Anyone costed their season of desmodue ?

[couchcommando]

After 14 rounds of racing a GSXR750 I am looking for a cheaper race series next year, having spent an evening with a desmodue racer he has almost convinced me your series is the way to go. So has anyone costed it out ? Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has :o:o

[domski]

You could race for 10 years in Desmo Due for that money!!!!

I reckon you're looking at £250 a meeting on average, and we have 6? meetings next season, plus one at Assen :D

So £2000 should do it.

[TP]

I reckon I've spent ITRO £7k all up.

I'm too scared to add it up though.

[TP]

Although that will be a lot less when the bike is sold ... so not too bad really.

[TP]

And yes, I'm just getting .....

[TP]

.... my post count up :D

;)

[stevebale]

I guess including the bike we have spent circa 9k oh plus 200k on the hospitality tour bus...

[domski]

Originally posted by stevebale
I guess including the bike we have spent circa 9k oh plus 200k on the hospitality tour bus...

Priorities sorted :lol::lol::lol:

[stevebale]

Totally... Ive camped in a tent at Spa.. i rest my case

[Rattler]

Yep - I reckon circa £7.5K all in - haven't added it up exactly, but with the price of the bike, parts, trackdays, entries etc, etc - seems about right.

Tim

[butch890]

So far with only Cadders to go ,total for one bike is £7100,if you take off the bikes resale it would be 2200 ish(including £328 for damage (all at 1st cadders!)
Butch

[paynep]

About £5k, including entries, but not trackdays, petrol or beer.

This has included a fair amount of repairs and an abortive grand spent on a big-bore kit/flatslides/tuning/re-tuning/not finding those hypothetical horses

[twpd]

Originally posted by couchcommando
After 14 rounds of racing a GSXR750 I am looking for a cheaper race series next year, having spent an evening with a desmodue racer he has almost convinced me your series is the way to go. So has anyone costed it out ? Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has :o:o

Come Minitwin racing Tony. You on a Ducati? I'll believe it when I see if and if I do see it I'll buy you a beer. :o

[antonye]

Yes, I stopped counting at £2500 but apart from a couple of hundred more in parts and then meeting costs, that was about it.

Click the link in my .sig for details...

[TP]

Originally posted by twpd
Originally posted by couchcommando
After 14 rounds of racing a GSXR750 I am looking for a cheaper race series next year, having spent an evening with a desmodue racer he has almost convinced me your series is the way to go. So has anyone costed it out ? Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has :o:o

Come Minitwin racing Tony. You on a Ducati? I'll believe it when I see if and if I do see it I'll buy you a beer. :o

Oi! There's enough people already ;)

Got that 800 sorted out yet?

[AK]

Snotmobile in full tracktrim is standing in total: approx £3k - this includes the extra's purchased: Fairings, 620 engine, the 6 speed gearbox & big bore 'kit' - which was as we suspected, a complete waste of time at Castle & Snett. Also included are rebuilt forks & rear susp.
Remember tho, the bike was a 2001 M600 carbed, brought for under £1k

I will add that some parts fitted came out of AK's spares bins, from other projects, thus saving overall in costs.

Not included is costing for Dyno work at MHP, by Mark - as this was done on part sponsor/part AK crewing for him.

Andy did the paintwork for nowt, and AK has done all the mech work etc himself.

Not included in top costings; 2 sets of tyres (one set new just before Brands, so only 2 sets for season) travel, beer, food, entries & fuel at track.

We did of course also purchase the Tango Queen just before Brands - not for any where near what some of you guessed, but I'm going to be using her myself as a road bike this winter, till the race season gets going.


C:)

[twpd]

Originally posted by TP
Oi! There's enough people already ;)
Got that 800 sorted out yet?

Sssshhhhh! I don't know what you're talking about. :puzzled:

[skidlids]

I haven't quite added all the figures together yet, but I will be suprised if the total cost of my season in Desmo Due exceeds £3500 inclusive of every thing, bike, tyres, fuel for bike and van, sprockets,entries etc.
In truth it will have cost me less than that as the bike is down as owing me £2050 but that includes putting a price on the bits out of my parts bin and as yet I haven't sold any bits on,

[Felix]

Originally posted by couchcommando
Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has

Bloody hell! 20k???!!! Surely that's not typical of the thunderbikes. Are you the one who had all that trouble with tuned 750 engines?

[phoenix n max]

3 sets of tyres @£120 a set less sold on 3 sets @£60
High Level Exhausts £200
RearSets £100
Fibreglass, salad bowl and paint - oooo less than a tenner
£50 acu test
£25 membership
£47 membership
£90 entries x 6 meetings
£140 x 6 in fuel-food etc for 5 or more folks!
I wont count track and test days cos i'd have done those or toured anyway.
2 x sprockets £30
Twin Disc conversion £100
3 x oil filters @£3.50 each
Belly Pan £40
One dyno run £30


Hmmm - take off around £1000 in sponsorship in one form and another and I'd say I haven't done too bad on a ickle monster with 25k on it that I also ride at weekends.

For me its not what i spend it's what i want out of it. Me I gave it a go. I may be last most of the time, but I ain't ever gonna be Rossi anyway and I have got out there and done it. Something I won't ever forget. I also know that I am nowhere near the limits of my bike so there's no point in me wasting money on blinging it up.

After Sunday my bike will be back in road trim for Monday and i'll be out through winter riding like I normally do till season starts next year :)

To me thats what Desmo Due series means.

[Chris Wood]

Here you go for #10.

Totals
Bike and Setup 3095
Testing 385
Racing 1235
Total 4715

Not a bad deal for the enjoyment of it..split between two racers.

[multi600]

Total so far £7750.00 not including the cost of getting to the meetings or trackdays:o
Next year should be cheaper as no bike to buy and no trailer to buy.

[couchcommando]

Originally posted by Felix
Originally posted by couchcommando
Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has

Bloody hell! 20k???!!! Surely that's not typical of the thunderbikes. Are you the one who had all that trouble with tuned 750 engines?

Yeh that was me ! I ended up buying a brand new K5 750 in the crate and racing that instead of the tuned SRAD. The SRAD is now sorted but what a year of fun that was....NOT ;)

Thanks for all the replies folks, going thro all the options now :)

[NBs996]

Some of the numbers pasted on here are scarey! But i s'pose it shows that it can be as expensive/cheap as you want to make it.

I've kept a running total all season of every penny spent from buying the bike, a matching set of leathers at £500 (it had to be done!) down to the cost of the odd nut'n'bolt and packet of t-bags. All the petrol costs, testing days, entry fees, camping gear... in fact everything that I wouldn't have bought had I not been racing has been accounted for.

Total so far is £3422.28

Next season should be a fraction of that... I hope!

[skidlids]

Originally posted by NBs996
I've kept a running total all season of every penny spent from buying the bike, a matching set of leathers at £500 (it had to be done!) down to the cost of the odd nut'n'bolt and packet of t-bags. All the petrol costs, testing days, entry fees, camping gear... in fact everything that I wouldn't have bought had I not been racing has been accounted for.

Total so far is £3422.28

Next season should be a fraction of that... I hope!

That must have been one cheap 620 if that cost includes testdays, leathers, tyres, all fuel etc