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

Jeremy Sproket

My bike is a second hand unisex hybrid. I bought it for €100.
Yes, I verified the ownership before buying :P he showed my photos of him on it with his amateur cycling clubmates and gave me the receipt that he had from the bike shop.

My car is an old but reliable and immaculate Nissan Micra, worth about €1,000 at a push.

Bike value: €100.
Car value: €1,000.

Percentage of bike of car value: 10%

Let's see if we can achieve over 100% for someone's bike

sparrowcar

There was a thread similar to this years ago either here or maybe reddit.
It was how much your car was worth as a percentage of your house. Needless to say it was an eye opener. Far too many Range Rovers parked outside 2 bed mid terraces if I recall.

Anyway should be interesting.

Car €20k according to carzone
Bike 1 MTB €4.5k
Bike 2 Road €1.5k
Bike 3 BMX €500

Percentage 32.5%

Reason for edit.. adding all bikes as others have

CantGetNoSleep

sparrowcar wrote: »

There was a thread similar to this years ago either here or maybe reddit.
It was how much your car was worth as a percentage of your house. Needless to say it was an eye opener. Far too many Range Rovers parked outside 2 bed mid terraces if I recall.

Anyway should be interesting.

Car €20k according to carzone
Bike €4.5k
Percentage 22.5%

My figures are almost identical to that for my most expensive bike.

Add in the other six and I think I'd top the 100% though

Fann Linn

Bike €2.5k Bianchi
Car €2.5k 08 Toyota.

Both performing great.

Jeremy Sproket

You're all putting me to shame with your fancy bikes :P Your bikes are worth multiples of my car :pac:

ednwireland

car 7k 131 kia

bike 3.5k cannondale di2 carbon wheels
bike 2 300 10 ye old focus
bike 3 300 planet x kaffenback
bike4 28 year ol aluminium o (classic value ? )

dont forget

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.

07Lapierre

Bike 1: about 6k
Bike 2: about 3k
Bike 3: about 1k
Bike 4: €500 or what ever I can get for it.
Spare wheels: €1200

Car: about 10k and dropping.

secman

Car €4,000

Bike 1 €3.500
Bike 2 €3,500
Bike 3 €500
Bike 4 €300 soon to be sold
Bike 5 vintage 27 year old Rapparee value...sentimental

ednwireland

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

You're all putting me to shame with your fancy bikes :P Your bikes are worth multiples of my car :pac:

regretting asking yet ?????:D:D:D:D:D

Seth Brundle

Bike 1 (2019) €1800
Bike 2 (2013) €500
(Need a bike 3 - what are you selling secman?)
Car purchased before Christmas after a driver did an dangerous & illegal turn and killed my last one - 162 BMW 520d @ €25k

fat bloke

Well I paid 6 and a half grand for my cervelo and 2 and a half for my Golf!

smacl

Don't drive but have an inherited car in the driveway that I keep meaning to learn on at some time. Like myself, both the bike and the car are getting on a bit and not much to look at. Bike is my primary vehicle, could probably get €2-4k for the car but will probably give it to a mate who's in need of a new motor.

Fann Linn

fat bloke wrote: »

Well I paid 6 and a half grand for my cervelo and 2 and a half for my Golf!

Priorities.

Tombo2001

The bike I bought recently is possibly worth more than my car.

As much a reflection on the car as the bike.

The thing about the car is that whether its cheap or expensive, it gets me from A to B.

Whereas I bike, I really feel the benefits of spending up.

secman

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(Need a bike 3 - what are you selling secman?)
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Caad9 54cm
http://www.adverts.ie/...gra-bbq-55cm/6949398.
Feels more like a 56cm.
The original advert when I bought it.
Its running well but seatpost is seized and i need to drop it by approx 1 inch according to a bike fit. Just trying to eliminate a back issue that keeps flaring up, doing pilates, changed office chair and selling the Caad9.
You did ask Seth

Daroxtar

Ah jaysus, I have a fully custom, hand built Sarto bike and a 20 year old Yaris .
Give or take, about 3000%

Seth Brundle

secman wrote: »

Caad9 54cm
http://www.adverts.ie/...gra-bbq-55cm/6949398.

Link not working and I can't find it on Adverts

68 lost souls

Bike is probably 2% although talking actual values in here is probably I’ll advised as there is enough info on your profile and listing the values of cars and bikes to be stolen is not a great idea.

secman

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Link not working and I can't find it on Adverts

Was trying to upload an old adverts link, not currently up on adverts or anywhere at the moment. Leave it with me and I'll try to sort something.

Grassey

Isn't it a bit mad that the cost of a car is so cheap when you consider the amount of materials in it... And a bike is so expensive for 8kg of carbon, and a 1kg of assorted shiny parts

Landlord21

fat bloke wrote: »

Well I paid 6 and a half grand for my cervelo and 2 and a half for my Golf!

6.5k for bicycle??

Am reading that right? ^_^

Beasty

Well one of the cars is worth €1k

6 of my bikes are each worth more than that

Both our other cars are worth more than any of the bikes

Overall I would say

Total bike value =40% of total car value
Total bike value = 50% of horse van value
Total bike value = 50% of total tractor value

Conclusion? I think I need some more bikes.....

Beasty

Landlord21 wrote: »

6.5k for bicycle??

Am reading that right? ^_^

Yep - he's a bit of a cheapskate. Three of my Cervelos cost more than that. The other two are track bikes and a bit cheaper

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Well one of the cars is worth €1k

6 of my bikes are each worth more than that

Both our other cars are worth more than any of the bikes

Overall I would say

Total bike value =40% of total car value
Total bike value = 50% of horse van value
Total bike value = 50% of total tractor value

Conclusion? I think I need some more bikes.....

If only those bikes were vintage you'd be saving a fortune on road tax wha?

fat bloke

Landlord21 wrote: »

6.5k for bicycle??

Am reading that right? ^_^

And that was back in 2012. 10 grand wouldn't buy its equivalent today.

magicbastarder

i'm confused as to whether i should list resale value of car against new value of bike or not.
my car was probably 20-25k new in 2012 when it was made, my bike probably 3k value new.

Landlord21

Landlord21 wrote: »

6.5k for bicycle??

Am reading that right? ^_^

Wait till you see this. Lets say you have a frame, saddle + seat post, wheels and handlebars but need everything else like gearing, brakes etc. and bear in mind those parts I first mentioned alone could get you to 6.5k probably.

https://www.bike24.com/p2215743.html

EDIT: I remember one of the men who won that big lotto jackpot as part of a syndicate around naul in recent times being on local radio telling the presenter he'd get a new bike and the presenter being a bit taken at what bikes could cost.

crosstownk

I don't own a car but I do use my wife's car occasionally. Based on the RRP of both, the bike is 14%. Hard to say what the current used values are.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Car 1 - daily driver €3000
Car 2 - AWD snow car €1000
Car 3 - garage queen classic car €12500

Bike 1 - S-Works Roubaix - €3000
Bike 2 - Felt VR30 - €1000
Bike 3 - Cube Attain - €400
Bike 4 - Cube LTD Race 29er - €500

Cars - € 16500
Bikes - €4900

So approximately 30%

TheW1zard

ednwireland wrote: »

car 7k 131 kia

bike 3.5k cannondale di2 carbon wheels
bike 2 300 10 ye old focus
bike 3 300 planet x kaffenback
bike4 28 year ol aluminium o (classic value ? )

dont forget

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.

Refer to rule 25!
I think I'd be 50% lol

Eamonnator

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

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.

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....

AndrewJRenko

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

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

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?

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

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.”

cletus

crosstownk wrote: »

I'm surprised this hasn't been referenced yet.



*

Enfilade referenced it 6 posts in...

crosstownk

cletus wrote: »

edwinireland referenced it 6 posts in...

I see it now. My speed reading abilities continue to diminish.

cletus

crosstownk wrote: »

I see it now. My speed reading abilities continue to diminish.

As are mine, it would seem...

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Breezer

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

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

fatbhoy

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

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.

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!

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.