How much $ in your build?

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I love reading through threads of others builds or just upgrades on stock bikes. Just curious what you would guess you have into your bike?

I would guess including purchasing the bike I've got $2500 into my bike. That's not chump change to me and my bike is nowhere near what some of you are doing.

Give me your worst.
 
Oh boy, that's a good but dangerous question to ask! :laugh: Well first, I assume we're not counting the cost of our own time/labor. Are we counting "development costs", ie., having to buy something twice to find out which one fits, having to buy a special tool, or heading off into dead-ends before "finding our way"? How about the costs of maintaining a workspace/shop?

Not counting my own time or the value of bartered workspace and sub-trades, but including all the dead-ends, development, and initial purchase price, I have close to $8k in my bike. If I set out to do an identical build from scratch, knowing what I know now, I could probably do it for under $6k. That's a pretty scary number for me to admit to, but then again, neither have I stopped spending money on the bike(s), and nor do I have any regrets about it.
 
Love your answer there osteoderm. If we are counting total investment without anything we have made back by selling of spare parts or parts not currently on the bike I am probably in mine for about $5k. Now the total I have in parts on the bike including the purchase of the basket case to begin with I am at about $3.5k, hell I bet I have about $200 just in jets for the CVK carbs laying around. Neither of those numbers include what it would have cost to have a shop do any of it since I did everything myself short of building the hardtail. I wouldn't even want to think about what a shop would have cost to build my contraption. One thing I can tell you is that it probably saved me about the same amount or more in therapy bills since it gives me a chance to step away, clear my head and approach thing a little more level headed once I have had a chance to unwind a little bit.
 
what do I have in it or what my wife thinks I have in it,lol hahaha the wifes bike (the black one ) i have about $6,000 but its been down 2 time and rebuilt. my build off bike
not that much sold a bike and sold a lot of parts may be a grand. but it's not done yet!!!!
 
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Mine is only about $1200 as it sits. Seat need covering and the whole thing needs paint, but it is not breaking any retirement accounts so far.:bike:
 
About $10k if I had to guess. Over half in the paint and this bad boy from Hugh. Wasn't the way I was planning on going, but only way I could make it to ride with my grandfather and dad together one last time. Figure it was worth the price. Not to mention it rips.

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I'm still under $500 on top of purchase price. If you can avoid custom paint, custom exhaust, aftermarket charging/ignition, and engine upgrades it can still be a cheap platform.
 
In 2003 I sold my last Harley, a totally tricked out FLSTN. Flow benched heads, Screaming Eagle induction, all the stuff that Harley owners fall victim to. That bike was into me for something like $22K. Sold it for $18k and put the money in the bike account.

Bought a 98' Magna with 1900 miles for $3,400...a 78' SR500 with 1750 miles for $2,500...a '78 XS with 5600 miles for $1,200...and a 77' XS with 6000 miles for $1,000. Other than normal maintenance I've put nothing in the Magna, and maybe $1,500 in each of the Yamahas.

After all that there is still about $5,400 in the account and who knows how much I saved by punting golf. Works for me. :laugh:

roy
 
I stopped counting a long time ago . I am never going to get back what I got into this bike but I don't really mind , I plan on keeping it for a long time and every $ I spend on it just makes it that much better to ride .
 

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