How did you pay for your bike!?!?!

[GearboxGeezer]

With cash?????

No really.

Ok I was wondering, Since alot of you seem to be very dedicated riders, but yet not all snoobby and rich summer time power ranger people.

So anyway, How long did it take you to save up for your bike?
Have you paid for it fully yet ? ( Taken out a loan ? )
Did you get 5 jobs at one time?
Well?

[Essex_Mike]

i'm paying finance on my bike. 50 odd quid a month over 2 years
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[ranna]

Took me about half a year to be able to afford the bike. Alot of hardwork really does pay off.

Paid in cash in full

Bike : 2006 gsxr750 with heaps of mods lol

Financial position now: dont ask
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[Nath]

Pay for it out my wages. The trick is to ride really cheap bikes then you don't need to do much saving.

However I have saved very hard over the past couple of years, but to enable me to ride my bikes rather than purchase them in the first place. Touring Spain last year cost me £1k or maybe slightly more. Touring Europe this year cost me between £3.5 and £4k. Save money by going out less and working more, and make up for the shortfall with short-term debt.
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[JonB]

Paid for my bike with cash that I was allowed access too thanks to my parents. They had been putting back money since I was born for me to spend on something special when I turned 17/18.

However I bought all my gear with money saved up. I bought my moped for £500 with money saved up since I was 13 doing a paper round.
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[DucatiEVO]

Last time I brought a new bike was my CBR1000RR in May'04. Paid all in cash (£5000 from sale of my R1 and the rest from my account which I had saved). Total paid was £8900 (had seat cover etc).
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[Method]

Well i paid in cash for all of my bikes.

But the most expensive bike ive owned was my NSR at £1250
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[element]

havent yet

Asked my my mum if she would loan me £1k so I could buy it (DT125RE).. Then asked her if she would drive an 80 miles round trip to check it out I still havent paid it off yet. I was due to start last month but I got laid off.

My bike before that (Speedfight 100) was paid for in cash (£700) and that was out of the money I got for burning my arm in work. Ive still got it to be honest just needs a little work so I can sell it for nearly as much as I paid instead of the £350 id prob get for it as it stands. Either way whatever I sell my speedfight for will go to pay off my DT

I already want a bigger bike and to take my test (again! wasted over £650 on my last attempt but that was a 5 day DAS).. I gotta get my driving licence before this time next year too else I'll have to retake my theory (which I took twice as I missed my first one).

Sometimes I wished Id saved up and bought my DT outright. I hate owing money but sometimes the deal is just too good to miss!
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[craigs23]

Cash, or cash difference on all of my bikes.

[0ddball]

I traded mine for 3 small philipino boys and a mongoose.

[KevTM]

if you can't afford to pay it in cash you can't afford it (afford to run it) top tip that is!

[GearboxGeezer]

I cant even afford to run a mini moto then

[gixxersixx]

paid cash for my rr4 blade £8700. Lots of overtime and saving took me just over a year. sold it bought my gsxr6k1 using the money from the blade and went racing for a year.
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[Davo]

Both my bikes have been paid for with cash. As will my next one when I decide what I'm after.

[TheShaggyDA]

I financed my XJ900F and the GT550, the AJS was a birthday present, all others have been cash.
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[trevoriv]

paid for both my bikes in rolls of £20's stuffed in an envelope

all in all handed over £5k for two bikes, want to buy another but i dont have the room

[stinkwheel]

I payed for mine with my switch card.

Although my latest one cost me £20 to cover the diesel for delivering it.

[steveh]

i just steal them




paid cash for all my bikes, most being 1600 for my thundercat.
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[Whosthedaddy]

I got mugged, took a quick trip to the cash machine and it was day light robbery I tell you, £600 all gone
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[phk6]

i payed 600 quid in cash the rest my dad put on his card for me which im paying off untill some tiem next year
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[Clanger]

I saved up for 8mths and then bought it with cash...had the money transferred to a building society near the seller and then offered him the money. I felt both nervous and rich wandering around Brighton with £2,800 in my hands!!!
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[21chappers]

the army kindly paid for mine

[Jebus]

i paid for my with money from me wages and bits of my college bursary. Worth the lack of cash for months
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[EllioTT_GiXXeR]

Pay cash for everything, i will never take a loan out, if you aint got the money then dont buy it, simple.
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[tony532]

paid cash for the thundercat 1350 notes

that i had saved up.


after giving up the cigarettes and cut down on the booze for a few months
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