What would you do?

[flyinbike]

Well I have a decision to make. Im currently looking at a 83 s-10 with a 350 in it and it runs good. Nice truck for $3000, but I also want to buy a brand new triumph daytona 675. Should I buy the truck as a daily driver then cruise with vision on the weekends? Or should I just drive the vision daily and take the daytona out on the weekends or for cruises?

I figureI can only get one or the other. Bike or truck?I'm living at home and just need to travel 15kms to school everyday... :-\

[Kid Jedi]

Depends, will you ride in the rain?
Say your vision craps out ( and say burns a stator?), that truck sure would be nice to use to pick her up! if you change your mind later the value on that truck is not gonna go down much, but that Daytona will loose 2k in resale as soon as you sign the pink.

if you wait a year that truck will not change much, but you never know what improvements next years motorcycle will have

And that truck seems a little pricey


What if you hurt your self and cant ride to class?

[Kojo]

I don't know about the 675.. I like the look of the Bonneville much more  ;)

If you live in an area that rains quite a bit, and you don't feel like carrying riding clothes during the day and your daytime clothes while you ride (In a plastic garbage bag to keep them dry, a trick I learned doing mountain backpacking) and being generally wet and dirty, then I'd get another bike.

Personally, I like to buy used (Since the devaluation that Kid Jedi mentioned has been taken for you) with low miles. You don't always get EXACTLY what you want, but it is sure cheaper. But that's another issue.

Oh! Another thing I just thought of is if your job might need you to haul some things, it sure is handy to have a car or truck. And picking up ladies for a night out is much easier to convince them if you've got a car or truck rather than just a motorcycle. But that might not be a problem for you ;D

[Re-Vision]

Buy the Daytona if you have access to an automobile during inclement weather.  I'd rather have a new Triumph than an old truck any day.  I've always regretted not buying that new Norton 750 about forty years ago ($1100).  Jmo.  BDC

[flyinbike]

I think I would ride in the rain most days, but might get sick of it after a while. Maybe I should just consider buying a cheaper beater just in case, then buy the daytona?

[sunburnedaz]

Get the Daytona, and by a cheap (like sub 500 or sub 1000) beater car for bad days, groceries etc. Get a cheap hitch for it and you can get a little adapter to pull the bikes with should they break down or need to head to the shop.

[flyinbike]

Get the Daytona, and by a cheap (like sub 500 or sub 1000) beater car for bad days, groceries etc. Get a cheap hitch for it and you can get a little adapter to pull the bikes with should they break down or need to head to the shop.

exactly my thoughts! but im living at home and dont need to buy groceries! uahuha

[vadasz1]

I don't see a need for such a big engine just for commuting to scholl for.  I do if you are hauling big loads or are planning to drag race the truck.  But I would buy a beater truck like the Kid said and use it for hauling the bikes whenever they require repair.  Also you can deffer the Daytona and put that money into making a really customized Vision.  Right Kid Jedi?  8)

[kiawrench]

fly . save the money, skip them both , buy a small truck with a realistic price 3k for a project truck is just too high. offer the guy 750 for it , then go pick a better bike .

[Kid Jedi]

the vision is going to be my 6k motorcycle. I am up to about 2.5k already

[funkamongus]

whew.. lots o cash.. Times must be good in your neck of the woods.

[Brian Moffet]

And people think I am insane for spending 3100 for mine when I did....

Brian

[funkamongus]

Its not insane if you have it.. Im glad for you guys!

[Brian Moffet]

remember though, my 3100 was in 1986 dollars  ;D

[funkamongus]

not a bad investment considering its still on the road!!!

[Kid Jedi]

its easy to justify 8k for a modern motorcycle, I could make the vision modern for less than that much!

[flyinbike]

Yeah the daytona is $14,000 out the door. I will have a big down payment of about $7,000, so monthly payments should be less than $140/month.

Which isn't bad.....

[Kid Jedi]

Don't get me wrong, there aren't many points in your life when you can go out an buy a bike like that, now, and after your kids move out, buying that bike would be a good jump start on a good credit score, just make sure you have a working car in case shite hits the fan

[Lucky]

We could retitle this post WWJD? (What Would Jedi Do?) ;D

[don_vanecek]

I don't see where you live. To have your MC as your primary vehicle will take a really special commitment irregardless of where you live and frankly is not realalistic in the part of the county that I live in (eastern NE). I haven't seen any posts by Zore for some time-he was about the most committed daily rider I have seen on this forum-didn't he also have a Daytona?  If you lived in my area I would tell you the bike (rather Vision or any other) is sure great fun for maybe five months if your pretty hard core but you better make sure you have a dependable four wheeler for the rest of the time.  Zore, where are you????

There certainly however is some truth to the augment that if you don't get it now you may never get it later in life-the people that I know who get to move on to bigger and better bikes are either single or have wife's who also enjoy either riding with or driving their own bikes-so make sure that girl you date enjoys the rides also! 

One last comment, unless you are your own mechanic, I would be just abit leary of an old S-10 with a 350 put in it-any problems and shops may not want to work on that (could be however that 350 will last forever).