MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 4:33 pm
If it's going to sit gathering dust use the money elsewhere, drugs, booze n hookers etc.
Thing is, for him as with a fair few on here, £200 a month doesn't exist, change anything or affect anything. So it's really just a case of want. Or not want.
No I get that, drop in the ocean and all that jazz.
But I'm weird, I don't see the point in spending 1 penny total let alone a month on anything that's not going to get used regardless of your bank balance.
MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 4:33 pm
If it's going to sit gathering dust use the money elsewhere, drugs, booze n hookers etc.
Thing is, for him as with a fair few on here, £200 a month doesn't exist, change anything or affect anything. So it's really just a case of want. Or not want.
No I get that, drop in the ocean and all that jazz.
But I'm weird, I don't see the point in spending 1 penny total let alone a month on anything that's not going to get used regardless of your bank balance.
MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 4:33 pm
If it's going to sit gathering dust use the money elsewhere, drugs, booze n hookers etc.
Thing is, for him as with a fair few on here, £200 a month doesn't exist, change anything or affect anything. So it's really just a case of want. Or not want.
No I get that, drop in the ocean and all that jazz.
But I'm weird, I don't see the point in spending 1 penny total let alone a month on anything that's not going to get used regardless of your bank balance.
I've put that through the Gobbledy Gook translator. Nothing ???
MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 4:33 pm
If it's going to sit gathering dust use the money elsewhere, drugs, booze n hookers etc.
Thing is, for him as with a fair few on here, £200 a month doesn't exist, change anything or affect anything. So it's really just a case of want. Or not want.
I expect they're all pressing the donate button every month then.
You don't get to consider £200 a month insignificant by going around pressing donate buttons!
£200 / per month ? is that Honda UK deal and is there deposit required ? there is a certain attraction to it - if there's no deposit but remember your actually hiring it - @ £2400 per year or £7200 over 3 years.
But the Bike reviews come out very good. Just watch the excess mileage charge and what they consider acceptable condition when potentially handing it back. Mate got a KTM 1250 Adventure thing on such a scheme and had been belting it about the farm probably rounding up the sheep - and he doesn't do cleaning..
Alan PBTD wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 6:42 pm
£200 / per month ? is that Honda UK deal and is there deposit required ? there is a certain attraction to it - if there's no deposit but remember your actually hiring it - @ £2400 per year or £7200 over 3 years.
But the Bike reviews come out very good. Just watch the excess mileage charge and what they consider acceptable condition when potentially handing it back. Mate got a KTM 1250 Adventure thing on such a scheme and had been belting it about the farm probably rounding up the sheep - and he doesn't do cleaning..
Just had a dab around UK hire and the prices are more like £275/weekend. £200/month looks very cheap.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
wheelnut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:45 pm
Is it a lease or a pcp, £200pm for a pcp sounds about right.
I’ve never seen a lease option on any bike as yet.
We'll have to wait until he wakes up but from what he said earlier he wants a month by month deal and 12 months is too long I think. He said lease, maybe they do things differently in Dubai - surprised anything is cheap though.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
I can easily afford £200 a month on a bike because I won't layout £200 a month on a bike, buy things, don't lease them, leasing is just giving money to a finance company.
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:01 pm
I can easily afford £200 a month on a bike because I won't layout £200 a month on a bike, buy things, don't lease them, leasing is just giving money to a finance company.
Maybe. Although John Paul Getty did say that if it appreciates, buy it. If it depreciates then lease it.
Potter wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:13 am
But all week I've been waking up and thinking "If I had a brand new bike of my choice on the drive today then would I go for a ride?" And the answer every morning so far is no. So there doesn't seem to be much point in paying monthly to stare at a motorbike that will cost me money, even though it is pretty.
I'm guessing that doesn't matter which bike it is ? Would the Ducati Desert thing make you ? If not, then you're in a position where i wouldn't buy ANY bike at all currently in your position.
I've been there, been you in that context. Currently as you'll have seen i'm WAY more into MTB than motorbikes, they're my wheels of choice. But i do still have the urge to ride a motorbike, not always, but sometimes.... Hence me still having one. Even if it's only once or twice a month, i don't mind the outlay sitting there.
I'm the same, I rarely waste money and I usually buy carefully with a view to it being an appreciating asset, but the value of the RE was written off as soon as I bought it, I always knew I'd lose money on it. The way I viewed it is it cost me a bit to own it for the year and I think I got that much value back from it, my lad used it to learn on and that on it's own was worth it. If I amortise that cost/value in good memories over a lifetime then it's peanuts.
Out of interest, what did the RE cost per month over your ownership? Anything close to 200?
I nearly bought an African Twin recently. I really liked the headlights (sidelights?) on the 1100 model. It'd have to be the Adventure Sports version though, it makes the standard one look dead wee and nesh.
I ended up getting the KTBoom so it's all moot.
£200 a month is £2400 over a year, probably about the same as buying and then selling a new one I'd guess.
To a kid looking up to me, life ain't nothing but bitches and money.
