I Spent £1,254 on My Old Bike. Only £443 Was Necessary.
Timeforbikes
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I spent £1,254.35 on my old bike this year. Only £443.80 of that was actually necessary — insurance, tax, MOT, servicing, and two genuine repairs.
The rest? I chose to spend it. This video breaks down every pound, receipted, split into three honest categories: what the bike legally and mechanically demanded, what I spent on improvement projects because I wanted to, and what I bought now because the parts are already getting hard to find.
No estimates — these are the actual bills.
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Related: the full suspension upgrade series [link the three videos mentioned in the script]
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Why not implement a digital rpm counter app on your android device?
Certainly another brick in the endless construction!!!
I Spent £1,254 on My Old Bike. Only £443 Was Necessary.
Timeforbikes
4,253 views
I spent £1,254.35 on my old bike this year. Only £443.80 of that was actually necessary — insurance, tax, MOT, servicing, and two genuine repairs.
The rest? I chose to spend it. This video breaks down every pound, receipted, split into three honest categories: what the bike legally and mechanically demanded, what I spent on improvement projects because I wanted to, and what I bought now because the parts are already getting hard to find.
No estimates — these are the actual bills.
[chapters}
0:00 - Start
Related: the full suspension upgrade series [link the three videos mentioned in the script]
If you find videos like this useful, subscribing helps the channel keep making them.
#MotorcycleMaintenance #OldMotorcycles #BMWF650 #MotorcycleCosts
So here's the actual question the video's built around. If this was your bike, would you have stopped at £443 and ridden it as-is? Or spent the extra £811, the way I did?
I’m genuinely curious where people land on this. Drop your views in the comments below. The conversations we have are so interesting.
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