Extortion?

[R6_kid:Me]

Bwahahahahaha, you beet me to it, ya prick!

You've met/seen her ya tosser!

[MIXONE]

Not with you on that one. In the UK, secondhand bikes are throwaway prices. I sold my old bike worth no more than $2500 equivelent for $5500 in NZ. It was 30% more than I paid for it 4 years ago.

I doubt anywhere in the developed world has higher secondhand bike or car prices than NZ.

Wrong.Lots of cars in NZ are cheaper then the UK.Example,my old Nissan stagea was worth around 5 to 6 thousand squid in the UK.I paid $5000 here.

[White trash]

You've met/seen her ya tosser!

I've "seen" her, but as I remember, she could have been any random sheila as you, ya rude bastard, neglected to introduce the poor girl to anyone.

[ManDownUnder]

It is extorsion if they have a gun to your head demanding you pay it or die...

If you are free to walk away without buying it I believe that's called the free market.

[Grub]

Damn I want one though....

Really? I rode one for a night and it was a piece of shit. The seat was so hard, along with the suspension, that my nuts just kept bouncing into the tank. The bike is so short that your arms go straight down and your hands feel like they're next to your hip bones.

There's just no way you can take a bike like that out for a long ride. Even the guy who owned it agreed. Yesterday we went from Welly to Palmerston and back, the day before we went to Wanganui and back - just because we could and it was fun and comfortable. An R6 couldn't deliver that.

Yep, they go, ferk they go. But is that it? Not for me it isn't anyway.

[Swoop]

It is extorsion if they have a gun to your head demanding you pay it or die...

If you are free to walk away without buying it I believe that's called the free market.

Much like Red Baron. You are free to walk away at any time.

[R6_kid:Me]

I've "seen" her, but as I remember, she could have been any random sheila as you, ya rude bastard, neglected to introduce the poor girl to anyone.

fair call, she wasn't my girlfriend at the time, but i do make the point of introducing her now.

[clint640]

I have a new ABS Tiger on its way over from the USA. All in all I estimate I have saved somewhere between $5-6k. At 70c to the US$ I wouldn't have bothered but as I got almost 81c to the US$, I couln't resist. I will post up the actual figures in a couple of weeks.

Yep with the way the $ is it's a good option - the new version of my bike, the 690 Enduro, is reputedly going on sale for US$8500, (or NZ$10.5K @ 81c) whereas over here I've been told $17K. So If I decide to buy one I might as well fly over there & get it, spend a few weeks touring around then ship it back, even with all the bureaucracy sorted out I'd still come out ahead. Another dealer did tell me NZ$15K instead the other day but still...

Cheers
Clint

[CHOPPA]

havnt read all the posts but the prob is that if they put 5g which is what its prob worth on the price tag someone with no idea would come in with there 89 cbr 250 and want to straight swap it!