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Originally Posted by Ed
Bit of a rant this.
As you'll know from my for sale ad, I'd like to sell my bike. But I'm coming up against ghost bikes - I mean bikes that have hardly been ridden. There are a few 675s similar age to mine, 2007/2008, done all of 3K miles!! I mean who the hell buys a motorbike just to leave it rotting in the p1ssing garage!!! I think mine isn't high at 14K, 3 years old on March 1, nothing like some peoples' mileage on here, but 3K miles - that's 1K per year, or an average of less than 20 miles a week!!! It's a joke!!!! Surely a bike NEEDS to be ridden, not just parked up where you get condensation and all sorts?????? So when I call a dealer, I get a sharp intake of breath and they say '14K, oh that's high'. NO IT BLOODY ISN'T!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm with you on this one.
When I bought my Versys I pretty much consigned it to the bin straight away, knowing it would do a load of miles and be worthless within 3 years. I'll get nothing for it at trade in time, so I might break it for spares when I'm done with it - it's worth more money like that.
If you're doing lots of miles you may as well write off what you pay for the bike if you're clocking up over 6K miles a year over a 3 year period. According to Glass's Guide, the average for a UK registered sports bike is just over 2K miles a year, which I find ridiculous. Blame the weekend warriors for that, they base their mileage estimates from the average mileages taken from used bikes in showrooms.