Query on bike value
Question - what's a 2002 Kawasaki ZX636A1 with 26,000k painted in black (professionally done, but not factory colour) worth? Supplied with clean and shiney factory numberplate mounts.
I told myself when I started riding motorbikes that they were a toy. Although I use mine for commuting, it is the fun factor that makes me do it. I have perfectly good public transport available to me. And in keeping with the toy theme, I vowed that if the money ever got tight, the toy would go.
Well I've just broken up with my partner. And since it's my house, my kid, and my furniture I keep the lion share of the bills. She gets the freehold stationwagon, I get the impractical little 2-seater convertible with finance on it, and the even more impractical 636 (also financed). At least the Sentra with 405,000k on the clock doesn't have any finance owing on it's $260 purchase price. All quite fair IMO, since I also keep the $100k my house has gone up by in the three years we've been together. But equity and cashflow are not one and the same.
The MX-5 is going. No ifs buts or maybes. And so is the Sentra. Now I can reorganise things and fit a $5k more suitable car into the equation, and keep the bike. But by keeping the bike that means I'm cutting into the "what if" cash, the stuff you can never budget for but always need when you have other responsibilities.
So I think it is time to honour my word... the toy must go. So how much should I expect to sell it for?
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