Fuel And Cost Efficiency of Motorcycles

It has been a hot topic in recent times - are motorbikes so much more fuel efficient than cars? To get straight in to this topic - I will give a straight up answer to this - yes! Of course, depending on your situation (as I have touched on in previous articles), it may not be just the fuel efficiency you need to take in to account here. Of course, large families which sell their car or cars to purchase a motorbike will almost certainly be worse off. But let’s stay away from that idea, and look at just a single person, living alone.

For this single person to switch, the efficiencies would be greatly discovered. Firstly, motorcycles use a quarter of the fuel that cars use - to travel the same distance. With fuel prices constantly fluctuating as if there was no tomorrow, it’s very difficult to predict the price you will be paying at the pump. Whilst this doesn’t affect some people, others will need to plan and budget for these costs. Having a motorcycle instead of a car will help in this budgeting process, because the relative amounts you are spending on petrol will be far less.

Another thing to know when buying a motor bike is that bike insurance is generally less than car insurance. This is a very big generalization, but it is true most of the time. It is especially true if you find yourself downgrading the price of your car to the price of your motorbike. What I mean is - if you have a car valued at $30,000 and you then decide to sell it and switch to a motorbike, it’s most unlikely that you will buy a bike for $30,000 also. For a very good motorcycle, you could expect to pay $10,000 to $15,000. Hence, this automatically saves you $15,000 or so! This is before the fuel savings and the lower. insurance premiums.