Yearly maintenance costs
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Yearly maintenance costs
I'm doing some shopping right now and trying to figure out the total costs for a bike. One of my questions is how much I should be expecting for yearly maintenance. It might vary wildly from person to person but I'm just trying to get a feel.
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Thanks for your help!!!
Welcome to the Forum. That is a really hard question to answer because it all depends on you, like jason628 said. New ones need a 1000 mile and then every 5000 mile service which run about $300.00 for the stealer or about $60.00 for DIY'ers. You also have to consider that if you get bitten by the Chrome bug these essential additions may have to be referred to as maintenance items in order to keep the peace in the household. This is not the case in mine but I have heard that this is necessary in certain circumstances. Good luck with your purchase remember to always keep the rubber side down.
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are you doing the work? or are you paying the dealership?
then how many miles are you riding?
20k a year... I go through 1 front tire, and 1 1/2 rears, plus brakes, oil, filters.....
neighbor has a sportster, she goes through one battery, and MAYBE 2 tanks of gas...
then how many miles are you riding?
20k a year... I go through 1 front tire, and 1 1/2 rears, plus brakes, oil, filters.....
neighbor has a sportster, she goes through one battery, and MAYBE 2 tanks of gas...
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Just Dave got the oil number down, now just add in tires. My rear tire needed replacing at 7,000 miles. Others have gotten more mileage. That's $301 installed for the OEM Dunlop from the Stealer. I still have the original front. Someone else can voluteer the mileage and cost for that one. You've got a long wait before you need much more than oil and tires.
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If you buy a bike for say $18,000 and properly feed and care for it's needs over a period of two to three years, you will spend another 18 -20K... Remember, the purchase price of a Harley is only a small down payment.
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If you do it all yourself, you should easily come under a grand for the first 20K miles. That's the 500, 1000, 5000, 10,000, 15,000 and 20,000 services and three rear tires and two front tires. Add $75 if you overuse your brakes and don't have a washable air filter. Ray
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Thanks for the replies guys! I do plan on doing as much maintenance myself as I feel comfortable with (oil changes, etc). I definitely want to ride as much as possible too, I'm guessing 5k-10k a year. Since I will be riding it to work I doubt that will be hard to hit.