

Gaz

[butterob]

my god man! u need to get yourself a cheap tool set and start learning theres a hell of a lot u can do yourself i mean a service is easy! oil and filter plus just look at some of the help guides on this website especially for brakes. Chain and sprockets can be a pain becuase you'll need a decent chain splitter but it can be done plus its handy to have for future bikes. Just get a haynes manual and one of those halford sets and get learning
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[LeeR]

Well my most recent (and definitely the last) experience of a local mechanic I thought was good cost me £406 for a major service inc valve clearances, and a replacement clutch slave cylinder.

As I've described elsewhere on the forum, some of the work I asked for wasn't done. Some of it I wasn't charged for and some of it I was, but really annoyingly they over-filled my oil for a second, and now last time.

My missus was annoyed that I'd been ripped off, not that I'd spent so much. She realises the bike is fundamental to my being at work safely, reliably and on time so the cost is to a point irrelevant, though the day-light robbery isn't.
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[lllN30lll]

I think you've been robbed to be honest.

700+ quid for a full service, C+S, and new front tire seems far too steep.

I know you didn't get a receipt, but did they show you a breakdown of the final bill? cost of items, labour etc.

and the original question, most spent is 250 quid for my Racefit exhaust.
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[Moonie]

That is ridiculous, I used to service bikes and we would never have charged that much.

What disks and tyres did you get?

Get a tool kit and a Haynes manual and get learning, it's surprisingly easy.
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[kitty kat]

I am a mere female and can service my bike myself, change c & s and adjust clutch. On a previous bike I did the fork oil and replaced the alternator rotor. It is not rocket science, all you need are some fairly basic tools and a good manual.
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[Duckyboos]

Last service on the old ZXR400 included a clean-up of the K&N, new oil and filter, new plugs, new discs all round, new pistons and seals, and about 6 hours labour at £40/hours (including test-riding no doubt) to sort out the fuel float 'cos it wouldn't go uphill... and I live at the top of a ruddy great one. Total bill = £632.

It rode like a dream after that, and was nicked from my garden two weeks later

[LeeR]

Ooh nasty, have some karma to make up for the loss.
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[chris-red]

My TDM900 had a full major sercive and a new rear tire at a main dealer for £450.
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[kawakid]

You choose to live South of Sheffield, you have to accept the consequences.

Seriously though, don't go to a dealer with a 10 year old bike, even if you can't do stuff yourself go round a few places first. Ask on here or with local mates for good/cheap places to go.

My worse was on the car £1600. (New engine 3 year old car).
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[mentali-juan]

£580 from a main dealer which was the first & last time I ever took it there again.

That was a 24,000 mile service with valve clearances,which I thought was steep.
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[PeterNSR]

Top end rebuild=£440
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[trevoriv]

Most I have paid for a full service including new chain and sprockets, new air and oil filters, new plugs and new bearings was £382 including labour and VAT.

Still a bit expensive but since i also dont really have much spare time it was worth it.
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[Wave2k]

£320 for a service on my Ducati 749S with cam belt change.
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[Fahd]

£600 sounds like a good price for a full service...






































...If he chucked in a free motorbike! Sound's like you just got financially arse-raped.
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[Graham88]

£600 and you think that's a good deal!?!?

When I first got my VFR I had it restricted and full service and that was £300 and I felt raped, so glad I learnt how to do it myself.

[Fadel]

Most for me is 56 quid for a new C+S set lol
For any bike it's probably the 105 quid recovery fee I had to pay when one got stolen

[Nicky-Jano]

Most I've spent is £230 and that's on my CB 400, as you can guess it was the price of the restriction kit and labour.
That would have been the end of it but I came off when I hit some dodgy road.
I've had to change the clutch/engine case, buy a new front wheel as the rim has a huge chunk taken out of it (courtesy of a curb).
New right side indicators, clocks, right foot peg, headlight, mudguard, front disks (their a bit warped and their stuck slightly, and possibly the forks but haven't got it moving to find out yet.
Waiting for my front wheel to be delivered .

[Barry_M2]

I spend an absolute fortune on engine tuning parts for my bike(s). Hundreds! The ZXR engine alone has around £700+ in parts spent on it, but luckily I can do all the work myself. Then if you add on the Suter dry clutch conversion I've just brought too, that alone cost £500, onto of whats already been spent!

I remember taking and old ZXR400 to a back street garage when I was about 19 (14 years ago) and didn't know alot about engines, as it had snapped a rocker arm. Ended up costing about £400 odd I think, which is alot when you're young and earning crap money!

It was from that moment on I decided to learn about engines etc... and do it all myself. Haven't looked back since, and would never take my bike to a shop ever again. There is one place I would trust with my engines (other than myself) if I didn't have the equipment to do it myself
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[cicatrez]

not counting buying it and insuring it..
Probably the £12 on 2 tanks of petrol
Other then that, about £10 in washers and bearings etc..
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[Seb]

Most I've ever spent on a bike service was my last one on the Fut, it started out as a simple oil/plugs/filters and check everything was screwed together right run, then the comedy plastic fuel line connector snapped at the last second, and to rub it in the lower section of the loom gave up the ghost causing all manner of electrical shorts till we got to the bottom of it.

Thankfully it was round a mates rather than in a big dealer, final tally for everything was at the 260 mark, I'd safely bet that would have cleared 600 quid at somewhere like Bridge or SP.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

£250 for a full service plus brake fluid change. The bike had been home serviced previously when I bought it, but I didn't know when each job had last been done, so I figured it was worth the money just to have a base line for me to start from.
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