Bike prices

[dransy]

What's going on with the bike prices . Is there such a thing as bargain anymore ?

I sold my bike last August as I don't have a garage anymore . I've got the knack now with all this nice weather so thought I'd get myself a cheap hack to pootle about on this summer .

Problem is the prices are through the roof . Even absaloute wrecks that are non runners your looking at a grand . I got rid of my gsx750 inazuma with fresh mot for £600 🤔🤔
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[jeffyjeff]

I think it's a seasonal thing. In October, prices will drop. Now is not the time of year to be looking for bargains. Just my observation.
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[kgm]

Even approaching autumn/winter I rarely see many bargains nowadays

[spottedtango]

I think it’s a mixture of inflation, nostagia and people have got used to the internet (eBay).

Everyone and their gran thinks their bike is worth something.

“It’s an easy fix but I just haven’t got round to it”

Anything from the 80s regardless of how bad it was is now considered a classic.

Because rose tinted glasses. Sunny days spent pushing heaps of old shite back to the house doesn’t seem so bad anymore.

[xX-Alex-Xx]

Buy in autumn/winter and sell in spring/summer. Only natural prices are high when the weather is blazing.
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[Fisty]

There are plenty of bargains, you just need to be willing to travel and have cash at the ready.
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[Polarbear]

Boat prices are mad.
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[NJD]

Given the current situation I doubt dealers selling used bikes are willing to budge on price just to give them the best chance of keeping them afloat. I spoke to my local shop recently and he said at a period where they should be busy the workshop was only getting trickles in comparison to last year.

On the whole I'd say you're in the best position given you don't have one to get rid of, so perhaps search eBay for "lowest price AND p&p" and then see what comes up for the model you want.

Or facebook marketplace (if you're brave and can beat away the tards) or auto-trader. I found a few on both that weren't listed via eBay.

May find more private sellers, mind, given some may be getting rid to bring in a bit of cash flow.
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[arry]

Few days ago I test rode an MV Agusta Brutale 990R.

It was up for sale at £5499. When I looked through the paperwork it was sold at a dealership in 2016 for.....£5499. 4 years newer, with less miles, and a more complete service history.

Since I've been looking for bikes I was looking at a Speed Triple. Last of the round eye bikes up for £5k. I test rode one in 2009 (ish, I think it was 09) and very nearly bought it - it would have cost me £6,200. How can it be 10 years later that it would have only depreciated a grand FFS.

[Ayrton]

[Tdibs]

Facebook marketplace is where the real deals are.

Have to wade through a lot of dodgy shit and retards but thats where the realistic prices are if you are looking for something under 1.5k
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[wr6133]

The Sub £1k bargains have been thin on the ground for a while. They still exist but you mostly need to either know someone who knows someone who wants to sell something or get lucky on Facebook.

I suspect most of them are now cheap commuter bikes in Eastern Europe. I know in the past many of my perfectly usable but fucked looking old nails ended up in the back of vans heading to Poland. Worse the £ is against the Euro the more this happens, thanks to Brexit the pound has not been the strongest.

I think the bargains are up around £2k now. You can get tidy early 2000's litre bikes around that number. Proper superbikes without all the electronic crap for under £2k. It's crazy amounts of speed for the money.

[linuxyeti]

Also, I think there's going to be, at least a short term bump in popularity, go back to work, avoid public transport, every man and his dog will try to use the car, parking will be a ballache, what better substitution than a bike, easier to park. Coupled with this, have you seen the weather lately? It makes biking even more appealing, especially to the less experienced, wait until we have a few days of rain, the prices will be washed down, just like incy wincy spider
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[A100man]

Stuff I'm into seems cheap enough.. Nice YZF 750s for 2k ish OTR..
and plenty of project stuff for under a grand provided you're not too picky.

That's not to say some thng haven't gone nuts. 5-6 years ago you could pick up a roadworthy GT250 for 5-600 quid, same thing now easy 2k.
Avoid 2Ts and cafe fodder and you should be OK.

No idea about Facebook, I despise its very existence a little bit more each day.
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[pepperami]

[pepperami]

[ThunderGuts]

Yet I ended up selling my ER5 which was in good order with new-ish tyres for £350 (trade in)! It was a previous (cosmetic) write off so nobody wanted it, but it was perfectly OK as a basic bike. Clean-history ones are selling for north of £1k, sometimes closer to £2k (which is ridiculous for what they are). I probably could have got closer to the £700 or so I paid for it originally if I held out on a private sale, but I wanted to get it out of the garage to make way for the new bike.
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[garth]

It's great isn't it. I've sold two bikes in the last week and I'm well over a grand up in profit from this time last year. I didn't even do any work to them, and both MOTs lapsed.
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[evilzed]

It also doesn't help that mid range bikes like the Z650 for example which is basically an ER6 (with slightly less power) are priced at £6.5-7k+ ain't great, when I got my license in 2013 I remember seeing GSXR 1000s new on sale for about £8-9k