Specialist sports bike rentals

[djt77]

With so few places about that offer sports bike rentals what are peoples thoughts if such bikes as Aprilia/Bimota/Ducati/MV would be available to hire? Would you be interested in hiring and what sort of price do you think would be reasonable?

[Drasius]

I don't think we have any roads within a reasonable distance to justify my hiring one personally. Over in euro-land, it's about 200 E/day for a 1x98 and 0.50 E/km after you exceed your allowance of kms (which is usually small for people used to travelling on a bike over here). Some places I enquired at only had an allowance of 50kms/day for short term hires, which would mean I would spend more than double the hire price in extras. In short, my reasonable price would probably send you out of business.

Given that they are usually not made for touring and are track oriented, perhaps a track focus (with a "reasonable" additional fee if you bring it back in more than 1 piece). Many people have a bunky for the track so when they bin it they won't be quite so shattered, this might allow people to have a go on a high end bike in a place it was made to be without the hassle of owning/prepping/maintaining/storing/transporting a track bike?

[Stoneville]

I wouldn't I'd just go test ride one

[R160]

they had that concept over east but i here the business partners fell out and it went belly up. I'd hire one for a day or two, i guess price comes down to servicing, depreciation etc?

[possum]

Would def hire a track setup bike with all the goodies, would pay $300 a day. I know that champion's offer some cbr's but they're not real track/race bikes, they're road bikes with fairings.

[Stoneville]

You prepared to pay the $3k if you stack it?? That's the charge on Philip Island

[Mo-Fo]

I wouldn't I'd just go test ride one

Ahhh but why pay when you can do it for free from a dealership.

I'd hire a sportsbike but only to practice silly stuff on that I won't try on my own one.

[Stoneville]

I'd hire a sportsbike but only to practice silly stuff on that I won't try on my own one.

yeh heaps off stuff I'd like to try, but I like my bikes the way they are

Maybe when I get really sick of one of them I might turn it into a do anything to it bike Yammies getting close

[possum]

You prepared to pay the $3k if you stack it?? That's the charge on Philip Island

If the damage exceeds an excess of $3k, I wouldn't have a problem.. depends on the conditions I guess. Seems reasonable though.

[Mo-Fo]

yeh heaps off stuff I'd like to try, but I like my bikes the way they are

Maybe when I get really sick of one of them I might turn it into a do anything to it bike Yammies getting close

Tell ya what Stoney, if you decide to do that I'll pay you for the privilege of practicing wheelies and endo's on it

[Stoneville]

If the damage exceeds an excess of $3k, I wouldn't have a problem.. depends on the conditions I guess. Seems reasonable though.

When we did our Philip Island trackday, an Italian on his honeymoon, binned the Daytona 600 in the first session on turn 2, came right back in and signed up for another one he kept that shiny side up

[Stoneville]

Tell ya what Stoney, if you decide to do that I'll pay you for the privilege of practicing wheelies and endo's on it

You'd have to go first though there mightn't be much left after I tried that, though I'm getting pretty good at endo's, trouble is the bloody thing is still worth around $6k, might wait a little longer

[Logie]

You'd have to go first though there mightn't be much left after I tried that, though I'm getting pretty good at endo's, trouble is the bloody thing is still worth around $6k, might wait a little longer

Keen to see stoney doing shenanigans!

[96]

Pretty sure causeway has bike hire now, though not sure what models that extends to.

As some have said, it would be mighty hard to find a price that worked for both parties. I'd expect to be able to out on roughly 300-400kms minimum if I was paying to use a bike, and if we said the bike makes it to 50,000km, then you have to cover costs in just over 100 rides. Unlikely.

As for the track, aside from jumping on to a foreign bike, a $3-5k excess is mimimal when you consider that you might destroy a $20000 machine. The only thing that would suck there, is any repairs would be at FULL price, and then some. So minor accidents would still reem you, hard!

[GETAGRIP]

You'd have to go first though there mightn't be much left after I tried that, though I'm getting pretty good at endo's, trouble is the bloody thing is still worth around $6k, might wait a little longer

Just practice with the GSX1000R, seems to work for me... Mostly

I've seen your wheelie on the quad, natural!

[SilentBob]

You'd have to go first though there mightn't be much left after I tried that, though I'm getting pretty good at endo's, trouble is the bloody thing is still worth around $6k, might wait a little longer

We can definitely bear witness to the fact Stoney can pull sweet endos.

[GETAGRIP]

The only thing that would suck there, is any repairs would be at FULL price, and then some. So minor accidents would still reem you, hard!

From what I hear the prices are very reasonable to have them repaired (PI hire GSX600R's) and they aren't out to screw you over.

[Drasius]

6ixxers aren't ducati's/MV's/aprillia's. I recall a nice white duc sitting in a workshop and having to pick myself up off the floor (and being very glad it wasn't mine) when told what it's repair cost would be to fix some very minor damage.

96 has it, though you should be able to sell it off once it reaches higher kms, you certainly won't get a huge amount since it will almost certainly be dropped at least once, and if it's out on the track, you'll have to tell people that, but you will certainly make something out of it. Still, making 25k (minus whatever you get back when you sell it) plus consumables, running costs and turning a profit back over 50,000kms sounds like it would be a tall order unless you charge some pretty crazy prices.

[R160]

I wouldnt be renting them out for track work, insurance would be super exxy, if its even possible. mature riders for country rides etc would be the go. maybe troll the web for any feedback on peeps experience renting the bikes the supercar club had ( Bimota Moto Morini etc)

[R160]

cool story in itself, tinkler, rich, but still a bottom feeding fucker...
Supercar Club To Be Placed In Administration: Report
and another
Nathan Tinkler

refers to the opposition as C*nts, and refused to rent cars to asians or arabs !?

THE young rich-lister Nathan Tinkler has been accused of thwarting the expansion of the luxury Supercar Club by refusing to allow it to do business with Asians or people from the Middle East.


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