If one were to sell ..

[thejij]

If one were to sell...... both his bikes..... would any members be interested before they theoretically arrived on kijiji?

[fj1200]

A theoretical expectation of the renumeration required would be nice.

[thejij]

theoretically, I would say make a theoretical remuneration and see where it goes

[Rusty Bucket]

I have an opinion on this - without pursuing the question of valuation.  I think it is a good practice to offer a bike to be sold to the membership first, especially if the bike is of that certain age and collector-plate eligible, realizing, of course, that the group is small, and the chances of finding a buyer amongst such a limited number perhaps not very great.   After a short interval - a week? two? - of being available on the club site, and failing to find a new owner amongst the members, you can go on to advertise it to the public at large, knowing any obligations to the members have certainly been discharged (they had their chance).

  Depending on the circumstances, don't overlook the possibility of the trade as well, since some prefer what I consider a delicate and tricky deal to pull off.  I recently ran across a guy that a club member had swapped bikes with - and though everyone would, and did, agree that the bike that the club member took in was more valuable than the one he traded away, the guy who had given up the more valuable bike could not have been happier with the exchange, and was thrilled with the whole process.

[thejij]

I agree russ, we should always offer to the club first and foremost. Thanks for explaining it so eloquently.

As for trades...  Interesting.  Yes that is something I would entertain as well.  The Yamaha is already plated for collector,  but the kawasaki can never be. It is so not stock anymore,  with the paint and removal of that fugly fairing among other things.

[Rusty Bucket]

  Not that it would be the time to undertake it, but the Kawasaki might still be eligible for a collector plate.  The bike could be approved with or without the fairing, as you are allowed any period fairing, bags etc, and in your case, taking the Quicksilver off made your Spectre closer to stock, anyway. They don't much care about paint choices - as you can imagine, that would be a hard area to have written rules on.  There was always some variability in the standards North Van was applying, but recently I have seen some very-obviously not very stock bikes get approvals with exactly the kinds of parts that the inspectors used to reject - meaning small, loud-looking and clearly chopper-style aftermarket mufflers, (which they traditionally could both recognize and invariably rejected) and missing badges (which in the past they always seemed to have looked closely at).
Don't know why the standards might be ranging ever-more widely at ICBC, but in some recent instances, they are.

 With this in mnd, I'm retro-actively all-the-more pissed-off that they rejected Hans' AS-3, which was exactly the bike the program was created for originally, and given what I have been seeing recently, all the more of an injustice, since that bike was so obviously, completely, and inarguably stock, and simultaneously wholly unsuitable for the use they were wary of insuring it for (regular workaday commuting work, which I guess is a problem for them in Vancouver, in spite of 'to and from work and school' being excluded from coverage). 

  Anyway, and as I say, not that it makes a difference for a bike you are going to part ways with...

[fast1]

    Sure, you just HAD to sell the Fazer right after I bought a house! Dammit! CHEERS.

[MaximX]

How is that Fazer running?.....  I could be interested in that my bike is still apart!    You really want to sell it?

[thejij]

ahhh.. sorry wayne lol.. I know you liked the lil yammy... btw.. wayne.. do you have any relation to John (electrician at houle)? He took my daughter to Prom this year. Same last name as you.

mike... perhaps yes. I may want to get rid of both bikes here in the next couple weeks. Perhaps upgrade to a different type/model.

Im open to offers...but.. maybe just PM them to me.. rather than on the forum. Oh and it runs like a fast freaking Fazer.. that thing will scare me at times, just ask parker he took it for a rip too

[MaximX]

PM sent.

[thejij]

pm replied