Your income (household), versus your motorcyle(s) value

[sprale]

Probably about 5-10% at most for my situation. Old gear and used bikes most of the time. Cheap bikes when new.

[Sport-Touring]

[VIVID1]

I wouldn’t know exactly, but I know it’s too much. Probably around 35-45%

I bought 2 bikes last year, one used and one new.

All my bikes got new tires last year, that’s 4 new sets front and back (8 tires total)

Three bikes needed valves check services (took the bikes to the dealer)

And then there were the numerous oil changes and other maintenance that I did myself

Add a few bike trips

Insurance on 4 bikes  

New gear, mods and gadgets  

Someone help me out and buy one of my Ducshttps://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,6421.0.html, I need to cut down  

[black hills]

I wouldn’t know exactly, but I know it’s too much. Probably around 35-45%

I bought 2 bikes last year, one used and one new.

All my bikes got new tires last year, that’s 4 new sets front and back (8 tires total)

Three bikes needed valves check services (took the bikes to the dealer)

And then there were the numerous oil changes and other maintenance that I did myself

Add a few bike trips

Insurance on 4 bikes  

New gear, mods and gadgets  

Someone help me out and buy one of my Ducshttps://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,6421.0.html, I need to cut down  

Aahh, yes. But it is money well spent. If we had nothing to spend our money on what would be the point of working?

[1moreroad]

Aahh, yes. But it is money well spent. If we had nothing to spend our money on what would be the point of working?

More trips, fewer bikes.

Anna, of course, does not so much own 4 bikes as own 2 bikes and take extended test drives on 2 others.

[dm_gsxr]

Bought two bikes last year, one for Rita, one for me, trip expenses, gas, tires. Bought a garage for the bikes too (the house was attached though; does that count? )

In all, probably around 10% of last year's incoming not including the house.

We did about 98k last year but 70k the year before. The joys of being a consultant at IBM

Carl

[hawkeyejohn14]

Roughly 2% expenses of tires, gas, maintenance. I need to make more so I can buy a few goodies for my bike.

[Charlie7]

Depending on the year, I'd say my motorcycling related expenses run from about 7 - 10% of my income.

[Farked Up]

1%er here. Wee-strom has needed nothing but oil, filters, gas, chain lube & the most expensive item, a windshield bracket.

[sprintrock]

With one bread winner in the house I make a little over 27G maybe a little better when we both graduate, but we are both going to be public servants as I am already so doubt it.  I spent about 3% of our income on the scoot.  Hopefully a little more in the future

[Busy Little Whiner]

Income is what ever the Bank of Mary says it is but Mr.RC45 value is up 3 times what I paid and it
appreciates yearly... I received some tasty offers...

[meanstrk]

Single income here. Wish it were dual, but even so, I bought one bike last year, but it was paid for by selling another one of my bikes and flipping a car. Bought one so far this year, but again, it was paid for with the proceeds of the sale of another one of my bikes.

My biggest expenses is bike maintenance, track days, tires, and semi annual week long bike trips.

Damned if I even WANT to figure out how much I am REALLY spending on riding.

I am getting ready to retire from the Marines though, and have (fingers crossed here) a killer job lined up that will be a rather large increase over what I have been making. Yes, a new bike "may" be in the works for next year, but I would like to finish restoring my 1970 Camaro too.

[VIVID1]

Anna, of course, does not so much own 4 bikes as own 2 bikes and take extended test drives on 2 others.

There may be some truth to that   Well, I’m down to three bikes, the 900SS had to go, I didn’t even get a chance to ride it this year. The XT now a days is getting most of the action  

[Tar Snake]

My WAG is 5% of my income on a year with no bike purchases. Tires, gas, oil, riding gear, vacation expenses are my ST costs. What saves me a fortune (literally) is knowing how to work on bikes and doing almost all of my own maintenance. Thank God I took a lot of shop in H.S.

Depressing to see where I am on the income scale, hopefully it's skewed by dual incomes!

[kenish]

So far, the results have been pretty surprising.

Dang, what am I doing wrong  

Interesting poll !  I noticed right away that the "bins" don't span the same dollar range.  So, the distribution curve's shape would be different if each range was, for example, $25k.  I agree with others that we upstanding sport-touring folks will tend to be older than subscribers to sportbikesquidlies.com .  Internet users in general tend to have higher incomes, too.  This probably helps explain the higher than expected incomes.

Me personally, less than 5% including parts, farkles, gear, etc.    Haven't needed too much of that in the past 12 months.  But, I've been fighting bouts of New Bike Fever lately, so my mileage could vary soon!

[Studad]

I always get a kick out of seeing people who make a lot of money talk about never meeting poor people. I live in a small town and never meet rich people! Stats for my town: median household income - 18k. median home price - 50k. bikes most often encountered - used shadows and ninja 250-500.

as we say in the Ozarks: ain't that some shit.

[black hills]

I always get a kick out of seeing people who make a lot of money talk about never meeting poor people. I live in a small town and never meet rich people! Stats for my town: median household income - 18k. median home price - 50k. bikes most often encountered - used shadows and ninja 250-500.

as we say in the Ozarks: ain't that some shit.

I think most people are slightly less than honest when it comes to how much they make. That was the point of my post. I work for a rural electric co-op (lineman, then staking tech, now operations manager), it's a pretty decent job, but whenever the subject of income comes up even the dishwasher at the resturant makes more than I do????

[eye.surgeon]

The purchase of my (used) 2004 K1200GT represented about 2.5% of my income that year if my calculations are correct, before taxes. If I went with aftertax income and factored in costs like insurance and basic maintenance I'm still looking at about a 5% investment amortized over just that year. Paid cash so there is only maintenance and insurance after the first year. Not a bad investment considering I get 50% of my fun out of 5% of my take-home  .

Needless to say I could have spent more on a bike, but I got what I wanted. I balked at the price of a new one especially since I didn't like it any more than the used.

[lanispet]

Hm, for 06, probably less than 2%... bought a rear tire and a used 636 shock for the SV, bought an '80 CX500 for $700... can't really call gas an investment.
i've bought three bikes so far in '07 (none of them over $1000), so the story could change, depending on how much i make parting one or more of them out  
Dual Income, No Kids, Lotsa Toys... life's been good to me, so far...