Motorcycle vs car to operate cost?

So i daily drive a motorcycle. I usually buy a bike fro 1-2k dollars put a little work in it each year a few hundred an drive it. Then sell it after a few seasons for about what i paid. I'm looking at buying a older cars 80s early 90s an it seems to be an endless money pit. Pay 2-3 grand for a 80s car with high mileage then have to maintain them an insure them. I pay 240 a year liability for my 79 honda or id pay 140 a month for liability on a beater car. Should i just stick with riding bikes

The bike is probably way cheaper. If cost is the ONLY thing that matters, then keep riding.

Personally I drive a car the advantages are:
1. Safer (seat belts, airbags, steel cage around me, and bigger/ more visible to other drivers)
2. Dry warm commute on rainy mornings
3. Capacity for up to 4 passengers
4. Cargo space

A bike would be way cheaper, but I can afford the car and choose to spend more for those advantages.

Cars have more storage, safety features, protection from elements/seasons, room for passengers.
If you can live without that, keep the moto!

If you have the b***s to just ride than do that, have done it myself.
I have two vehicles now, my bike and my work truck, prefer my bike most of the time but NEED the truck for tool/material-hauling.
It's a toss-up, one or the other or both.

Stick to bikes. They've served you well so far.

I had my truck sent to Asian smelters as a crushed cube.
After deciding to ride year around beside the Salish Sea.
We differ on our pleasure picks. Go crush a tin can.

Motorcycles because you can get through traffic quicker and they are cheaper to run too.

Its usually much higher to ride. Unless you have a small 250/440 cc Honda with small tires and get 75 MPH going only 15 miles/day.

Motorcycles are like machine guns; a lotta fun, But, don't whine to me about ammo costs. You Knew it had a cyclic rate of 900 RPM when you Bought it.

My tires, I'm lucky if I can get one for $100. Easily up to $240 , Each, many don't last over 8,000 miles. My MPG varies from 30-47, I'm supposed to use premium ( $3.65/gal) I'm constantly refilling her 4.7 gallon tank with the 34 mile commute M-F, plus runs on weekends. And I use $$ synth oil, about $40 just for oil/filter for an oil change every 5,000. Not including primary oil. Dealer wants a Fortune for basic maintenance. Only a few shops in town will Touch a Harley. Like I have a Rolls or something. Now at only 30K, I'm told to inspect primary and timing chain. $200 for dealer to do it.

My car, if it didn't leak, could go 7500 on synthetic, gets 43-50 MPG freeway, takes regular, and has cheapest tires on earth that crack up from age before they wear out. Can go 50K on Michelins, as car is very light. Maintenance not too high; any shop will do it. Much competition. I do it myself. $14 for timing belt every 60K, Vee belts are very cheap.

My Corolla had 5 tyres and did 30 miles to the Gallon

my Triumph Tiger Cub had 2 tyres and did 100 miles to the Gallon

Used the Bike to work in the Dry and the car in the wet

Bikes are far cheaper road tax, petrol depending on size but for most of them, insurance is cheaper. On the downside expect a bike to break down more and need more repairs than a car, everything is more exposed to the elements.

You are paying too much for you 80's cars. They need to be under $1k. But even so there's no getting away from that liability around $1680 a year. If money is tight the bike option seems better just on that alone