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Villopoto Practise Bike $20000 + tax
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I don't get it, other than suspension and some bling, it's stock, right? What is on that bike that makes it roughly $13,000 more than a new one?
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In 20 years someone will be building a Villopoto replica and searching for all those parts and will spend way more than $20k to do it.
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Is it me or do the prices on all those bikes seem excessive? Like 30-40% higher than market value
I guess if the title had RV’s name on it the practice bike might be worth the 20K, only to a hardcore fan that wants it for his living room
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Works suspension on that one.
But you can save some money and buy a KX100 for "only" $10,000. Or a bone stock KX250F that's been held wide open on the dyno for sound testing for the low, low price of only $6,500.
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If you look at the cost of the PC mods it looks like a decent deal. A kit stuff is like 6 grand? PC motor work could have the Carillo rod, trick piston, their valves and springs which may be a grand alone and the labor to port and flow the head. Probably close to 2 grand in the motor. Stock or aftermarket wheels that push $1500?
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That suspension is around 10k alone with the more expensive turquoise coating.
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That is a sweet bike however ---
2019 e-start yz250f ---- -----$8500.00
Dial suspension ---------$500.00
Clean/dialed vintage rm 250 --$4000.00
Cost to race/ride for a year ----$3000.00
Killer hard tail MTB --------------$4000.00
------------------------------------------$20,000.00
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I wonder if I would be faster on it. Probably not
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Man, full blown PC Kawi 450??? Thats about as bad ass of a 450 that money can buy for us normal guys. Looks like its loaded with everything and if I wanted a full blow race bike with the best of the best $20k would be totally worth it.
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The way I view this and I have given it a ton of thought over the years (since I spent some time at the PC shop) is that a guy like myself in my early to mid 40's a bike like this would be ideal for racing the old timers nationals, the vet series, etc.... it would last easily 5 years at a vet level and it probably cheaper than if you ended up buying a new 450 every 1-2 years. I went back and looked at it and looks like stock wheels/hubs which I was kind of surprised.
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Question I’d want answered is how many practice hours are on it? They mention it has an hour counter but no mention of the actual readout unless i missed it.
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If you put down $20000 for this, you wouldn't need to update the bike for 5 years atleast. Send it back to Mitch at 100 hours for a top end and timing chain then keep on sending it
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