Free Diesel bike for me!

[Mouse]

Just did a rough totting up of costs and expenditure and I've just passed the point where the saving in fuel money has just exceed the cost of building the diesel bike.

Done about 4500 miles on the beasty at 90 mpg and would have been doing about 35mpgish on the Bandit and about the same cost for running the LPG powered BMW sidecar!

Miles..MPG.Gallons....Litres.....Cost @ £1.2 l
4500...90.....50...........227.5.....273
4500...35.....128.57.....585.......702


So £702 -£273 = £429 saved! and I reckon I built the bike for between £350 and £400

So by Christmas I would have also saved the cost of the new engine bits and machining making the bike essentially free

[coachgeo]

... just passed the point where the saving in fuel money has just exceed the cost of building the diesel bike.....So by Christmas I would have also saved the cost of the new engine bits and machining making the bike essentially free

[mexican mouse accent]Congratulato Amego [/accent off]

[Stuart]

Lol, that's the way to do it

[TedV]

Congrats!!

By the same fuel costs I figured my Jetta TDI is a free car a while back. 300K miles and counting

[oldbmw]

I have been getting over 90mpg on petrol with my electra, Sadly only 11,000 miles to the big end.