Ultimate Yamaha R1 + complete package

[Grubber]

Thanks for your comments....Everyone seems to forget what I'm including with this sale as well. The bike with the exception of the k's on the clock is not like a bike of its age or running.

This would not look out of place in a showroom....all in all it is bloody good value for the money, you couldn't get close to anything like this for a fraction of the price.

But as you point out, I suspect you are right in some ways and no one seems willing to pay for something like this which makes me think it is not appreciated as quite a few comments passed already indicate. Perhaps NZ is not ready for something a little bit different and special and there aren't many people like me around....Oh well, so be it!!

This might be why you have so few friends.lol.
"perhaps NZ is not ready for something a little different and special and there aren't many people like me around"

NZ is ready, we let you in didn't we?

[Grubber]

Oh shit, has he gone already?
Hope it wasn't something we said.

[Nonbeliever]

some guys are dreamers.
dale is one of them

[Quasievil]

Did the buyer get the transporter with it?

Couple of years ago I was on the border Pakistan and Afganistan and they had a bunch of those trucks there, I managed to get a look inside a few and fuck they are actually kinda cool in a fucked up Gangsterstan kinda way they are blinged out hard core, awesome stereos etc

[Gibbo89]

yes it is , for $16500 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-330633606.htm

So is this one if you really want a total go fast package
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-335094924.htm

he said its similar to a gpz, either the gpz bikes he knows are bloody fast, or his r1 is running on 2 cylinders.

[Madness]

Even I draw the line at colouring in the lettering on the sidewalls of my tyres

[Quasievil]

Even I draw the line at colouring in the lettering on the sidewalls of my tyres

But thats part of "the complete package" and its about as high performing as anything else on the bike to just quietly

[AllanB]

While I am happily tweaking and adjusting and modding my Hornet I am realistic about the added value of any modifications I do. The cost is never represented when you come to sell it.

In fact there are very few modifications that add extra appeal to a used bike over one of the same year, kms etc that is stock standard - usually that is a after market pipe (the most common extra). Fancy suspenders would be another value added extra. By value added it is not going to add much to the sale price but most likely to improve the ability of the bike to sell quicker.

Often the alteration on a bike is wrongly seen by a prospective buyer as a potential problem and there is a preference to stock standard. Now I personally like to treat a new bike as a work in progress but many do not.

To the OP, I'd seriously consider returning the bike to close to stock, lowering the price to something realistic then flicking off the extra goodies on Trademe unit by unit.

Now I hope you understand that this opinion of mine is given with the best intentions of aiding a fellow motorcyclist.


PS - I like my Honda better - but that is just personal taste.

[Madness]

Bike no longer for sale, don't deserve it!!

Better hurry, only 11 days left now!

[Max Preload]

And what the hell is that supposed to mean....and I'm from the UK!

That certainly doesn't preclude you from being an Injun.

[Sable]

All your shiny gold stuff cost you $6930. I could get a couple of decent complete bikes for that. I know which I'd prefer.

[jonbuoy]

Haters unite, not my idea of the ultimate R1 either but the guy was just putting his bike up for sale, the thread wasn't titled "is this the ultimate R1". If you don't like it don't buy it. Bit like seeing a for sale sign on a house, ringing on the doorbell telling them you don't like the colour of their house and its not worth what they're asking.

[Gubb]

That's a bike that only Mick Hucknall could love.

[onearmedbandit]

Bit like seeing a for sale sign on a house, ringing on the doorbell telling them you don't like the colour of their house and its not worth what they're asking.

If it was on a house forum, then they'd get the same treatment.

[jonbuoy]

If it was on a house forum, then they'd get the same treatment.

Your probably right, the same thing that turns normal decent people into aggressive morons behind the wheel of a car or handlebars of a bike turns otherwise decent folk into overly opinionated arseholes when they get in front of a keyboard, putting their views across and saying things in a way they would never do in a face to face conversation. I'm sure I'm just as guilty as the next person.