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90% of the ones for sale round here are the same James, this time of year folks think they are still sitting on gold.
Give it a month or two, maybe three, when the weather starts getting cool or even cold and they want the spot in the garage for their car, and the market is gone cause no one else wants to store a bike all winter either and not get the fun of riding it for months first. Then the prices start dropping off quickly. I saw my fisrt XS11 in Craigslist for $1800 in mid September, I picked it up in November for $1000. If they waited until April or May, it might have sold for $2000.
Mind you, the ones waining away in a farm field or barn with lots of barnacles and corroded chrome will never sell for that much more in spring, but even those will cost less in late fall than they will in late summer.
That trick only works in the colder climates of course, for the areas of the country that never see snow or sleet, I would suspect prices do not vary as much.
And yes, we know, you do have the XJR, and we are jealous!!
Give it a month or two, maybe three, when the weather starts getting cool or even cold and they want the spot in the garage for their car, and the market is gone cause no one else wants to store a bike all winter either and not get the fun of riding it for months first. Then the prices start dropping off quickly. I saw my fisrt XS11 in Craigslist for $1800 in mid September, I picked it up in November for $1000. If they waited until April or May, it might have sold for $2000.
Mind you, the ones waining away in a farm field or barn with lots of barnacles and corroded chrome will never sell for that much more in spring, but even those will cost less in late fall than they will in late summer.
That trick only works in the colder climates of course, for the areas of the country that never see snow or sleet, I would suspect prices do not vary as much.
And yes, we know, you do have the XJR, and we are jealous!!
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