Average monthly running costs of YOUR bike?

[Cronik]

Please let Cronik know

Bike:
Miles Per Month:
Cost:

Stupid question, I agree.
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[DRZ4Hunned]

DRZ400

200 miles p/month (often less)

Insurance - £8.30, Tax - £3.30 (I think?), MOT - £2.50, Fuel - £20?, Parts - £20?

Total: £54.1 give or take a bit
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FZS600

[notbike]

Bike: Ninja 300
Miles Per Month: 400ish averaged out*
Cost: 30 quid petrol per month, up to & around £600 for tyres, servicing, and other parts every year if i get it serviced twice per year and replace the tyres once per year.

*That's just average over the year and a half I've owned it though. There's been months where I've not ridden much at all (Only couple miles every few days), and times where I've put on my monthly average in one day.

Shit man, I need to ride more, but I'm selling my bike in September anyway to upgrade.

[M.C]

MT-03 (old 660cc)

250 miles per month

Cost... £30 fuel p/m, £47 tax/MOT/insurance (will be £26 next year), £4 p/m servicing using expensive oil, don't do enough miles to eat sprockets & tyres.

Just over £80 a month Dam you, sounds a lot when you put it like that.

[thx1138]

the one I sold yesterday

200 miles a month
£0.04 a mile in petrol


factor in insurance, first service, and depreciation, and I don't wanna do the maths. but probably somewhere between 50p and a £1 a mile

[ScaredyCat]

Bike: NC700X
Miles/Month: 864
Fuel : £36.66

Budgeting £36.67/mo for tax, insurance, tyres, servicing

£73.33 / Month - about 8p/mile
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[thx1138]

[Teflon-Mike]

CB-Seven-Fifty
Aprox £500 a year / £10 per week all in;
tax (£82), insurance (£100) MOT (£30), fuel & servicing
Aprox 3ooo miles a year
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[stevo as b4]

Don't know, don't care! I put 3tanks of fuel in it last year, and drained most of the third tank out and tipped it by my neighbours garden at the weekend.

Classic insurance is about £85-90 FC, and does anybody even care about bike tax as it's pennies compared to a nice car.

[Copycat73]

3 @ £500 pa/bike..all inclusive ..
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[pompousporcup...]

Bike1: GPZ500
Miles Per Month: 300-400 miles
Cost: Insurance - 18 pm, fuel - 40-60 pm, tax - 4.98 pm

Bike2: yzf600r thundercat
Miles Per Month: 300-400 miles minus the ones done on the gpz..
Cost: Insurance - 65 pm, fuel - 40-60 pm minus the fuel put in ther gpz, tax - 5.50 pm

[NJD]

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Answer to question is cheap enough.

[Rogerborg]

I'll have my butler contact my accountant to chase up the mechanic, shall I?

We'll all use different metrics, so there's no grounds for useful comparison.

Fuelly figures for my bikes are representative of what I'm getting, insurance is low for me, and they're light on consumables, which can be had inexpensively. Any more detail would be superfluous sperging.
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[Cronik]

[Polarbear]

Bike: Triumph Trophy 1215 SE Launch Edition.
Miles: About 100 over the past few months
Costs: More in polish than petrol.
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[NJD]

In english? You want a bike on a budget and want to get a rough figure of costs?

125.

Or have I missed something?

[Cronik]

[talkToTheHat]

I'm proper high risk. Insurance is about 300 for the year for the bandit, was about half that on the xv535 but it took a long time to get that low.

Monthly mileage varies massively, but i'm up to maybe 12k/year. 46mpg on the bandit from my own fuelly data, that currently means 10p/mile, 100miles on a tenner, or an average of 100 pounds a month on petrol.

This is an increase in mileage, i was doing about 5k/year until about a year ago.

3 oil changes at about 25pounds each and a major (valve clearance) service at 250 pounds. A set of tyres or maybe two at 250 pounds a time. 50 quid for brake pads.

Virago would need sometning fixing every few thousand miles as it was old as an old thing and knackered. Can't comment on the bandit.

4 year old hein gericke textile jacket (99 pound epic closing discount, usually ablut 250 iirc) just replaced (with 140 pound rst), trousers are up next, having done 3 years. I was wearing leathers in good weather and those are doing fine. Retired a hjc helmet after 3 years as it was falling apart. I dont think my 300 pound shark helmet will make it to the end of it's warranty.

i lose at least 3 neck tubes a year. 10 pounds.

That's a lot of money i spend. But i take the bike everywhere and do more than 4x the milage of an average bike owner. Bus and train vastly more expensive. I think i justified dropping 500 pounds in j&s kitting out the girlfriend as that paid for itself in two weekends away comared to just trains for the both of us. Petrol was less than she had budgeted for taxi to the station. Plus we got to do all kinds of random adventures on the way, like stopping at donnington museum rather than the nearby motorway services.

I think a hardcore sportsbike would likely cost marginally more to run, and anythinf with a full fairing or hard to get to parts will bump up service costs. I had a long chat at my local independent about what's cheap to keep in parts and what's easy to work on. Within my budget that put the oil-cooled bandits and fazers to the top of the list.

Another consideration is parts availability. My 92 virago was plagued with waiting for parst from japan and was off the road for a while, costing me a lot in alternative arrangements. Even finding tyres was a bitch. Compare that to something that sold in big numbers and consumable parts will be in stock and spares available by overnight courrier.
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[Northern Monkey]

Are you the sperg that has been thinking about doing a cbt for 9 months now.

It's a 6 hour course, not a life changing event.
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[wr6133]

ZZR400

Between 1200-1800 miles a month
Tax was I think £38, IIRC insurance was about £70

No idea what I spend on petrol monthly, it returns about 40MPG. Fuel economy is piss poor because it spends its life getting thrashed between 10K and the redline. I put a ZZR600 engine in yesterday so fuel economy should actually improve.

Vclic

Around 300 miles a month
Tax £17, insurance £55

MPG is around 60, was better but then I big bored it.

[Rogerborg]

[Cronik]

[Northern Monkey]

Instead of replying to this thread, type 'motorcycle training near me' into google, phone up the first one on the list, and ask if you can do a CBT tomorrow.

If it takes 7 months to pass a CBT, then you might as well plan skipping the A2 and go straight to the A. You can do that once your 24, and 5 years doesn't seem an unreasonable amount of time to make a decision to start.
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[NJD]

Can I call pointless thread is pointless? That being since OP hasn't even done a CBT yet and is probably going to ask question after question like he's adding bricks to a wall one by one until it becomes the great wall of china and gets nowhere, ever.

Quit fannying around and as above go look for a local training school and book your CBT, to memory that costs about a little over a hundred to just a bit more for a guaranteed pass (free return day training) and then you'll know where you want to go from there.

What's all this devil crap about? My face attempting to unravel your posts are just like Confused Shocked

Tef?

[rubyhorse2]

your a student..stop worrying about money and whats the most sensible thing to do. JUST DO IT.

you'll have plenty of time for all that worrying when your an old git