I'll agree with too many low mileage ones on the market and the fact that people have a sentimental attachment and price their bike too high. In my area that's a $5K bike on CL, I'd say take the trade in and make sure you just polish the new one of you are looking for resale value.

 

Why buy a bike with 60,000 miles when there are lots of bikes with less than 10,000 miles for sale??? Let me put the miles on the bike. I think the dealer offer isn't too far off. Ron

 

Don't you also save some on sales tax between the one you trade and the one you buy?

 

Put on your ad priced to sell , well maintained. Ready to ride, milage, call for more info.

 

Take the dealers offer you'll ahead of the game with fewer head and heart aches. Bikes and mileage are like hookers and age, as the later goes up the value goes down.

 

In Texas you only pay the TAX on the difference. Find the bottom line on the deal. Mileage and model are working against you, they weren't strong sellers new and that is more true for used.

How about keeping it as a second bike????

 

I keep my cars and bikes a long time. I would never buy a used car with more then 50,000 miles on it or a used bike with more then 25,000 miles on it. That's just me. I believe in mileage. I believe that all sorts of things go wrong as a result of mileage, and not just the engine.

I agree with the others who said take the dealer's offer. It sounds good. If not, I wouldn't expect you would get more then 5-6 thousand, maybe even a little less.

 

Trade it in or price it to sell.

 

Put you mileage in the listing and save yourself some calls that are looking for lower mileage bikes, No use in hiding it. I had just over 80,000 on my 4 year old CVO Ultra and my dealer didn't want it which didn't surprise me as he doesn't do too many used bike anyway. Tried a dealer 50 miles away who does do a ton of used bikes and even he didn't want it. I finally got hooked up with Rommel HD while a Ocean City bike week and they did me a ''fair'' deal on another CVO Limited. The mileage cost me 1o,ooo bucks less in trade in value over a 30,000 mile identical CVO. But screw it, I bought it to ride. So ya might have to get rid of it that way but wish ya luck on a private sale

 

I would take the dealers offer and not look back. Personally, and no offense to anyone that doesn't, i wouldn't buy a bike that had more than 5 miles on it. Reason being, (especially a younger guy like myself) that I know how much I beat on my bikes. I want to be the one doing the beating and no one else. Now I don't mean beating on it constantly every time I take it out, But I probably get on the throttle harder than most and usually hit 100+ at some point if not multiple times I take the bike out. That's just my 2 cents. I'm not saying you've best on it or neglected it, but I know a lot of guys that do.