Tight git

[nick.h]

I've been riding a few years now and the most i've spent on a bike is £1200, I'm getting on and I want to get a better bike soon. Aiming for a tl1000r for around 2k, which made me realise for the last 8 years i've been a right tight git with bikes.

Rieju RS1 Evolution - dad paid for this
Suzuki GS500e - £950 (insurance payout)
Suzuki GSX600F - £1200 (insurance payout)
Honda CG125 - free
Pug Elyseo 125 - £140
Yamaha YZF750R -£800
Yamaha Thunderace £500

Am I the only tight git out there?
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[Italjet MM5A] ll [Rieju RS1 Evolution] ll [Suzuki GS500e] ll [Suzuki GSX600F] ll [Honda CG125] ll [Pug Elyseo 125] ll [Yamaha YZF750R] ll [Yamaha Thunderace] ll [Yamaha R6] ll [Triumph 955i] ll [Hayabusa RZK3] ll [Suzuki RGV250] ll

[P.]

No

I am such a cheap sod.

Honda CLR125 '01 - £600
Honda CBR125 '06 -£330
Hyosung GT125 '08 - £1800
Suzuki GS500 '93 - £400
Suzuki GS500 '97 - £60
Kawasaki KH125 '89 - £180
Yamaha FZR600 '89 - £60
Triumph Daytona 600 '04 - £2800 (ok.. it was good)
Masai DB125H '08 - £450
Honda CBR125 '05 - £800
Aprilia RS125 '00 - £Trade for guitar amp
Suzuki SV650 '00 - £owned too short...never paid.
Honda CLR125 '00 - £150
Honda CBR125 '05 - £20
Honda CBR125 '06 - £100
Yamaha XJ600S '93 - £700
Suzuki GSXR750Y '00 - £1000
Honda CB TwoFifty '98 - £100
Suzuki Bandit 600 '00 - £180
Yamaha YZF600R '99 - £1100
Yamaha TT600R SM '02 - £1200
Honda CBR600RR '03 - £Trade for above + £400
Kawasaki ZX6R '98 - £300
Honda Varadero '07 - £650
Suzuki Bandit 400 - £80 essentially.. pickup and stuff
Moto Roma RDG125 '07 - £137
Yamaha WR450F '05 - £ssshhhh

If I'm right.. nearly 14k of bikes since June 2007.

[krarkol]

taiwanese ped £300
brand new piaggio zip £1100
suzuki gn125 £800
honda cbr125 £1500 (my dad helped with 500 so i paid a grand )
suzuki bandit 600 £1195

The way I see it, bikes are unstable and can be damaged so easily at any speed. The cheaper it is to buy, the less shit I feel if I drop it

No doubt if I get a good career and good money I'll buy something really decent as I could afford the repairs. Until then I'm happy having something that works
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Bandit 600 - deaded

[Wave2k]

RS125=2100
CBR400=1800
GSXR750K2=3900
Ducati749S=6200
CBR600RR5=3500
DRz400e=1000
TL1000R=2500
RSVR1000=5900
Honda SP1=2500
CBR400=800
GSXR1000K6=4750

£35350 since May 2004

Though it doesnt take into account that i sold these bikes, some even for a profit.
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Ducati 1299 Panigale
2009 Corvette C6 z51
RS125->CBR400->RXS100->GSXR750K2->Ducati749S->CBR600RR5->TL1000R->DRz400->RSVR1000->Honda VTR SP1->CBR400->GSXR1000K6->Honda H100->CBR600RR3->Ducati1299

[uberkron]

Na, suzuki gp125, $50. Suz. Gs850, $300, honda today, $210.
Then i stopped being tight and bought a piaggio zip for $2250!.
Ive spent very little on cars over the years, normally i pay scrap value and repair them. I did spend $2500 for a grown ups car recently. Too old at 26 for carpetless cars with missing trim and multicolor panels, hard to be taken seriously as a repairer of vehicles when you drive a shitter.

All of the bikes were road worthy, and needed only oil changes and adjustments. Bought from people that had parked them up after giving up on biking due to age, health or family resons.
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i ride a zip 50 2smoke. It overtakes a hundred times a day.

[uberkron]

Na, suzuki gp125, $50. Suz. Gs850, $300, honda today, $210.
Then i stopped being tight and bought a piaggio zip for $2250!.
Ive spent very little on cars over the years, normally i pay scrap value and repair them. I did spend $2500 for a grown ups car recently. Too old at 26 for carpetless cars with missing trim and multicolor panels, hard to be taken seriously as a repairer of vehicles when you drive a shitter.

All of the bikes were road worthy, and needed only oil changes and adjustments. Bought from people that had parked them up after giving up on biking due to age, health or family resons.
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i ride a zip 50 2smoke. It overtakes a hundred times a day.

[Joncrete Cungle]

The two most expensive and newest bikes I have ever owned both got nicked while 'chained' up When I get a different bike now I tend to stick to a budget of £1000 - £2000, I prefer to let someone else take the big hit on depreciation.

[dransy]

Where do you all get these bargains from I can never find any !
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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles

[sidewinder]

Late night bids on e-bay
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"Nitrous is like a cheap hooker, you want to hit it but are scared of the consequences

[barrkel]

Hmmm. Never bought a bike more than 3 years old, which accounts for prices:

Vity 125 - 1300 (comprehensive insurance included, good thing as stolen)
PS 125 - 1300 (written off in crash, other car insurance paid out)
YBR 125 - 1200
ER6f - 3500 (YBR part exchanged against this)
SH300 '11 - 4000 (sold to GF for 2000 after several drops)
SH300 '12 - 4000

Actual net outlay, no more than about 5,500 over 4 years or so.

Having become an ABS fan with the SH300, I do not want to buy another bike without it, which limits how old I can go and still buy effective systems.
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Bikes: S1000R, SH350; Exes: Vity 125, PS125, YBR125, ER6f, VFR800, Brutale 920, CB600F, SH300x4
Best road ever ridden: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MhNxUEYtQ

[chris-red]

RXS100 - £250
Bandit 600 - £1500
Speed Four - £3000
GS500 - £700
TDM900 - £2500
KTM EXC 520 -£1000


I still have them all except the Suzukis.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[Derivative]

CG125 625GBP
CB500 1600GBP

Though, had I understood the reasoning behind 'winter hack', I'd have probably spent less on the CB.

The pretty looking lack of rust doesn't last long if you don't have a garage.

That's since August 2010.

[T0MMY]

I'm tight when it comes to buying vehicles but then piss loads of money up the wall on trackdays so I think I'm doing it right Always said I'll never spend more than 10% of my take home salary on cars and bikes...I don't think you need to, although I'm tempted by a kit car which might have to break that rule.

My MX5 was £1300 and my ZX6R was £800 and I honestly don't think spending 10 times as much would have got vehicles all that much more fun or suited to track use so why bother?
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ZX6R + CBR600RR

[Derivative]

[T0MMY]

Plus the other thing is that neither of my vehicles will have depreciated by a penny over the 2 years I've had them. In fact I suspect the ZX is probably worth more now than it was then.

Basically unless you are a bit of a tart then I don't see why you'd buy anything less than 10 years old
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ZX6R + CBR600RR

[tatters]

Have to rack my brains a bit to remember them all, Since 2003


NRG 50 - £600
AF1 125 - £600
AF1 125 - £250
NSR125RR - £1000
ZZR250 - £800
CX500 - Free
VFR400 - £800
KR-1S - £1100
ZZR600 - £600
ZZR600 - £580
CB400N - £400
YZF1000R - £2000
KH125 - £300
Z200 - £250
FX400R - £500
CBR954RR - £4750
CBR954RR - £5200
GPZ500S - £300
GT550 - £400
VFR750 RC36 - £1200
VFR750 RC36 -£800
RD350N - £800
XR650R - £2800
CBR600F3 - £1600
CB250 - £250
KDX250 - £800
YZF750R - £900
CRM250 - £800
KTM400EXC - £2500
KLR650C - £1100
TTR600RE - £1400
DR350S - £1000
R100GSPD - £3500
RGV250 - £1200
G650XC - £2500
BSA C12 - Free


In total £45180


Mostly cheap bikes around £1k and l normally sell them for around what l paid, though majority of my costs over the past years have been servicing/repairing and altering them.
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Past:NRG50,AF1125(x2),NSR125RR,ZZR250,CX500,VFR400,KR1S,ZZR600(x2),CB400N,YZF1000(x2),KH125,Z200,FX400R,CBR954RR(x2)GPZ500S,GT550,VFR750F(x2),RD350N,XR650R,CBR600F,CB250,KDX250,YZF750R,CRM250,400EXC,KLR650,TTR600RE,DR350S,R100GSPD,RGV250,VMAX1200,DL650,KZ750 Present:G650XC,C12,CRF450X,1190ADV

[Pete.]

[pepperami]

Kin Ell!! you lot is mad , all that money!

X2 jawas = £80
CG 125 £150
Sachs xtc 125 = free on long term loan, gone back to it`s owner now
However if I was to tot up the price of trying to get them road-worthy .

My other two bikes I paid more for, but they are long term keepers so the price will be spread over a loooong time.
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[instigator]

2002
Kymco Zing 125 - £900

2005 onwards
Kawasaki ER5 - £1100
Honda Hornet 600 - £1350
Suzuki SV650S - £1200
Kawasaki ZX6R - £1800
Honda Firestorm - £1800
Yamaha YZF750R - £1300
Suzuki SV650X - £400
Yamaha XJ600 - £400
Kymco Zing 125 - FREE
Suzuki SV650S - £1600

2007 onwards
Suzuki GSXR-600 - £1000
Kawasaki ZX6R - £1600
Honda CB500 - £750


2008 onwards
Suzuki GSXR-1000 K2 - £2750
Honda Fireblade - £2000
Suzuki SV650S - £1400
GPZ500S - £700
GSXR-600 SRAD - £1200
Bandit 1200 - £1300
Honda VFR400 - £1200
Honda Hornet - £1600
Suzuki GSXR-1000 - £2400
Suzuki SV650S - £1200
Kawasaki Versys - £4500
xj600f - £700
ZX600 G1 - £800
Suzuki GSXR-1000 £1400

October 2011 onwards
BMW F650 - £1100
Honda Hornet - £900
CB1 - £700
Honda SP1 - £2750
Suzuki GSXR-1000 - £3750
Triumph 675 Daytona - £4200
Honda CB500 - £600
Suzuki SV1000S - £1950
Triumph Speed Four - £1550
BMW F650 - £910
Honda CB1 - £450

Approx £57k and I figure theres about ten bikes missing from that list. The money doesn't mean anything relaly as when I sell one, I invest in another. It's adisease.

[Rogerborg]

New HN125-8 £720 delivered and registered.
1 year old LF250-B £700 (went a bit mad there).
GPz305 £450
GPZ500S - swapped it for the 3 year old HN125-8.

= £1850 all in, plus what I've spent doing unnecessary fiddling.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Shaane]

2000 Speedfight 2 - £400
1992 DT125 - £700
1999 ZX6R - £1750
2005 ZX636R - £3200

£6050 Without expensive Akra systems and bits of shit I didn't need
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EMRA Roadstock #92 - Paperwork Permitted.
Previous: 1992 DT125R
Current: ~ 2005 ZX6R C1H

[alexknight200...]

Damn, wheres the cruisers in your lists.

Your missing out man.
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Current stable: Yamaha XVS 650 1996 - Honda Super Magna VF750 1988.

[P.]

[darthbuttchin]

BSA C12 - Free

How did you get a C12 for free?!

I've only had/got one bike, so I'm only at £145 for my '78 CG - it came in 2 boxes ...snd now leaks oil like an old British bike
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CG125-K1 (1978) - 35 years old and (mostly) going strong! (Restored and rebuilt by my own fair hands).
Call me Tomsk - I am the Flying Womble after all.

[alexknight200...]

Different class. I suppose we can't all afford one.

I'll get me coat.