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Originally Posted by Bubba Zanetti
The more gas goes up, then maybe people will take a closer look at motorcycles for transportation!
I've been talking to my lovely wife about picking up a second bike and I have been focusing on the 250cc sportbikes. My friend has a Ninja 250 that gets 60 miles to the gallon! My old Kawasaki 440 used to get about the same.
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I know I am in the minority, but I actually get better mileage in my car, than I do on the bike
But I would guess, quite a few people, if they did an actuall comparo, would find that mile for mile, their car is cheaper -- even if the bike gets significantly better mileage.
most of us aren't going to sell the car/truck/SUV, so adding a bike as a higher mileage vehicle, all of it is an extra expense
so any loan interest, depreciation, insurance, tires, oil changes, services, helmet, gloves, jackets, boots, farkles, etc. have to be accounted for.
a set of tires for the car sets me back $500 and lasts 50,000 - 60,000 miles, for the bike it is more like $250 - $300 and I get about 6,000 and 10,000 miles out of them, so a lot of money in tires to make up for the gas savings, if you have any, that doesn't include bike specific oil if you use it, bike specific filters if you use them, etc.