Every one knows that racing motorbikes isn?t that cheap a hobby. Contrary to popular misconception, the best things in life aren?t actually free. Even making love to beautiful woman can quite often end up costing you an arm and a leg. So as you might imagine, if you want to race at the Isle of Man TT, you?re going to have to throw a few quid at the job. Exactly how much depends on who you are. There are a few lads that?ll come away from there with a fat stack of cash. But if you?re an average ordinary everyday kid like me (or him from Def Leppard), you won?t. This is how much it’ll cost for a normal person to race at the Isle of Man TT.

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Whether you go down the Supertwin (Lightweight), Supersport, Superstock or Superbike route, the cost of buying yourself a bike to race at the TT is probably going to be the biggest single ?investment? in the whole project. Then again, if you?re considering making your TT debut, you?ve probably already got a race bike of some description. Let?s assume you haven?t, and you?ve got to buy one.
You could pick up a pre raced Supertwin, Supersport or Superstock bike for about £15k, that?d be capable of doing the job, even if it wasn?t massively competitive. You could spend a hell of a lot more on one too, if you wanted to.

If you did want to, you could buy (or build) a superbike. You?d want to budget a minimum of £50k for that though. But realistically you don?t need a superbike; unless you think you?re going t...