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[Richard230]

I used to belong to the Ninja 250 forum and the word there was that it was typical for the Ninja to need a replacement motor around 50K miles. Naturally, it depends upon how you ride and maintain the bike.  But if you ride it hard, the recommendation was to find a used motor from a crashed bike and install it when the original motor wears out. That appears to be cheaper than overhauling the motor with new parts.

[ColoPaul]

Thanks Protomech!  Cool site.

For ZF6,  Colorado, Ninja250:   20450 mile break-even.
For ZF9,  Colorado, Ninja250:   40498 mile break-even.
For EmpulseR, Colorado, Ninja250:  91402 mile break-even.


As a side note, I calculated that if I drive the Zero 36500 miles instead of my car, the money saved would pay for the purchase price of the Zero.

[CliC]

What it really piss me off (just to set the same tone he does)is the fact that this is not a gas bike -this summarizes everything- and trying to compare a Zero 9 series with a gas bike, is like comparing the "practical use" an SR-71 Blackbird with a Boeing 747 

I calculated the savings of riding the Zero vs. flying my SR-71, and the bike pays for itself in about 1 minute 23 seconds

[Lipo423]

Mmmm...Clic, you must be mistaken, I made the numbers, and I come up with 1 minute 22 seconds 

In the end, it is better to approach this with a good sense of humour...I wonder if there was any "particular" reason to approach the review that way...you never know...

I loved the way some of you guys reacted...it reminded me my "latin blood" behaviour