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Aelk799

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2001 CBR f4i. Less than 10,000 Kms.

I’ve been on autotrader on kijiji and it’s tough to find comparables given the low mileage. All original.

Obviously don’t ride it much and I think it’s time to let it go.

Do older bikes ever start to increase in value? A 20 year old f4i with less then 10k on it. Does these ver reach collector status?

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18 years old ? IF it passes a cert and doesn't look like its been dragged behind a truck maybe $1500-2000
 
Aelk799 said:
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Yes once they become very old, extremely rare and the economy is booming.
Is there such a thing as a motorcycle collector? I never met one, they talk about collectors all the time on American Pickers and Pawn Stars but I'm pretty sure they don't really exist and if they did imho they would be shopping for something pre-war like a Ariel square 4 or a Manx Norton.
 
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nothing particularly notable about that bike
low km and good cond make it worth maybe 500 more than the others on kijiji
 
Sadly low km means almost nothing on a 20 yo bike. Like others, I cant see it being collectable anytime soon. There were tons available and many are parked somewhere with low mileage.

Honestly, a sport bike is a hard sale now due to insurance rates, I'd price it in line with similar bikes and hope the low mileage makes yours more attractive to a buyer. If you price high to account for lower mileage, you probably wont get any interest.
 
There are about 4,000 sport bike ads on Kijiji although some ads are for parts. The season has peaked and the buyers are going to be bargain shopping. Insurance rates for the bike will kill many possible deals. The bike probably looks and runs like new but depreciation will take its toll.

The selling price can be heartbreaking.
 
It really is a shame that older bikes, even ones in good shape, don't get much love.

As an aside, I sometimes wonder how a bike is ridden so little as to accumulate just 10K kms in ~18 years. That's an average of just 550 kms/year. That machine just sat around not doing much for ages...
 
There are collectors, I go to the Vegas vintage auction every January, about 4-500 bikes change hands and they collect everything from turn of the last century to 2000's product. BUT that doesn't mean big dollars all the time, lots sell in the 2,000-3,000 buck range. There is a lid for every pot.
 
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There are collectors, I go to the Vegas vintage auction every January, about 4-500 bikes change hands and they collect everything from turn of the last century to 2000's product. BUT that doesn't mean big dollars all the time, lots sell in the 2,000-3,000 buck range. There is a lid for every pot.
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I've seen Harleys go on the Mecum auctions for the price of the pipes and a tune-up. There is an oversupply of most things except land. And they can still make more things.
 
thats where the collector market is really hard to predict. 70's sportsters are essentially 'free' , anything HD from the 50's back gets a good dollar, yet 10 years ago the AMF logo on a bike was the kiss of death, now its considered historic.
My 73 RD350 sold three years ago for 5 times what it cost new . But the guy really wanted it and i was done with it. Doesnt always work ,like that.
 
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