Well you say that my aim is to sell mine in 20 odd years time and I am doing it as a investment not expecting to get rich but it’s a good hobby and hopefully they double in money along the way?? I don’t even look at barn finds etc etc I have restored bikes in the past it’s a mugs game endless pit of money and you never get that back. Good low mile bikes is the way but there’s a lot of people reckon there bikes are low miles and mint but they ain’t what I call mint.
Yep, finding this with the little aprilias. When we have to pay way over the odds for minor fixings etc, it does take the gloss off a profit. Still, there's also the feat of accomplishment.
Same boat with my 999 I just (nearly) finished. Got her really "cheap" and I've had a lolovely time sorting her but if I add up the £££ even ignoring all my labor it would have been cheaper to buy a "mint" one. But where is the fun in that.
I get fun just stripping them right back and deep cleaning them and just replacing the odd corroded nut and bolt and then sit back and look at them and then the real fun riding them
With apologies for derailing @Mattie660 's thread, here's as reasonable example, and still 21 hours to go: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19283187...=I192831871993.N36.S1.R1.TR2&autorefresh=true
and another barn find: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/aprilia-...c:g:4f8AAOSwxXJcdE4V:rk:4:pf:1&frcectupt=true I might be a goer on this. Think of it as 'specialisation'
Gobsmacked at these low mileages, Sold my 2000 929 in 2003 with 95K on it, and it had never had a shim check from the day it was made, bullet proof bikes.
I got caught in that trap importing a bike from the IOM, insurer refused to issue a certificate until it had a UK reg, DVLA would not register it until it was insured. Go work that out!!! Finally insurer cracked and agreed 2 weeks, and if it was not UK reg by then, insurance would lapse.
Thanks @Kentblade . Yes, logistically for one with no experience in these matters and no knowledge of loopholes and shortcuts it is a no-goer for me. Seller has been advised, but he does have other interested parties. For a dealer or 'barn find specialist' these hurdles would be ordinary procedure. I'm also stunned by some of the low mileages. There must be quite a few owners who simply use their bikes as an ornament. However, as I've said before: It's better than looking at Ikea.
Ignorance is bliss Nige, I just flew over there, bought it and rode it onto the ferry, rode it home, then phoned the insurers. Chances of being pulled when you have a non UK plate on are slightly higher than Spurs actually winning something, so it’s almost gold plated yer not getting stopped.
Okay, okay. So I have to widen my widen my 'nerve' parameters! Why the eye roll?. Don't you read that figure and say to yourself WTF? that can't be right? And then think, 'Ooh, I might check that.' And you do, and then you look at the pic with the speedo and see that the odometer reads 191098 but don't have the rationale to realise that the final figure is a 'tenth mile' which means that the true mileage is actually 19,109 miles. Takes all sorts I suppose.
Nigelrb there is a lot of bikes out there with very low miles but it’s finding the ones that are true miles, have a look on gumtree at my 08 superduke R 1500 genuine miles the first owner covered 800 in 10 years ha ha
It is not unusual to find low mileage bikes here in the Channel Islands - distances are small. Also many of us had different licencing laws to the UK, and we had proper 100cc at 14 years old and unlimited at 16. Lots of people grew up with experience of riding bikes and bought nice ones as they got older - for the love of it. If you look in the first picture - in the background you will be able to make out two more local bikes - a 1098 and a pristine condition GT750 - that only come out when it is sunny
Gee, even I couldn't restrict myself that much! Was pleased that my VF1000R had only 9,000 on it and the MV 7000. Not many more added to them now, but I do get out and enjoy them. Think I'll just hold back now until the Triumph Daytona 765 Moto 2 comes to light. I've given up on a new V4 Honda.
Agreed, when I bought my NC30 about 5 years ago, the guy had been trying to sell for a year, in the end he had to get realistic with the price, and after some haggling that went over a couple of months we reached a meeting of minds. It is a decent one, with lots of history and very low miles documented, so was worth arguing over, but not at any price. In the end I then spent 50% of the purchase price again, replacing all the 22 year OEM consumable parts, which were great for a garage polisher to admire the originality, but I wanted to ride the bloody thing and stop when I wanted it to stop, go round corners when I wanted it to etc etc. Maybe just about cover my total outlay if I ever decide to sell it, but that ain't the reason for owning these bits of history anyway IMO.
