If you think motorcycles are a poor investment, you should buy a boat. ;-)

 

Or two:



The amount of value ($$$) they lose, the first time they get wet, is heartbreaking....

 

I bought my '91 FLHS because it was simple to work on, not expensive, and still a Harley. I don't know if I could sell mine for what I bought it for and I only bought it in August. So far it has been everything I wanted it to be. I think if you buy any vehicle and sell it a few years later only losing $1500 isn't bad at all.

 

BOAT ..."bust out another thousand"...

 

Anyone who buys a harley of any kind with money management in mind is deluding themselves, any bike worths what somebody is willing to pay not a dime more and this comes from a guy who just bought a new one for cash.

Sometimes it just isn't about the money.......

 

I sold my 89 FXR for 200 dollars more than what I paid for it. I owned it since new and had about 30-40k on it when sold.
Of course this was in 92 when Harleys were becoming a fashion statement and the factory couldn't keep up with demand.

 

Because the guys that work on their own bikes and actually know HOW to work on their own bikes are all dying off. The only attachment most riders have to their bikes today is when their asses are on the seat. When turnkey riders have a problem they call AAA or the dealer to pick up the bike and deliver it back to them like nothing ever happened. Besides bikes are so technical these days you can't work on them at home. Hell even the tech's at the dealership are at a loss if the part a computer tells them to replace doesn't fix the problem.

It used to be that Harley made bikes you could work on in the field. Now they want to have have a stranglehold on the customer to force him/her back to spend money. I swear Harley dealers are worse than a Vegas casino. From the minute you walk in the door they try to get as much of your money as possible. Then when you leave the phone emails start coming for the next few days. It finally got so bad that now when I go to the dealership for free stuff I shut my phone off and go in all ninja.

 

That pretty much sums it up... except you did miss the second attachment to their bikes.... their bank accounts ....

 

I had my V rod for sale an took $400 less than I thought I'd take....cash in hand rules....I didn't take the add down an never got another call....so from now on my thinking is "take what they are offering as their max or plan on keeping it".

 

If I worried about how much I'm sinking in my old hog I'd be in trouble! I'm probably going to have about $10k in my 93 flhtc by the time I'm done with it. Yikes! But I don't care because I'll keep it forever.