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You could buy a brand new sportsbike, immediately bin it into a ditch and never ride it again for less than that.
More sensibly:
£4-5k on a bike
£1k on gear
£1k on training
£500-1000 insuranceThe bike will probably be worth similar after a year if it’s not for you - my first bike (2001 CBR600) I bought for £1500 and sold for £2k after a couple of years.
Dramatic_Hammer
The cars which are (to me) utilitarian in nature I tend to favour lots of torque- 720Nm in the E63 from, basically, idle onwards.
But cars which are for fun? Put it this way- the 911 engine is being built with ITB’s, very lumpy cams, and the entire valve train has been re-engineered for an 8,500rpm redline. 1,300 higher than the stock unit.
Which of course poses the question of what would a motorcycle be for?
And the answer to that is that it would be for fun.
In terms of size and shape, I’m very flexible, 187cm and 79kg. I have been told (although the teller was not of unimpeachable authority) that I’d be too tall for a Ducati. I’d be happy for them to be wrong.
And the over riding motivation here is to try a powered bike out and have some fun, without losing a leg.
Some context- owning the E63 for a year cost me around £12,000, which surprised me when I added it up, but it was a thirsty beast. Ideally I’d like my foray into motorcycling to cost less than that.