keep it or sell it......

[Teambwr47]

Having now got a new bike from Yamaha in the shape of a 2008 R6 its time to get on with building it and i wondered what the situation is with selling standard parts here in New Zealand.

I have no plans to ever run the bike on the road and in the UK when building a race bike from new its possible to add to the funds available by selling all the road gear as a package to a breaker.

Is this something that's easy/common to do here?

What sort of figure in NZ is a complete bodykit and all the road kit such as lights/pegs/bars etc likely to raise?

[kickingzebra]

just go to a friendly yamaha dealer that you are not familiare with, and get pricing on all aforementioned parts, then cut off a friendly 15 per cent or so, and voila, my eyecrometer (which has a suzuki bias mind) would seem to think 3500 or maybe a tadge more.
Definitly worthwhile with a newer bike, but then second hand race bikes don't always sell so well here, so many guys carry the parts over.

[breakaway]

DON'T take it to a wrecker and sell it as a 'package'. You will lose heaps of money. Try to sell privately (see www.trademe.co.nz)

[ArcherWC]

I would think that you will lose more than you will make at the other end when you go to sell the bike without road gear

[sugilite]

Archer is right, it is a complete prick to get good money for a race only bike and no road gear in NZ

[Teambwr47]

Its a toss up between the value paid for the bike in the first place (when i have to do so) and what can be raised against the sale cost as a race bike i guess.

With 10K+ needed to kit it out for racing the money in the road kit, if its even saleable, is attractive in the short term.

Different country, smaller market etc.....

In the UK you used to just ring around a load of breakers and sell the lot as a package. Can't find many breakers here even before trying to sell kit to them.....:eek5:

The bike is not registered here and i wasn't going to bother but may have to rethink that.....

[quallman1234]

Its a toss up between the value paid for the bike in the first place (when i have to do so) and what can be raised against the sale cost as a race bike i guess.

With 10K+ needed to kit it out for racing the money in the road kit, if its even saleable, is attractive in the short term.

Different country, smaller market etc.....

In the UK you used to just ring around a load of breakers and sell the lot as a package. Can't find many breakers here even before trying to sell kit to them.....:eek5:

The bike is not registered here and i wasn't going to bother but may have to rethink that.....

Maybe you could send it back to the motherland and sell it too one of your old breaker mates there? Could be a goodie with the current exchange and shouldn't be too much moneys for shipping.

[Teambwr47]

Maybe you could send it back to the motherland and sell it too one of your old breaker mates there? Could be a goodie with the current exchange and shouldn't be too much moneys for shipping.


The 'motherland' is to expensive to ship to.........

Anyways the 'motherland' is not where life is at for us, its NZ all the way now, so got to get used to doing stuff here and if that means converting the bike back to a road in 18 months time then so be it.