Worked it out a while back, without running costs and extras I've spent £42240 on bikes in 20 years!!!! Made £33200 selling them and I had £6250 worth of Trumpet here and a £200 CBR so it's cost me £2940 for 20 years of riding. That's £129.50 a year. Haha I’ve since bought and sold the Daytona 675 (£5k in part ex against the MT10), Daytona 955i (made about £100 on it after doing it up), 98 R1 (made about £300 after getting it back up to spec and sticking about 1500 miles in it) and bought a brand new MT10 £11168 and an old Bandit 600 for £500 (should clear about £300 on it) but can’t be arsed to work it out. Suffice to say I don’t lose too much on my bikes!
Erm, sounds too good to be true, Mr Toy. Have you factored in insurance, tax, maintenance, etc? If you do a COMPLETE amortisation of all costs you might be surprised. I did mention earlier in this thread that I would do that. The results are astounding as shown below:
As I inferred above matey, forgetting running costs & extras, purely cost of purchase minus price achieved at sale time. Anything else to me is an acceptable cost to use the machinery and extras are bits I WANT to fit and when sold usually recoup a fair percentage of the purchase price especially when I’ve purchased used parts like Ohlins or K-Tech shocks or carbon fibre extras etc. from forum members etc, and now you know my reasoning for joining other forums
Yeah, fair enough. I guess we share the same point that what money we don't 'make' on a bike is offset by the enjoyment and pleasure received. I daren't put up my 'Wife Ownership Costs' spreadsheet. A lot of minuses along the bottom line!
