Home » Good News: You’ve Got The Dough To Add A Boat, Plane, Or Motorcycle To Your Fleet (Or All Three!) What Will You Choose? Autopian Asks

Good News: You’ve Got The Dough To Add A Boat, Plane, Or Motorcycle To Your Fleet (Or All Three!) What Will You Choose? Autopian Asks

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I have great news to tell you. All of your hard work over the years is paying off because tonight, a man in a highlighter-yellow trenchcoat will meet you in the back alley of a Walmart to give you a present. See, the man has observed your work as a sewer inspector and thinks you’ve done a bang-up job. So, he’s going to hand you more than enough money to buy all sorts of crazy vehicles. The only stipulation is that you have to spend the cash on vehicles that aren’t cars. So, what kind of boat, plane, train, or motorcycle are you buying?

Today is a great time to be and become a motorcyclist. The variety of motorcycles on the market and the prices associated with them means just about anyone can enjoy two wheels. Want disgusting, life-threatening amounts of power? Swing a leg over a Kawasaki Ninja H2. Want to feel like you’re riding a time machine? Janus Motorcycles and Royal Enfield have plenty of classically styled fare. Even if your wallet isn’t bulging, you can get affordable motorcycles, too. A Honda Navi is technically $1,807 and if you don’t mind something old, you can still find used bikes under $1,000. Electric, gas, cruiser, or adventure, there’s a bike out there for everyone.

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My motorcycle wishlist is almost complete. I achieved my dream of owning Suzuki’s failed rotary motorcycle experiment. I also have my favorite Buell creations, a lovely Royal Enfield, and a stupidly big power cruiser to make me have all of the giggles. Now, I have two more two-wheeled fish I want to catch next year. I’d love to pick up the cheap and cute $3,299 CFMoto Papio SS and one day, a Honda CBX. The CFMoto is an easy one, but it’ll be hard to find a CBX for the sorts of prices I like paying for vehicles.

Aside from that, I need to get back into the cockpit of a Cessna.

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The flight lessons themselves aren’t too expensive, it’s combining them with renting the plane. My instructor would love for me to fly every week, but I don’t have the kind of dough required to spend $500 a week on lessons. Even $1,000 a month is a bit pricey. Thus, it’s been a while since I last sat in the cockpit of a plane. Pilots call this getting “rusty” and in terms of rust, I’m probably one of the cars David left in Michigan. So, the next time I fly, I’ll be flying to get back to where I used to be before I can advance forward.

There are also so many other vehicles I’d love to buy or at least drive. I want to get into the engineer position of more locomotives and boats sound like a ton of fun, too. If someone gave me a stupid amount of money, I might even buy a Kenworth T2000. Do I need one? No, but look at that design!

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Here’s where I turn things to you. There’s a whole world of vehicles out there that aren’t just cars. Getting on a motorcycle is easy. I would recommend taking a Motorcycle Safety Foundation class first. This will not only teach you how to ride safe but also give you an idea if riding is even for you. You can also learn how to command a boat or fly a plane. In this scenario, you have all of the money you need to do that!

So, are you going to buy a boat, train, plane, or motorcycle? Maybe you’ll buy something else, like a mining truck, submarine, or a mobile crane?

Top graphic images, clockwise from upper left: Honda Grom (Honda); Bede BD-5 (Andi Siebenhofer/public domain); Kawasaki Versys 1000 (Kawasaki); Rutan VariEze (Stephen Kearney/Wikimedia Commons); Yamaha AR195 (Yamaha); Handsome Stock Fella (Cookie Studio/Stock.Adobe.com); Seahunter 39 Tournament (Seahunter)

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Myk El
Myk El
9 months ago

If it’s just covering the purchase price and not ongoing maintenance, I’ll take a motorcycle or something similar. If it covers maintenance, plane.

StLOrca
StLOrca
9 months ago

If it’s anything, then I start with a delicious Streamline Moderne locomotive:
https://i.imgur.com/2oWCuf0.jpeg

And then get in my ultrasexy and drive off into the sunset:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/1939_Delahaye_Type_165_Figoni_%26_Falaschi.jpg/800px-1939_Delahaye_Type_165_Figoni_%26_Falaschi.jpg

Douglas Lain
Douglas Lain
9 months ago

Ye Olde Traction Engine.

InTheBackround
InTheBackround
9 months ago

Only interested in the motorcycle: 1982 Honda CB1100R
Honda’s first “homologation special” street legal production racebike. I already have the 750f, 900f, and 1100f i just need the R damn it
https://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/honda/archive-1982-honda-cb1100r.html

Pneumatic Tool
Pneumatic Tool
9 months ago

Boat, but I have relatively simple tastes – something like a Wellcraft V-20 steplift or a Grady White Tournament 19. These are ostensibly fishing boats (outboard, trailerable, not overly complicated, no expensive finishes) that have a traditional seating layout but with a very open cockpit. Simple is good.

Bill Garcia
Bill Garcia
9 months ago

I’d take a chinook or a crane chopper – would use it to get past traffic and be able to take my Jeep and my whole garage with me wherever I go!

Adela
Adela
9 months ago

Like electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, Lithium-ion technology is positioned as the technology of choice for marine vehicle traction. lithium marine battery are now able to replace the use of diesel fuel, allowing ship operators to meet emission restrictions and cost reduction targets.
https://www.lithium-battery-factory.com/marine-lithium-batteries-applications/

Spoons Are Not Forks
Spoons Are Not Forks
9 months ago

Grumman Albatross flying boat that has been converted into RV living. It will need storage to fit two Kawasaki KLX300SMs that also have dirt wheel set ups.

I guess since I have this set up, I will now have to get all the certifications to fly the damn thing, oh darn…

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