Joe: Costs of Project DeathMonkey

Being a hero is easy and cheap only if you happen to run into an event where one is needed and you manage to live through it. Acquiring heroic status by other means isn't that cheap. Since our plan is to get closer to this noble goal by driving our Honda Monkey mopeds from Helsinki to Gibraltar, it is essential to give a thought for the expenses in such a project.

Between Helsinki and Gibraltar is 3500km and one sea. To do the distance everyone involved needs a moped. MC DeathMonkey needs also a car, which is for camping equipment, spare parts, members who've either lost their mopeds or simply too drunk to ride them and additional beer. To cross the sea we'll need a ferry. Best option is to cross over from Hanko (Finland) to Rostock (Germany) by Superfast Ferries line.

My estimation what it'll cost to get to Gibraltar, send the moped back with the car and buy a plane ticket back:

Moped 500€
Car 200€ divided between participants. If 5, 40€ each
Repairs 150€
Ferry 50€ each
Gasolin 75€ (2l/100km?)
Gasolin for car 455€, divided between participants. If 5, ~90€ each
there and back (7l/100km, 6500km, 1€/l)
Food and 160€ (20€/day, 8 days. 450km/day)
Accommodation
Flight home 120€
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Altogether 1185€

By selling moped you'll get back about the same you paid for it.

Therefore the true cost without any sponsoring or financial support would be 685€.

Of course there are other expenses like leather vests and appropriate helmets, but the trip isn't going to be really expensive.

Joe
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El Presidente
MC DeathMonkey Finland

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