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Looks like to me quite a few used dirt bikes have hit the market, Houston Texas area. Maybe for sale with an asking price above current market. I’m always poking around in the event I see something I want to go along with the two in the garage I seldom ride. My gut tells me people are trying to get rid of dirt bikes they may have paid a premium for a while back. Either trying to dump wanting something new or inflation motivation. My guess the latter.
I looked at a used YZ 250 a week or so back and would have bought it but concerned it had radical porting for lack of better terms. He wasn’t asking anything crazy. He might have been a couple of hundred bucks high. The read I got was it had been for sale for a month and I might have been the only one to look at it so far. I may even check back with him and buy it. Just depends on what world I wake up in next week.
I look at the 2 stroke YZ’s on face book market place and the same ones have been on there for a good while. Unless someone is hurting for money in most cases they will keep something as opposed to taking a hit.
My gut also tells me when the market was hot in the past the only thing available may have been Suzuki RMZ’s. I see some used 4-5 year old RMZ’s with a stupid high price.
I’m not going to say a guy can buy 350 KTM off the floor, but the shops around me had 250 and 450 KTM, Kawasaki and Hondas a few weeks back on the show room floor. So scarcity of new wouldn’t see to me a problem. Markers can vary depending on what part of the country.
Figured this would be an interesting topic to discuss. Thoughts comments please.
Thanks Billy
I looked at a used YZ 250 a week or so back and would have bought it but concerned it had radical porting for lack of better terms. He wasn’t asking anything crazy. He might have been a couple of hundred bucks high. The read I got was it had been for sale for a month and I might have been the only one to look at it so far. I may even check back with him and buy it. Just depends on what world I wake up in next week.
I look at the 2 stroke YZ’s on face book market place and the same ones have been on there for a good while. Unless someone is hurting for money in most cases they will keep something as opposed to taking a hit.
My gut also tells me when the market was hot in the past the only thing available may have been Suzuki RMZ’s. I see some used 4-5 year old RMZ’s with a stupid high price.
I’m not going to say a guy can buy 350 KTM off the floor, but the shops around me had 250 and 450 KTM, Kawasaki and Hondas a few weeks back on the show room floor. So scarcity of new wouldn’t see to me a problem. Markers can vary depending on what part of the country.
Figured this would be an interesting topic to discuss. Thoughts comments please.
Thanks Billy
The Shop
This is a lesson I have learned and will not repeat.
I also am still seeing many used bikes still priced above what a new one would cost or right at it.
You hear it from people in real estate, something is only worth what you can get for it. Once that soaks in with the market used prices come even further down. One thing about life, it never stays the same.
I may give the guy a call and see if he still has it. I may have been over thinking it. Even if I wasn’t, it’s not like stock YZ cylinders can’t be bought right.
I’d pay 45 to buy it all back. Oh well hindsight’s 20/20
I'm waiting for one of the new IRS agents to get assigned to me and charge me an hourly rate for breathing.
The problem I see for sellers on the horizon is this: there are a lot of units that were purchased in 2020-2021 which will all be competing with one another for fewer buyers. That scenario is just beginning, and it will drive prices down. Any additional recession factors will only make the buyer pool smaller.
Pit Row
From a GSM of multiple HD stores.
So, these people that paid these $2k+ "fees" want to sell but their asking prices are more than i can get a new one with zero hours vs their well-warm 1-2 y/o bikes. The supply of new bikes is still an issue though.
Im currently waiting on a 23 husky 125 that i will pay msrp otd when it arrives. Some dealers just get it! I priced a couple 21 and 22 husky 125's but im not paying what they want. They would not budge. Plus, we kinda want the new efi, electric start 125.
On the flip side i should have sold my 2015 yz250 7-8 months ago for $4500-$5000. Guess ill just keep it now. I paid $2600 for it in August 2019! Man how times have changed but i fear its going to get nasty soon..
Looks like the housing market is going down also.
GG121 is right; bikes, A-Kit, trucks, plus boats, RVs, bicycles, ski equipment.... all that stuff that sold out in the summer/fall of '20 will be saturated on the used market at some point soon.
Guy was super cool and goes “we’re selling side by sides 15k above what their worth all day long. I haven’t had any dirtbike bike other than a Suzuki sit on the floor for more than a day….I don’t know where these people are getting their money from, but their money paid for my dream truck”
Really struck me that an average dude working at a dealership made enough money in a year that he bought that truck cash - that there was so much demand and price hiking that he was able to do that.
I can’t even imagine the deals that are going to come up in the next year or so….
In the meantime, I bought basket case FC250, TTR125, KTM 300XC and a good used KTM 250SXF. Pretty happy with my purchases, just not so happy with my sale (250SX).
I'm sure there are guys that did both ... sold too low during 2018-2019 and bought brand new bikes with all the fees during the peak.
young . ( 70’s- 80’s) . Just my take on it , you are certainly allowed to disagree.
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