Cost of running a sports bike.

BennyC

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Can anybody give me a rough idea of the price of servicing & general maintenance for a 600cc sports bike? Most likely a ZX6R but I assume that CBR600's & YZF-R6's aren't too dis-similar.

Rear tyres seem to come in around - £100ish
Front tyre around -£80-90.
Tax - £75
Fuel- will vary.

I guess I'm more after the cost of servicing and consumables like pads & discs, change of fluids, chains, and a good checking over. I read on a lot of for sale adds that sprockets & chain have been replaced/upgraded, is this expensive?

I paid about £150 for an annual service on my 182 from a specialist which included filters, oil change, and a good check over the brakes, exhaust and shocks along with CV boots etc.

Can I expect the same in the motorcycle world? or is servicing of a motorbike a different ball game all together?

Thanks

BennyC
 
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Chain + Sprockets - between £100 to £150
Pads run about £15.00 a pair.
Standard brake discs are about £150 each, wavy discs probably twice that.

You can save a lot of money by doing the basics yourself. All it takes is a Haynes manual a bit of common sense.
 
I've done a bit of self servicing on the car so have a fair bit of tooling, sockets, spanners, torque wrench so am sure I could do brakes and the odd fluid change. But I'd like to keep the book stamped too.

Can't believe how expensive discs are! :eek:
 
sloth said:
Bear in mind that you won't be changing chains, sprockets and discs that often. :)
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V. True. It's going to be a weekend & summer toy really. So will see less than 3000 mile a year. I put £50 a month aside for the car so that I have around £600 a year for servicing, tyres and anything that may need replacing. Thinking of doing the same for the bike which should be plenty and then for big expenses such as discs or other costly items I won't be left quite so out of pocket.
 
[Olly];19180525 said:
Chain + Sprockets - between £100 to £150
Pads run about £15.00 a pair.
Standard brake discs are about £150 each, wavy discs probably twice that.

You can save a lot of money by doing the basics yourself. All it takes is a Haynes manual a bit of common sense.
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£15 a pair pads? just got some EBC Sintered for £25 a pair.

My CBR600RR5, 12k mile service is £225, 16k is £325, tyres £250 a pair, chain and sprockets £100-£150
 
My typical running costs for the past few years doing around 3-5k miles a year are:
- Service £90
- Tyres - £250
- Tax - £74
- Cleaning/Chain Lube - £20

Done.

Although that's with a fairly new bike so no real servicing costs. It starts getting expensive when you start adding stuff, carbon bits, pretty bits, faster bits, noisy bits... :)
 
Oh yea, tax is £53 a year, servicing is only expensive if you want the stamp in the book, otherwise oil/filter is dirt cheap
 
sloth said:
Bear in mind that you won't be changing chains, sprockets and discs that often. :)
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Unless you buy the cheapy chains...

I had one that barely lasted 3,000 miles... was on a very tight budget though. Will never buy one of those again!!!

It's better to pay a bit more when you're buying chains... they last a lot longer and actually work out cheaper over time :)
 
famas said:
that weird, just taxed my 600 for a year and it was £53?
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same here, dont know where you have this £70 odd from ?

oh yeah see it now, over 600cc £74 typicall stupid tax again, why on earth is it £21 more for something over 600cc?

makes no sense, mind you, most of the stuff our goverment does, doesnt make any sense.
 
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Bike tax brackets *are* stupid, means an SV650 costs the same to tax as a litre sports bike, and 40% more than a significantly quicker and thirstier 600cc sports bike. A car achieving similar fuel consumption would likely have free road tax, but takes 3 times the road space and cause more damage to the road surface.

Granted it's not a lot of money on an annual basis, but it still irks.
 
Dogbreath said:
Bike tax brackets *are* stupid, means an SV650 costs the same to tax as a litre sports bike, and 40% more than a significantly quicker and thirstier 600cc sports bike. A car achieving similar fuel consumption would likely have free road tax, but takes 3 times the road space and cause more damage to the road surface.

Granted it's not a lot of money on an annual basis, but it still irks.
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It's crazy that cars are done on CO2 emissions but bikes are done on engine capacity.
 
If it's a toy it won't be much at all in the scheme of things, my Fazer 1000 that I did a couple of years commuting on really only cost me in rear tyres (they'd go square, straight commute pretty much) and normal servicing, and that racked up quite a few miles a week.

Even my chains used to last for ages because I looked after them reasonably well. By looked after them I mean squirted stuff at them every few days.
 
i just taxed my gsxr 600 and it was £50 ?
service it yourself its a very easy and quick job, look after your chain and it'll last along with sprockets.
No haynes manual needed for basics really, what ever bike you get, join a relevant forum for top tips and help :)
 
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