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I agree with you if owning a bike is an additional expense over the car. If owning the bike means owning one fewer car, the bike definitely saves money. Newer bikes, particularly water cooled ones have a pretty decent life span. Not 200K, but, one hell of a lot more than 10K. they are cheap to insure, taxes are lower and maintenance costs are quite low simply because there is a lot less there to break. Tires typically do go quickly, but, i suspect this is partly due to a typical bike rider's aggressive riding. One ridden for economy ought to do quite a bit better.
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