Your comments are great Gaoleee, but noobies don't understand that they are making irrational rationalizations when they say they are going to save money by purchasing a bike. You and I both know that every bike we have ever or will ever purchase is nothing but a money pit, but that is because we've both owned multiple bikes and seen it proved over and over again.
There is another thread where this same conversation is going on. I came up with a bike saving somewhere around $180 per 1,000 miles driven instead of driving a truck that gets 13 mpg. This calculation doesn't take in to account the obligatory joy riding necessary for having a bike either.
What I came up with basically says that for a 500cc bike, $120 a month payment, $60 a month in insurance and the tires, oil changes, bare minimum gear and etc a rider has to replace about 25,000-30,000 miles of car/truck miles with bike miles just to break even on the purchase with my payment and insurance estimates.
Only the most dedicated riders put even close to that on any bike, let alone do it in just one year. Just as an example, I've been riding street bikes for 6 seasons and I've had my seasons that I rode a lot and season that I didn't ride much at all and I've only logged about 35,000 miles of seat time in those years.
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