uuummm dunno what to say

i read this and i thought to myself this guy is straight up nuts or on dope

tinyurl.com/6fofus

"Salvage" and "minor repair" don't often appear in the same add...

he dosent have the left cover uuummmm maybe because the freakin thing MELTED IN THE FIRE

Keep in mind.... For what I have been seeing for extreme amounts higher than this amount, this seems like a steal!

Example: e-bay carb's alone (28mm & 29mm)are the price of this.... :whistle:

Tank, rims, motor and carbs are worth that any longer.... Ain't that a shame!

OMR

eBay prices have taken a nose dive recently, 84 GPz1100 starting bid $1000 and ends with no bids, 83 GPz1100 (really nice, low miles), $800 with two hours left, like new 750 four Factory Service Manual, like new and it sells for $10 with one bid. Even metalworking machinery prices are the pits now, surface grinders starting bid $100 ending with no bid, vertical mills and lathes going for chump change.

Craigslist is the same way, number of bikes listed has tripled, but no one's buying, the economy has taken a big hit and it's showing up in the used market now.

I buy and sell metalworking machinery, but I can't get even half the price I was selling stuff for, I'm just going to sit on the machines for a couple years and hope the economy recovers by then.

Now I'm even more depressed
I'm going to fire up GPzInfested's Turbo and go out and burn up all his gas, that ought to cheer me up

yea but your gonna be depressed again when you have to fill it

i've seen this one in person.
pass on it unless you need internal motor parts.
he does have some good parts though.
www.kingpowersports.con

quader98 wrote:

yea but your gonna be depressed again when you have to fill it

Who said anything about filling it???

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


Had a real nice ride, used most of the tank of gas, cops in the nearby town are going to be on his butt hard the next time they see him in town on the Turbo. Yep, had me a real good ride

That 83 GPz1100 I said was at $800 with two hours left sold for $1200

eBay link

GPzInfested just called me on his way home from work, when I told he he'd better not ride his bike in town for awhile, he lust laughed and called me a dog

I shouldn't have warned him

Gotta be a role model you know

steell wrote:

Craigslist is the same way, number of bikes listed has tripled, but no one's buying, the economy has taken a big hit and it's showing up in the used market now.

Could be the economy (I don't know as nothing has slowed down around here as near as I can tell), but I think it's the psychology of falling gas prices. I heard not long ago that SUV sales have had a recent up-tick.

I'm inclined to assume that enough people are so ignorant that they think gas will be down in the low $2 range by next year. Maybe I'm misreading the tea leaves, but it seems that nothing has changed in the demand vs. supply equation worldwide, although it was pointed out to me today that federal and state fuel tax revenues were down drastically this year due to fewer miles traveled that they've been pressuring the price back down to encourage more driving. Somehow, that just makes too much sense. :S

Since last November, U.S. motorists have driven 53.2 billion fewer miles than they did over the same period a year earlier, topping the 1970s total drop in U.S. miles traveled of 49.3 billion miles that was caused by several recessions and increases in gasoline prices over the decade.

www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1333749120080813

According to what I've read, some areas of the country have been hit much harder economically than others, Indiana has been hit pretty hard, and East Central Indiana even more so. Local large GM plant closed up, local huge Delphi plant shut down, Borg Warner laid off hundreds of workers with final shutdown scheduled eight months from now, local Cafes are barely getting by, they took a huge hit when gas prices shot up because people stopped going out to eat, I know several truck mechanics looking for work since their business has died, I've been laid off for a month now because my employer can't afford to pay me, and they're thinking about closing up.

Things are pretty tough around here.

I hadn't noticed the number for sale increasing, but I sure have seen the number of bikes on the road increasing, particularly older Japanese bikes and dual sports.

Wife and I go to the city wide yard sales in some of the local towns and it always amazes me how many old bikes are out there sitting in garages that just need a little work to make them ridable. I personally think the increase in UJMs on the road is because the gas price reaming we all got was the incentive it took to get that little bit of work done on a lot of them and put them back on the road.