What do you pay to keep your SD on the road

Be interesting to know what everyone pays in the way of registration to be legal on the road.
Here in NSW Australia we pay $110 Registration and $607 for Compulsory third party insurance.
That does not include any other insurances to cover the bike or rider.
So $710 every 12 months before we can think about riding down the road.
How do we compare?

My insurance is £150 a year fully comp, road tax is £42 for six months

£42 I think for road extortion
£156 for the SD ,Mille,blade ,insurance
£30 for the mot
About £7 a gallon for fuel
Additions this year have been 2 batteries , 1 regrect unit ,chain and sprockets

- 80€ third party insurance ( special bike package agreement, befor was paying 170€ for the same third party insurance at another insurance company )
- 120€ road tax
- around 20€ for a full tank of 98ron


No mot around here, but it's beeing delayed year after year, it'll come and then at lest 28€ like I pay for my car.

Not cheap, but not expensive. Can afford to keep it even tough it's just a sunny day bike

57,82 € insurance for 6 months, which is valid in all EU.

Wow sounds like you Aussie boys are being bent over and raped on insurance ect. And I thought we had it bad!

My insurance was just £98 fully comp!!

Tax and MOT is about £100 all in.

Just add fuel and go

Cheap hobby really.....

It's Aussie dollars
710 is about £35 innit ?

Insurance 69/month for all Europe (this includes theft, damage to the bike if I crash myself etc)
Road tax is 96/yr
No mot needed here so that's 904 euro/yr

€780 third party insurance €88 tax ,no mot i can't realy complain its my first road bike and I'm 26 on a provisional lience
driving test on the 30th fingers crossed

£96 fully comp for the year .

OK guys, think I got this one.
I'll quote prices in U$ dollars:

Registration: around 55$ (for 500+ cc motorcycles)

Insurance:
Compulsory: 1485$
3rd party: 174$

Now, our compulsory insurance, is only for "body damages", that will cover any damage you cause yourself, pillion, pedestrians and other involved motorists. The coverage is pretty much the best you can get for your money, but it's still fooking expensive and is a must. Consider that's what I pay for 28 y\o, 12 years licence, no reported accidents and not even a speeding ticket. If I had 2 years experience, it would've been about 1780$...

3rd party only covers damage to 3rd party property, so you're probably wondering now where's the insurance for the bike in case it's stolen, crashed, catches on fire.. Well, it would have cost me about 1400$ just to insure it, and that's if I could have found an insurance company that would.

You see, here comes the best part, because of our crazy taxes, every vehicle is taxed at around 112%-125%, so my 2007 SD is worth about 15,000$. Yep, you read it right. When my friend bought it new in 2007, he did not get change from 41,000$. Prices been slashed after a few years so today you can buy one for 32,870$
And it's not just the SD, yeah?
A Suzuki Wee-Strom will cost you 19,726$...

So... You still think the Aussies are the ones getting bent over?

Well here in QLD Australia, for my solo seater SDR, all up costs are about $230 for 12 months. The CTP is greatly reduced for a single seater.

Haha you guys can´t complain....

Road tax for all mc above 50CC US $ 300
Comprehensive Motorcycle Insurance: US $ 2800

*edit:
The price for the "new" not so fast SDR is about US $ 32000!

Okay, using about GBP 0.52 to the SGD.

Dealer 2010 SDR on the road, new GBP 20k.Includes: Import duty at 15% of OMV, Registration fee at another 15% of OMV, another GBP75 for another registration fee.

Plus: $1700 for certificate of entitlement (yes, you have to have a licence to entitle you to own the vehicle.. Cars cost much more than this - currently SGD82k (GBP 40k! - yes more than double the car cost itself in some cases). One time fee. Valid for ten years.
Plus: Road tax at GBP350 per annum.
Plus: Comprehensive insurance at GBP370 per annum.

Petrol - Shell V-Power is $2.54 (GBP 1.32) a litre.

So, who thought they had it tough??

Having a look through the above I`m thinking we are not that bad off
Bloody Queenslanders get cheap rates , I`m sure we in NSW subsidise your cost

Why doesnt everybody just buy a UK one (You could for example have mine for less than 6K) and skip all the taxes. I wouldn't even mind if you kept it registered at my UK address if that helped

Seriously who the hell can afford 30K+ for a bike and 3K+ a year before fueling and maintaining it? I'm astonished anybody bothers at all, certainly I wouldn't. Makes the 6K I paid and the £200 ish in taxes and insurance seem like a good deal!!

I'm now wondering of there is a business to be had offering tax free motorcycles to Norwegians [/quote]

Problem is that if I get pulled over by the cops i have to pay taxes, around 20-50% of the new price of the mc in norway, depending on how old it is.

Saw an price qoute in the newspaper couple of days ago:

Sweden: a new Chevrolet Camaro cab : 69 000 US$
Norway: Same car: 236 500 US$ [/quote]

Are you not allowed to ride forign owned / registered bikes??

In Portugal to get fully comp you must be paying the bike to the bank.

If you own a older, second hand bike it's almost impossible to get fully comp, and the price is ridiculous.

My mate has just moved to Singapore and warns 150K+ with extra allowances and an income tax rate at 10%. He thinks he had a better std of living here earning less than half that and a 45% tax rate so you may have a point.

On the other hand I bet income tax in Norway is off the scale so you would need to be earning five times as much to even things out so I'm guessing its less relative than you suggest!'

Average pay here in Israel means you need to spend about 15.5 salaries to buy a new SD, but that's when not considering taxes or any other expenses for that matter. if to consider disposable income as just post-taxes, it would be around 28-30 salaries.

In reality, you'd never be able to to buy a new motorcycle here if you earn the average salary, unless you sleep on the street and eat from the garbage cans. An SD is a rich man's toy of course if bought new. For that reason and some more, only 5 were sold here in 6 years...

558$ annual registration, ( not legal to ride from from dec15 to march 15, winter tyre law), for non sport bike over 400cc. 134$ per year for motorcycle " drivers " license. 300$ for responsibility, fire and theft insurance, if I'm in an accident I fix it...

Tax isn't much on mine, license is $16 per year.
Full coverage insurance for the SD and LC4 combined is $150 a year.