By Allen's estimation - if you have to put $1500 into it (not an
unbelievable number these days) and thats about what its worth - unless
she's willing to give it to you, I wouldn't pay too much for it.
Good call Allen on the brakes - I hadn't thought that far.
-Joey
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** I'd pay $500 tops for it if it was in nice but neglected state with a
> clean title, but only if it runs. But Joey is right a grand would be in
> order to get it in a condition I would require before I'd trust it with my
> life. I would also add to that list Brakes and lines, chain and sprockets,
> air/oil filters and oil change. I'd guess in ready to ride condition the
> bike is maybe worth $1500 here in the DC area.
>
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> *From: * Joey Kelley <[email protected]>
> *Sender: * [email protected]
> *Date: *Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:20:08 -0400
> *To: *<[email protected]>
> *ReplyTo: * [email protected]
> *Subject: *Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Tricks of buying new?
>
> In the words of my Dad - "Its worth whatever you can get someone to pay for
> it."
> 10K and 10 years w/o moving basically means you'll be doing a
> lot of catchup maintenance - probably carb cleaning and a tank flush at the
> minimum.
> Oh - tires - after that long she needs tires. Battery too -
> you're looking at sinking the better part of a grand in it in tires battery
> - fork seals should be looked at / replaced.... Yeah you wouldn't want to
> pay much for that IMHO.
> -Joey
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ** Lady at work has a 1975 CB500 that hasn't been used for more than 10
>> years with 10K miles. Anyone know what it's worth?
>>
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>> *From: * "Allen Thomas" <[email protected]>
>> *Sender: * [email protected]
>> *Date: *Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:06:13 +0000
>> *To: *Nightwawk Lovers<[email protected]>
>> *ReplyTo: * [email protected]
>> *Subject: *Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Tricks of buying new?
>>
>> Don't know for sure but I started looking at bikes around christmas and
>> dealers had the new ninja 1000 but the new FZ8 was not around till march.
>>
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>> *From: * Kurt Nolte <[email protected]>
>> *Sender: * [email protected]
>> *Date: *Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:45:17 -0600
>> *To: *<[email protected]>
>> *ReplyTo: * [email protected]
>> *Subject: *Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Tricks of buying new?
>>
>> Okay, so I know when car models roll out each year, but when do new model
>> year bikes roll out, since the 'season' is typically late spring to early
>> fall?
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> On Jun 28, 2011 2:24 PM, "surfswab" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It's pretty much the same song-and-dance as with car dealers. You
>> make an offer, the salesman huddles with his boss, comes back with a
>> (probly underwhelming) counter-offer. You make a counter-counter
>> offer, again the huddle and the return with a slightly-sweetened
>> counter-counter-counter offer ("Okay, we can waive the setup fee and
>> throw in a helmet").
>>
>> And like that, until you sign or walk.
>>
>> You could probly do better with an out-of-the-way high volume dealer
>> like this one:
>>
>> http://www.lakehillmotors.com
>>
>> They're in Corinth, MS and they only sell Hondas and Yamahas, but
>> several acquaintances of mine have gotten deals with several hundred
>> bucks off MSRP.
>>
>> I notice they're offering the slow-moving DN-01 for almost half MSRP.
>> That's about as dramatic a discount as I've seen, though, so that bike
>> must be a real dog, sales-wise.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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