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What's your rothar worth as a percentage of your car or primary motor vehicle?

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    #32
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    My car is worth about 12 euro per kg.
    My best bike is worth about 500 euro per kg.


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    #33
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,577 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    or another way of looking at it; new, my bike would be a third or a quarter of the price of a bike used at the very top level of the sport.
    new, my car would be worth less than one percent of similar.


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    #34
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,353 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    I really hope this is not a pre-cursor for a discussion about introducing a wheels tax

    Cars = 15
    Trailers = 9
    Tractors = 8
    Horse van = 5
    Grass cutter = 4
    Bikes = quite a few more than the aggregate of the above....


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    #35
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 29,050 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    One commuter bike, about 10% of the value of the commuter car.


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    #36
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,997 ✭✭✭cletus


    My main bike is probably worth 25% of the value of my car.

    If I add the my other two bikes to it, I probably come up to about 50%.

    This has more to do with the value of my car, than the value of my bikes :D


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    #37
    volchitsa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,520 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    Beasty wrote: »
    I really hope this is not a pre-cursor for a discussion about introducing a wheels tax

    Cars = 15
    Trailers = 9
    Tractors = 8
    Horse van = 5
    Grass cutter = 4
    Bikes = quite a few more than the aggregate of the above....

    You have 15 cars?? Why?


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    #38
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,997 ✭✭✭cletus


    volchitsa wrote: »
    You have 15 cars?? Why?

    I thought that was a wheel count, not a vehicle count. Having said that, a mate of mine wouldn't be far off the number of vehicles Beasty has listed, he's a collector of classic cars


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    #39
    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    I'm surprised this hasn't been referenced yet.
    THE RULES wrote:
    RULE #25: The bikes on top of your car should be worth more than the car. Or at least be relatively more expensive. Basically, if you’re putting your Huffy on your Rolls, you’re in trouble, mister. Remember what Sean said*.

    *
    What Sean said wrote:
    Family does not come first. The bike does. Sean Kelly, being interviewed after the ’84 Amstel Gold Race, spots his wife leaning against his Citroën AX. He interrupts the interview to tell her to get off the paintwork, to which she shrugs, “In your life the car comes first, then the bike, then me.” Instinctively, he snaps back, “You got the order wrong. The bike comes first.”
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    #40
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,997 ✭✭✭cletus


    crosstownk wrote: »
    I'm surprised this hasn't been referenced yet.



    *

    Enfilade referenced it 6 posts in...


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    #41
    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    cletus wrote: »
    edwinireland referenced it 6 posts in...

    :o I see it now. My speed reading abilities continue to diminish.
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    #42
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,997 ✭✭✭cletus


    crosstownk wrote: »
    :o I see it now. My speed reading abilities continue to diminish.

    As are mine, it would seem...


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    #43
    Thud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭Thud


    Beasty wrote: »
    I really hope this is not a pre-cursor for a discussion about introducing a wheels tax

    Cars = 15
    Trailers = 9
    Tractors = 8
    Horse van = 5
    Grass cutter = 4
    Bikes = quite a few more than the aggregate of the above....

    Not feeling so bad about six bikes now


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    #44
    spiggotpaddy
    Registered Users Posts: 873 ✭✭✭spiggotpaddy


    When I'm driving my fifteen year old banger and I see a road bike or two I say to my passengers 'look at that idiot, can't he afford a nice motorcar ' which is usually followed by a no comment tumbleweed kinda moment.


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    #45
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,577 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    you could easily argue that by weight, cars are much better value than bikes.
    the current model of my car (new) is about €18 per kilo.
    my bike would probably be about €300 or €400 per kilo.


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    #46
    spiggotpaddy
    Registered Users Posts: 873 ✭✭✭spiggotpaddy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    you could easily argue that by weight, cars are much better value than bikes.
    the current model of my car (new) is about €18 per kilo.
    my bike would probably be about €300 or €400 per kilo.

    Don't be giving them ideas, with the sparsity of bikes and parts your dealer will start charging by the gram.


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    #47
    pat k
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭pat k


    my bike is an orbea purchased for e1,700 and the car is an octavia 161 purchased for e16,000 would like a nicer bike before a nicer car ( you know what im sayin !!) :D:D


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    #48
    Breezer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Bike 1: €4750
    Bike 2: €1000
    Various bike bits: god only knows

    Car: €437 on Go Car in the last 3 years.


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    #49
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Are people posting current value of bike and that of car? Otherwise it's meaningless.


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    #50
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,128 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Bike 1: €1600
    Bike2: €300

    I have no idea, first one is €1800 new and less than 3 months old.
    Second one is 6 years old and has a lot of the components replaced, don't know what it would sell for, guessing €300.

    Car: €9,000

    Rough guess based on carzone ads, though mine has a lot less miles than the ones on carzone.

    So bikes are worth 21% of car.


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    #51
    Grassey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    fatbhoy wrote:
    Are people posting current value of bike and that of car? Otherwise it's meaningless.


    It does seem to be purchase price of bike vs current car price...

    Either that or bikes hold their value far better than cars!


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    #52
    Breezer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Grassey wrote: »
    It does seem to be purchase price of bike vs current car price...

    Either that or bikes hold their value far better than cars!

    I know of people who have sold bikes for more than they bought them for lately, given the shortage. But I also recently read an article about second hand cars increasing in value, due to the lack of British imports.


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    #53
    whomadewho
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭whomadewho


    Giant TCR Advanced pro bike paid 3000€ last year

    Toyota Auris Hybrid 2012, paid 8700€ last March.

    So a bit over 33%



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    #54
    byrnem31
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭byrnem31


    My car is worth about €1500. 2006 civic that i hardly use.

    My bike is worth about €2k as is. So my bike is worth more than my car which makes sense cause i use it more. Don't like cars at all and would not have one only for the kids.



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    #55
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    I've added a 2nd hand full suspension mtb to the list now as well 🙂

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #56
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,768 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I only rent cars and vans, so I suppose the "worth" of my primary motor vehicle is zero, in that I can't sell it. The net worth of my bikes at purchase time would have been: 2000 + 1000 + 900 = 3.9k


    So 3.9/0 * 100 = INF



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    #57
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,577 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    we've gone all PC now, it's not 'infinity', it's 'undefined'.



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    #58
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,768 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117997034#Comment_117997034

    My calculator says "INF". But yours makes more sense.



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    #59
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    That must be a fancy calculator. The only word ever displayed on mine was 5318008



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    #60
    billyhead
    Registered Users Posts: 9,868 ✭✭✭billyhead


    Don't own a car myself. Serious waste of money. Bikes are worth 400 for the hybrid and paid 2200 for the road bike 7 years ago but worth about half that now.



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    #61
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,577 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    a seven year old road bike would lose a lot more than half its value i suspect. though god knows in the current market.



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