How much is this bike worth?

[shereen]

Specifically how much is it worth, not how much you would be willing to pay for it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271043725243?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

[P.]

Well for a 1990 bike that minimal parts are standard...

I know you want its actual worth, but for me, for a road bike its too much as it is, imagine declaring all of that.

It probably is worth a fair bit, not far off its current price, but as a collectors item, I think the mods have killed that value, so now its mainly race value.

That is all my opinion though.. someone can quite happily correct me.

[nowhere.elysium]

In terms of perceived value? Less than the sweat from my arsecrack.

In terms of technical value, probably around £1200-1500. I wouldn't pay more than that for a twenty-year-old 400, even if it was in sterling condition, unless it was a NOS discovery, or something.
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[neatbik]

Its not worth a fraction of what he has spent.
At the end of the day its a tarted up old 400. Yes, it looks nice and i'm sure is fun to ride.

I guess i could see why someone would buy it for 2k, but not for any more.
If the bloke wants his 9k back then he is best off breaking it (and even then not see much)

[Suntan Sid]

Prices, second hand, for a, relatively, standard example vary between 1k & 4k.
For someone who's interested in that sort of bike, it's got all the bits they'd be wanting to add to it.
IMO it's worth about 4 - 5k, if the engines good!
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[nowhere.elysium]

So let me get this straight - a 20 year old bike that's got nearly 30k on the clocks, and a ton of bolt-on crap is actually likely to be sold for that much money? Jesus. I ought to get an old VFR, attach magnets, and ride it through Halford's chav aisle.

Are we completely overlooking the fact that a) it's modelled on a bike that's from a completely different design era to the bike it's been built upon, and b) it's been used as a trackslag? He can drop as much as he wants on making it pretty on the outside, but I wouldn't give him tuppence unless he could prove that the engine's been taken care of too.

It's a triumph of style over substance, and I don't really rate the style, in truth. Making a 400cc V4 look like a 990cc V5 just says that the guy's into looks more than anything. What's wrong with just having a 400 that looks like a 400, as opposed to dressing it up to look like a race bike?

I still stand by my statement that it's not worth anywhere near 4-5k. Sorry Sid, I just disagree with you completely there, and until I see some proof that there's been serious engine work done to it, I'll continue to disagree with you. A couple of plug-in modules does not a tuned engine make.
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[Vincent]

£3 big ones.........absolute tops. That's only if you're thinking of putting something like that together anyway. True value is probably nearer £2,200. That's why I keep the original parts to put back on when I sell a bike and sell the aftermarket goodies separately - it's what the seller should do too really.
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[Fisty]

He didnt pay £200 for the forks. I sold them to him.

As for the bike, in parts I imagine its worth 5-6K. As a whole, 2k tops.
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[Matt-]

£2000 in my eye's it done a fair amount of track day mile's as well, most prob's been abused all of it's life, i could imagine it's had £5 worth of part's on it, it's worth what someone want's to pay for it
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[P.]

Oooh its Maidstone too.

That won't be around for long. *Rings Pikey Shaun*

[chris-red]

It's a 30k mile bike which has spent the last 2k being ragged around a track. No chance it's worth much more than 2k. A tidy 200? 600 could be had for that and would rape it round a track.
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[nowhere.elysium]

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[Shaft]

[lihp]

because modifications makes a bike niche, I want an unfettled one, so I can modify it.

My questions will be why?

It's a pretty cool bike tbh, I like it. BUT, not what I would be after, when buying a VFR400, if I was after a VFR400, I would want one that looked like it.

The guy only paid £1500 for the bike, and won't likely get much more than that.

Looking through his parts he has listed, there are not many performance modifications on there, as previously said, he has bolted aftermarket shiney bits on, it is no more than a VFR400 standard, in a fancy dress.

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[Shaft]

[lihp]

Look through his feedback,

Samco hose kit he lists at £94
NC30 Samco Hose Kit (#270716486908) £60.00

VFR Brake discs he says are £170
Honda NC30 VFR 400 Brake Discs (#270572530728) £30.00

ZXR front forks? £200
Honda NC30 Front Forks (#270576639286) £100.00

Brake Calipers £120?
Honda NC30 VFR 400 Brake callipers (#270576638746) £51.10

Fairings, £875?
Honda VFR400 NC30 Fairings & Seat Unit (#270398291723) £381.00



How much is it worth to you now Shereen, from a dodgy seller?

[Suntan Sid]

Well I looked at Autotrader.

There is one VFR priced a couple of hundred quid more than this one, but I'm not sure of the model so I ignored it:-

Here

The lowest was £999

The bike in question has had a fair wedge thrown at it, all we have to go on is the description in the ad. Assuming you don't throw that much money at an old nail, and take the seller at his word, (bearing in mind none of us have seen the bike in the flesh), I think it would be reasonable to expect the motor not to be garbage.
Overall, it can't be a total basket case as it does have a daytime MOT.
I've never done a track day, but if I did, I'd make sure the bike was mechanically the best I could make it.

The dash, quickshift, exhausts, shock, radiator and tyre warmers come to just over 3k, according to the seller, if they're in good nick you could sell them on at 30% of the new price, easily.

If all the goodies, he's added, improve the bike, surely they must add value.
For someone who wants that sort of bike, all the ball ache of sorting it has already been done.

Engines can be rebuilt, if it's not up to scratch you knock off the required £'s, which I mentioned originally.

As with anything, it is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

Bidding is already over 2k!

If you bought it for 4k, used it for a year, then broke it I don't think you'd lose any money, infact I think you'd make a profit.

You shouldn't forget that, even in these austere times, there are people who just have "loadsamoney" to throw away, on mere whimsies! Let's face it he's spent over 1700 on the fairings and paint for a track bike FFS!
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