The way in which people approach cars and car "ownership" is changing. People are becoming more used to leasing or at least never owning cars and paying a monthly fee as driven by the god awful value (imho) pcps. This will persist into electric vehicles and or electric vehicle battery packs.
I think I mentioned £300 annually (£100 for 6 month play £200 for 12 months). for me, it also includes new tyres, the cost of a few inner tubes during flats, brake pads.
But anyway, give me an example of servicing cost for an all weather bike ridden for a year, at a bike shop from your perspective.
By car, let's call it £150 over two years, so that's £75 annually. No new tyres required.
service the bike every 6 months for about £100 plus a major service of £200 annually.
I'd assume that web page is not current because it shows a proTX logo, which became SagePay about a decade ago IIRC, which itself became opayo more recently.[...] He’s been going about 30 years and is well known. A full service there costs £45 or, if you’ve hammered the bike through a tough winter, he will do a complete strip down to component parts, regrease, replace bearings, AND do everything else covered by the full service for £85.
A basic annual service (oil & filter change only) for my car costs £184.
thats good going i get through a couple of pairs of tyres a year, crappy roas i ride eat themI have ridden my bike all year all weather for years. Oil the chain regularly, the odd cable for a couple of quid and a tyre every two years or so. Not even a penny a day.
My MTB tyres last me around 1500 miles on the road so if I stay on the current trajectory of 6,000 miles per year, that's four sets of tyres.thats good going i get through a couple of pairs of tyres a year, crappy roas i ride eat them
thats good going i get through a couple of pairs of tyres a year, crappy roas i ride eat them
I get 1500 miles per tyre on my current commute but that is a predominantly country lane route with the usual gravel surfaces and potholes etc.You must be running the wrong sort of tyres then because bomb proof touring/commuting tyres should be good for at least 5,000 miles, and they just laugh at the small stone and glass fragments that will cut up flimsy soft compound road tyres.
I think anyone on here who claims that their car or bike only costs them pennies to run every year, needs to take a serious look at their accounting methods.
I get 1500 miles per tyre on my current commute but that is a predominantly country lane route with the usual gravel surfaces and potholes etc.
I replace my tyres when the "nobbles" in the centre are level with the surface of the tyre wall (by this stage, I'm also losing grip on corners).
A couple of sets of tyres per year is not out of the way for someone commuting bewteen fifty and one hundred miles per week.
commuter is my carrera still on the stock tyres atm running 28s these daysI can honestly say I have not bought a single bike tyre or inner tube in the last 12 months. I did recently acquire a rideable Raleigh spares bike for £20, which had 2 almost new Schwalbes and inner tubes, so about £40 of tyres for £20 with a free bike thrown in. I also found two serviceable 700c hybrid back wheels in the scrap skip at work, one with a nearly new Schwalbe and the other with a Kenda, both good tubes. Those wheels & tyres are now in my spares pile for when I need one.
I've replaced two 26" knobbly MTB tyres in the last couple of months as they were worn low and puncturing. The "new" tyres both came off skip salvages, so free. Literally zero cycling running cost spend this year, although I did buy a £25 workstand from Lidl several months ago.
You are riding rural roads and need traction, and it's true knobbly MTB tyres wear out faster. I would have thought you would get more than 1,500 miles if you ran Schwalbe Land Cruisers though. I have a pair that are proving very hard wearing, although I got them used for £4 and I don't know the exact mileage on them.
@cyberknight is riding a Boardman road bike on road tyres. so he has the option of running long-life touring types that will not get shredded on crappy roads. I ride on really crap roads with all sorts of debris and potholes and my road tyres don't get destroyed.
I've spent a small fortune on my bike over the last nine months but that would not be reflective of a typical year.Took me 3.5 years for the money saved by not paying for a yearly rail pass, to draw even with my cycling outlay. Since I still own the bikes and the majority of kit/tools I'm positively in the black.