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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 39203" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>Re: Motorcycles</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Motorcycle fuel economy:</p><p><a href="http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/MotorcycleFuelEconomyGuide/Harley-Davidson.htm" target="_blank">http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/MotorcycleFuelEconomyGuide/Harley-Davidson.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Many bikes are 40 - 70 MPG. A lot of the Harleys are at the low end of that scale. For the sake of argument, we'll choose 55MPG for our representative bike. Let's say you drive a medium gas guzzler that gets 17MPG, and assume gas is $4.00/gal.</p><p></p><p>Not counting insurance, maintenance, and interest costs, it takes almost 50,000 miles at that MPG delta to pay for a $7500 bike. </p><p></p><p>Everyone's situation is different, but with our northern climate and the shorter ride season, the times when you need to carry something which forces you to drive a car or truck, rainy days, spring days before the road sand has been swept off the road, etc., and most people struggle to put 10K miles/yr on a bike.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure there are cases where someone was given a nice bike for free and their daily driver is a tour bus that gets 3MPG and they ride 75 zillion miles a year, but for the average biker, I find it pretty hard to believe they get anywhere close to breaking even.</p><p></p><p>If they forgo a car - then it's a different story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 39203, member: 162"] Re: Motorcycles Motorcycle fuel economy: [url]http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/MotorcycleFuelEconomyGuide/Harley-Davidson.htm[/url] Many bikes are 40 - 70 MPG. A lot of the Harleys are at the low end of that scale. For the sake of argument, we'll choose 55MPG for our representative bike. Let's say you drive a medium gas guzzler that gets 17MPG, and assume gas is $4.00/gal. Not counting insurance, maintenance, and interest costs, it takes almost 50,000 miles at that MPG delta to pay for a $7500 bike. Everyone's situation is different, but with our northern climate and the shorter ride season, the times when you need to carry something which forces you to drive a car or truck, rainy days, spring days before the road sand has been swept off the road, etc., and most people struggle to put 10K miles/yr on a bike. I'm sure there are cases where someone was given a nice bike for free and their daily driver is a tour bus that gets 3MPG and they ride 75 zillion miles a year, but for the average biker, I find it pretty hard to believe they get anywhere close to breaking even. If they forgo a car - then it's a different story. [/QUOTE]
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