Running Cost

[deaninkl]

My May 07, 1200 has just clocked 60,000km and ,touch wood, has been reliable the whole time apart from not starting once due to requiring a new battery.

When I add up everything I've spent on it so for for; servicing, road tax, insurance, acceories (screen, throttle lock, panniers) tires (two rear and two front) and petrol (averages 18 per liter) I have spent 74p a km.

I've not included depreciation....as due to exchange rates its now worth more than I paid for it....

Anyone else out there tracked the running costs of their bike?

 

[CuzGS]

I'd love to claim credit for being so thorough but I just get on and blast around

 

[ebbo]

My May 07, 1200 has just clocked 60,000km and ,touch wood, has been reliable the whole time apart from not starting once due to requiring a new battery.

When I add up everything I've spent on it so for for; servicing, road tax, insurance, acceories (screen, throttle lock, panniers) tires (two rear and two front) and petrol (averages 18 per liter) I have spent 74p a km.

I've not included depreciation....as due to exchange rates its now worth more than I paid for it....

Anyone else out there tracked the running costs of their bike?

I'd rather not know to much detail

 

[Bones]

That's 118p per mile which over that sort of mileage (60,000km in four years) sound rather high to me.

 

[Spout]

That'a over £10,000 per year.

How many final drives have you replaced...

 

[Tuono1961]

Seems to me that whilst the OP may be very thorough with his record keeping he's not quite so good with his maths

 

[Wapping]

Seems to me that whilst the OP may be very thorough with his record keeping he's not quite so good with his maths

It's the heat and the God awful humidity, it saps a white man's brains. This time next week he'll be Colonel Kurtz.

 

[rml]

that sounds expensive... okay I sadly did the same calculation
but on a F800GS as:

I recently flip my F800 GS for a 1200GS, I had the F800 GS for a year
and did almost exactly 20,000 miles & I had every receipt, service,petrol,tyres,
panniers (alu) insurance etc. (I'm Scottish )
And on a wet evening before I traded in the F800 I did the per mile
calculation including deprecation (price bought v. price traded in),
and it came out at 35p per mile. Still an eye opener but not as scary
as 118p per mile.

The only big difference cost wise so far on the 1200 is putting in the "good
stuff" in as far as petrol is concerned & averaging 46 mpg v 52, & a
drop of oil.
The insurance cost is similar within £10 a year (I'm old), so I'm surprised
at the difference, lots of add ons/ higher service/insurance costs?

Others experience may be different....
Cheers
rml

 

[gncpr67]

If your that worried.. Sell the bike get yourself a day saver Malaysian styli e...
I'm sure they like their oysters over there??

 

[snerkler]

that sounds expensive... okay I sadly did the same calculation
but on a F800GS as:

I recently flip my F800 GS for a 1200GS, I had the F800 GS for a year
and did almost exactly 20,000 miles & I had every receipt, service,petrol,tyres,
panniers (alu) insurance etc. (I'm Scottish )
And on a wet evening before I traded in the F800 I did the per mile
calculation including deprecation (price bought v. price traded in),
and it came out at 35p per mile. Still an eye opener but not as scary
as 118p per mile.

The only big difference cost wise so far on the 1200 is putting in the "good
stuff" in as far as petrol is concerned & averaging 46 mpg v 52, & a
drop of oil.
The insurance cost is similar within £10 a year (I'm old), so I'm surprised
at the difference, lots of add ons/ higher service/insurance costs?

Others experience may be different....
Cheers
rml

35p/mile? Much cheaper than public transport

 

[deaninkl]

Ooops....as an engineer I should have done better....an x instead of / does feck up the math somewhat.... so its 60,000km and total cost of Ringgit 16,764 so thats 0.28 Ringgit/kl or about 6p per km at todays exchange rates....sorry for that.

 

[deaninkl]

When I bought the bike the exchange rate was 7 ringgit = 1 pound, now its 4.8 = 1 pound, so the value of my bike even after depreciation has gone up in pound terms. (not taken intio account for running cost calc.)

The big difference with the UK is petrol prices at only 40p per litre, tires are 100 pound a shot, road tax is 70 pound a year, Insurance about the same as UK.

 

[Jonnie Boy]

29p/mile on me 1200GS at 73000 miles traded in.......

23p/mile on me 800GS currently at 12000

I have no idea why I do this!?

 

[Rasher]

I have no idea why I do this!?

Bloody hell, nor do I, GS is too new to work out, but last bike over 16k was 22p for servicing, fuel, tyres etc, but add in depreciation and costs of upgrades etc. and it works out at 47p a mile! (after flogging off the accessories as well)

GS is looking a shade better on fuel and a bit worse on servicing costs, and as I have spent about £2k on extra's already depreciation is gonna be every bit as bad as the last bike.

 

[snerkler]

29p/mile on me 1200GS at 73000 miles traded in.......

23p/mile on me 800GS currently at 12000

I have no idea why I do this!?

Too much time on your hands