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You guys selling these things with 20-30 seems pointless to me you took that hit and lost the value. If I'm going to buy one that low hour it's going to be close enough in price to a new one that I'd just go new.
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I have always felt I should hold on to them and keep them in my barn.
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I’ll put 25-30 hours on a bike in our yearly vacation. On race weekends (off-road) it is a minimum of 2.5hrs run time during the day (almost double that for enduros depending on transfer sections),
It’s really just personal preference, how many hours you are comfortable between rebuilds (motor and suspension), how much you are willing to spend to make it easy, and how hard you are on bikes.
For me, that’s 50-60 hours. I have Enzo do the suspension at 30. I put in a clutch when it needs it. Good resale and I typically keep the bike 1 to 2 years, as I don’t ride a ton, so I’m not always swapping out bikes. At my age, I’ll leave the motor rebuilds to someone else and just start fresh. Note that I only ride motocross, and a lot of sand.
Pit Row
If you value money the most, then ride that bike as long as the frame is good. Just be prepared to have something break on the bike pretty regularly once you reach a certain point. Or be prepared for some long hours in the garage overhauling the bike every 75-100 hours.
If it's time, then sell once you get to the 80 hour range and buy a new one.
I personally value time more. I have 2 little kids and a wife that I'd rather spend time with when I'm not riding instead of wrenching in the garage until late at night. Everyone is different, though.
All my others were generally buying something new, but not necessarily different.
To spend thousands on suspension, exhaust, and other mods, economically, it just doesn't make sense to switch bikes as often since you can't recoup the price of the mods at resale....you'd be out thousands every time you switched bikes, so you'd have to keep them longer to "get your moneys worth".
But riding a bike stock, or mostly stock, getting a new bike every other year, or about 100 hours, or so makes more economic sense...because for about the price to pay a shop to do all the major maintenance (top end, valves, clutch, bearings, etc.) you could sell the old bike and take that cash and buy a new one...so why not buy a new one?
Again...that's from an economics perspective...I've got a buddy that buys a new bike every year-well about every 100 hours, which is about what he rides every year-(usually a KTM 350...he's on the Kalib Russel edition now)...buys a new bike, puts in a $1100 rekluse clutch, cone valves, trax shock, titanium exhaust, flex bars, gpr stabilizer, a ton of hard parts (armor), bibs, IMS tank, plus some fancy seat and few other things...and he looses that money every time he sells his bike. But for him, its not an economics decision (he has the money) he just doesn't like repairing bikes, and likes riding new ones, so he gets rid of them before they start to break.
30 hours?
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