FreudianSlip
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Having seen the wonderful deal budgie got on his new bike it set me thinking about how I could possibly justify spoiling myself even more than having a 2015 bike.
Typically (and frustratingly) I had little effort in dreaming up a ?business case? to tick the bean coonter in me. For those that dont have a bean counter heres my tenuous thread of thought.
I want (probably) the 2019 bike and by the time its out, my 2.5 year old bike will be 4. A new one (i.e. 67 reg) will be 18 months old and still covered by BMW warranty. Therefore I would expect to get more for the newer bike in px against the 2019.
My bike needs its 12k service (the brno trip..dunno if I mentioned that?), and the 18k big service this time next year. Significant costs.
I have done over 5k miles on this rear, so its nice and square. A replacement is needed and I cant seem to win any on here.
The ABS pro is included in the new bike.
The BMW warranty will need to br renewed on the current bike, again at cost. I may be able to recoup some of the warranty costs that I?ve already spent as I guess BMW will replace it with their own.
The chain and perhaps sprockets may need changing soon, however I am scraping the justification barrel with that one.
With all that said, im going to get BMW to put all my accessories onto the new bike for the cost on one hours labour which will save me days of spanner monkey effort and greatly reduce the risk of me cocking stuff up.
New bike will be red/black (saw that colour combo in the flesh on our ride out to Chris Walker Kawasaki and fell for it.) It?ll be a 67 reg and I should be able to pick ut up on the 1st September and then ride it up to Gretna Green that afternoon (getting quietly married there the following day) killing 2 birds with 1 stone. The wedding cost saving alone will pay for the new bike
Cost to change, 3950. So not as good-as budgies but good enough for me.
Typically (and frustratingly) I had little effort in dreaming up a ?business case? to tick the bean coonter in me. For those that dont have a bean counter heres my tenuous thread of thought.
I want (probably) the 2019 bike and by the time its out, my 2.5 year old bike will be 4. A new one (i.e. 67 reg) will be 18 months old and still covered by BMW warranty. Therefore I would expect to get more for the newer bike in px against the 2019.
My bike needs its 12k service (the brno trip..dunno if I mentioned that?), and the 18k big service this time next year. Significant costs.
I have done over 5k miles on this rear, so its nice and square. A replacement is needed and I cant seem to win any on here.
The ABS pro is included in the new bike.
The BMW warranty will need to br renewed on the current bike, again at cost. I may be able to recoup some of the warranty costs that I?ve already spent as I guess BMW will replace it with their own.
The chain and perhaps sprockets may need changing soon, however I am scraping the justification barrel with that one.
With all that said, im going to get BMW to put all my accessories onto the new bike for the cost on one hours labour which will save me days of spanner monkey effort and greatly reduce the risk of me cocking stuff up.
New bike will be red/black (saw that colour combo in the flesh on our ride out to Chris Walker Kawasaki and fell for it.) It?ll be a 67 reg and I should be able to pick ut up on the 1st September and then ride it up to Gretna Green that afternoon (getting quietly married there the following day) killing 2 birds with 1 stone. The wedding cost saving alone will pay for the new bike
Cost to change, 3950. So not as good-as budgies but good enough for me.
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& congratulations 🏍
