Yearly Running Costs...

[Renton]

How much does your bike cost to run, annually?

Taking in to account the following:

Insurance
Road Tax
Petrol....also, how many miles do you clock up

MOT's and services are not really applicable.
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[swiftb]

Why arent MOTs and service applicable?

Anyways, I do around 5k per year so not sure exactly of the fuel costs but I get around 10miles to a £1 so maybe around £500ish on fuel.
Tax, however much that is?? £60ish?
Insurance £170ish
service parts £25 ish (no labour)
mot £29
Tyres not every year but averaged out prob £100 a year.

So id say a very approximate £900 (or about £850 without mot and service)

[Renton]

I didn't think MOT's to be applicable because it's a standard price, and servicing...well as we both know, a lot of bikers do that them self.

Thanks for the info tho .
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[Ariel Badger]

I have no tax no MOT and no insurance. My millage is about 50 and it costs me about 3K.
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[The Original Muzza]

Do about 5000 miles combined on the 125 and 600.

125:
80-90mpg, £15 tax, £120 insurance.

600:
35-45mpg, £48 tax, £375 insurance.

Insured the 250 for a month, only done about 100 miles. Cost about £50 just for insurance and petrol that month.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

CB500, £50.50 tax (paid by credit card), £89.25 Fully comp insurance, £29.20 MOT

I get 62mpg, annual mileage varies depending on whether I'm working or not.
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[Jamie S]

DT125 , Minimum millage of 10k per year
Running costs
Tax £15
Mot £30
Insurance £210 3pft
50mpg +2t oil at £8 a ltr

[Jamie S]

oops doubble post

[kawakid]

Thousands.

The fact that I can spend more on 1 shock absorber for my bike, than my mondeos pads & disks (front & back), water pump, timing belt, shock absorber & wishbones & bushes.

Everything is so expensive, it hasn't made it easier having 2 bikes, both inside warranty so both needing dealer servicing. (4000 mile service on my bike was about £120). With the car I buy the parts and a mechanic from work charges me £15 an hour.

Other things are just ridiculous, side fairing Zx9R (Which I dropped), £320. I got a new bumper fully sprayed & colour matched for the Mondeo for £130.
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I've a twin and a 4.

[Aka Matt]

Insurance: ~£280
Tax: £48

Petrol ~£700
Tyres ~£240

Don't really know about servicing costs though but probably £150 in parts?
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[keigs]

Yamaha SR125

Insurance - £100
Tax - £27
Petrol - not a lot of expense at 120mpg


Parts and DIY servicing - £50

I live on the Isle of Man - so no MOT

[Alex A]

Too much.

SP-1:

£500 insurance.
4000 miles: ~£600 Petrol
Tax: £66

Falco (projected costs):

£0 insurance (2nd bike on policy)
8,000 miles: ~£1000 Petrol
Tax: £66

MOT/Service/Consumables - probably add another £400-500 for the year for both bikes.
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[LeeR]

Insurance £102
Tax £66
Fuel £2000
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Total: £2168
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Tyres £189
Parts £500
Oil £100
Servicing inc MOT £1000
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Total: £1789
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Grand Total: £3957

18,000 miles p.a

Had some big jobs this year, ignition lock, discs front and rear, c&s, rear bearings, and two major services (@15k) fell in the same 12 month period.

The good news is that the Scottoiler has saved me a set of c&s so that's at least £150, and the Metzler Tourance are so durable that I'm now only buying 2 sets of tyres each year and not 3 so that's save me another £200
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[27cows]

For the RXS in 2009:

24,700 miles covered.
Fuel - approx. £5 per 100 miles=£1235
2T oil - approx. 600 miles per litre of Tesco £4 muck=£170
Tax=£15
MOT=29.20
Insurance=£66, I think
2xrear tyres@£14.99 each=£29.98
1xfront tyre=£14.99
C&S set=£24.99
2xfront & 1xrear brake shoes@£4.50 per set=13.50
Battery=£5.99
Gearbox oil=approx £10
Spark plugsx5@£3 each=£15
Clutch cable=£8

Grand total=£1631.66 to cover a distance approximate to the circumference of this planet.
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[The Tot]

929 FireBlade

Insurance - £350
Tyres - £500 ( I go through 2 sets of dunlop roadsmarts on a yearly basis)
Servicing - Major ones I get garages to do on a yearly basis - £300-420
Tax - £65
C&S - £120
Brake pads - £70-80 depending on what I use
Fuel - I do about 10k miles a year. I normally fill up every 100 miles which is about 13... £1300 on fuel i guess
Misc Labour on stuff like C&S and tyre fitting etc £250-£300

So it's roughly £2-2.5k a year
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[That_Hornet]

£1015 for insurance

tax on hornet and gpz is £49 each.

fuel i get roughly 100 miles to about £12.

i do roughly 12'000 miles a year

Service is £40 on both (parts only)
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So altogether its £2633.

How depressing.

[reggie]

dt 125 about 2000 miles a month

probaly over 2k a year

[iooi]

Ins £55 with cash back
Tax £66
Milage i do 9K a year comuting. I get 65 to 70 Mpg and put around 13 ltr in a week to cover the 200 miles. So that varies between £10 & £15 depending on the price at the time.
You have gotta add tyres into your pricing as most bikes wil do at least 1 set a year at approx £100 which is what mine cost.

Compared to the car for the same trip its a good 50% cheaper in all area's
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[cyberglass]

R1 and my dl650 just started to run 2 bikes so dunno about fuel
had the dl650 for a while now so pretty much know what she costs me. Just got the R1 so im just going on info i have got from others and rough estimates.

Both Bikes Together.
Insurance £400
Tax £132
mot £80
oil every 4000-6000 £140


TYRES..
Dl650 £20 race scrubs

R1 currently expecting 3500-4000 miles tops so £150

FUEL..... to feckin much
Dl650 around £1200-1300 ( i think) have done 15000 in the last 12 months at around 55-60 mpg dropping to 35+ if im pissing about on her.

R1 only just got her and have been told to expect under 35mpg


Altogether in the next 12 months i can see them costing me just under the £2500 mark..... Christ so much money when i work it out HAHA





EDIT

Dropped the dl a few months back which cost £230 to repair
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Yamaha R1 2005

[Pernig]

Insurance £230
Tax £66
Mileage about 7k. Say an average of 40mpg, 175 gallons of fuel. At an average of £1.05 a litre about £375.

Gives me a total of £671.

Servicing:

MOT £30
Fitting of two new tyres and adjustment of head bearings £55.
Pair of tyres £84
Oil changed twice, once with filter. Also topped up a few times as it seems to burn halfway down the sight glass then stay there. Say 7 litres, about £33.
Oil filter £3
4 spark plugs £5

So £210 servicing all in. The brakes didn't need doing last year.
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[kawashima]

light weight vehicle tax 4000yen/Yr (￡27/Yr)
Mot 70000yen/2Yr (￡476/2Yr)
Insurance 24000yen/Yr (￡163/Yr)
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[27cows]