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My honda NC750 at 10 years old cost me $4200. I had to replace wheels once (rubber, $600) and the transmission failed on me ($850) all within my first 8k kilome
by herbst 14d ago
My honda NC750 at 10 years old cost me $4200. I had to replace wheels once (rubber, $600) and the transmission failed on me ($850) all within my first 8k kilometers.
My last car was a Subaru forester that did cost a little less, was older tho, on that I spent about $800 in total per year on to keep it alive, easily doing 20k kilometres a year.
Motorcycles arent so much cheaper necessarily.
- prmoustache 14d agoYou got scammed if by rubber you mean that 2 motorcycles tires cost $600.
- herbst 14d agoWheel cost alone was about $300 for both, rest is work time and new breaks.
- prmoustache 14d agoIs it wheel or wheel+tire (you mention "rubber").
- herbst 13d agoThe tire alone is about $300, about $200 in work and $100 or so was a break replacement.
- vel0city 14d agoIf you're not changing your own tires a lot of cycle shops charge a good bit for labor to mount tires. Seems like most shops around me want $200+ in labor to do tires. That got me to just start doing it at home. Although it's a pain to do it right with spoons and not mar up the rims (or your fingers). I'm not bothering to invest in the space for a whole tire changing station in my garage. I definitely don't blame people for just eating the cost and doing it at a shop. It's different with car tires because there's tons of places that do car tires. Far more competition with big national chains all over the place. Not always true with bikes. The labor costs they charge for dang near any little bit of work really drove me to do almost everything I can at home.
- prmoustache 14d agoEvery motorbike shop has the tooling amortized already. It takes less than 5 minutes to swap a tire and motorcycle tire tend to be cheaper than highend bicycle tires due to economy of scale. The Honda NC750 isn't a superbike, there is no reason to spend that amount of money on 2 tires.
- vel0city 14d agoOk, you go tell that to the two shops within a reasonable distance to me. Last time I tried telling them that they didn't budge. I'm well aware they're charging a lot for it. They do it because that's what people around here pay for it. And given they've got a few days of work queued up before they even got around to fixing up the fork tubes I removed for them, it seems like they're not hurting for business charging what they charge.
- thelastgallon 14d agoNC750 is 750cc. Very big super costly bikes are an American thing. Third world works perfectly fine with a 50CC - 150CC for under $1000, to a super premium bike 300CC if you want to show off. You always have the option to spend more. America has this macho bike person stereotype to live upto where you must buy a bike close to 1000CC.
- herbst 14d agoI live in Switzerland tho. But might be true, it's "big" because of mountains and because I actually use it to commute and travel on the autobahn which is no fun if you are slower than anyone else. Most people here have 500-800cc