Yes, that's not much is it. We live on approx £1500 a month but that depends on how much work I do, if I didn't have my pension we'd really struggle.
My bikes are bought from my buying and selling so I keep that seperate from household stuff.
It's probably over 30 years since I owned one bike. So you guys/gals with only one bike how do you manage, do you not feel like getting another bike for a different type of riding ?
Well I just put in a claim for a new tank for my T700 and it was sorted in less than a month.
In the past I worked in a big mutli-franchise dealer in Bristol and they don't give a flying fuck in a lot of cases. I made the mistake of buying my Honda from that local dealer and bought a service package with it. I caught the wankers out when they didn't change the air-filter (amongst other things) as per service schedule.
When I bought my T700 I went to a smaller dealer 40 miles from me which deals with Yamaha and their service has been exemplary.
In a lot of the big dealers you are just a number, you don't get any customer service.