Bike deaths rising

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Verdigris"

Hmmm... sometimes. Istr a lot of HP deals would include the cost of kit
and the first year's insurance - which didn't really make any sense
financially, to be still paying off that first year for the next two or
three years.

Ee, I remember my first year's insurance premium; actually it was around
three week's wages in real terms, since I'd just left school and was
earning shit money.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
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My first year's insurance was £300, on a bike that cost £506 brand
new.

As I was on £15 a week in a Saturday job, I didn't think it was *that*
cheap.

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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote

One week as a 1st year apprentice on a serious shite old 125 scoot.

 

Stonge says...

Bollocks. In 1983 I was 21, and I had a 2 year old GSX750 and an RD400
parked in the garage. I wasn't all that well paid either.

 

[nods]

 

No it wasn't. As a %age of the cost of the bike, I think it was a lot
more.

 

Hmm, my insurance premium is around 2 weeks wages and I'm not earning
shit money.

 

ISTR paying IRO 150 notes to insure a 700 quid bike back in 1978, so
yes, I think you're right.

 

My insurance premium is just over a day's wages, and I'm not earning
/good/ money.

 

You premium is a quarter of mine.

Mine you, my salary is probably a quarter of yours.

 

My first insurance (£55 IIRC) was about 20% of the bikes value.

 

*that's* the problem.

You've crashed, right?

Some other biker nodded at you, right?

There you go then.

 

I'd be immensely surprised if this was actually the case.

 

My first bike cost £110, and I think the insurance was £65 !

 

Mine must have been similar - the bike cost £120...

 

Champ () wrote:
: My first bike cost £110, and I think the insurance was £65 !

My first road bike was a GP100 in 1983. My folks bought it ... #190.

Blair.
'97 CBR600

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Ooh, I remember that (from a few years before), first NU rider policy I
had covered me up to 350cc for the grand total of £17.

Ee, and beer was one and a tanner a pint.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Hm. Maybe it's just my imagination. Of course, I started a lot later in
life so never had to personally suffer the worst the insurance companies
have to offer.

 

I had my Z750 in 1982.

It cost £1100, second hand, from Mocheck Clapham.

£360 TPFT in London, or about 10% of my salary on insurance.

Sensible didn't come into it.

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Hereabouts.