Iron 883 value?
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From: Newport,TN area
any buyers these days think it's worth....
Again - just my opinion....
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From: Northeast Florida
Update: I ended up not listing it until September of last year. I put it on CycleTrader at $8,000 and got no (serious) inquires. Checked with two places online who buy used bikes and was offered ridiculously low amounts. Local HD dealership says they buy used bikes but they're not buying any now because they have so many. So I decided to wait until February hoping I'd have more luck pre-motorcycle season. Of course motorcycle season in Florida is year-round but hey. Put it back on CT at $7,500. Put in on FB Marketplace. No luck. I have a buddy who's office is right on A1A where I live. He bought a new truck and put his old one out in front of his office and sold it in a week. So he said I could park the bike out there. I put it out there literally 15 feet off the side of A1A last weekend and go no calls. This weekend was a huge yearly festival where I live that draws 150,000 people over the three day weekend. I put it back up there Friday afternoon and just went and got it and rode it home. Nothing. Nada. Not one phone call. Granted it poured down rain Saturday so the normal volume of festival-goers was way way down but today was gorgeous and it was packed there as normal.
I know other people trying to sell used bikes with no luck too. And I've read the used motorcycle market has been dead for almost two years. Guess I'll just have to wait it out and enjoy it while I still have it.
I know other people trying to sell used bikes with no luck too. And I've read the used motorcycle market has been dead for almost two years. Guess I'll just have to wait it out and enjoy it while I still have it.
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From: The Wasteland
Good luck man, I have been watching the used market for some time now and sold a used Sporty last year. Tough time to sell right now. Keep at it, it just takes that certain person to see your bike.
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Bikes can be a tough sell. Especially one with any customizations. I cant tell you how may OC Chopper style bikes I have seen listed for sale for under $10k. Those bike were like $50k new. This is why I never buy my bikes new.
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I don't know how well the market is doing for buying and selling but when I look at some bikes in the dealership that have had multiple owners with just a few thousand miles on the them it seems people buy a bike but are changing their minds very quickly.
Perhaps now folk are thinking it through before jumping in.
Perhaps now folk are thinking it through before jumping in.
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From: The Wasteland
I don't know how well the market is doing for buying and selling but when I look at some bikes in the dealership that have had multiple owners with just a few thousand miles on the them it seems people buy a bike but are changing their minds very quickly.
Perhaps now folk are thinking it through before jumping in.
Perhaps now folk are thinking it through before jumping in.
Like the old saying goes, everyone wants to be a biker until it's time to do biker stuff.
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From: Idaho
Then, unfortunately, they learn the truth about old legs and 850 pounds. Which is why there are thousands of Harley touring bikes with less than 2,500 miles flooding the used market.
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From: Northeast Florida
I've had cruisers off and on since 2008. I love my Sportster and love riding it. I'm just at the point where I don't feel the risk is worth the reward anymore at my age (63). None of my friends ride anymore. The only riding I do now is around where I live and I stay on back roads so I rarely even see other bikers to wave at. Lol. I live in a coastal town in FL and while it used to be fun to ride A1A for hours it's just too risky anymore. Summers packed with beach goers drinking and partying (and driving). This used to be a small quaint little spot and now it's experienced massive growth. The two-lane road to the beach is now six lanes. It's crazy.
And I plan on retiring in two years and would like to try rv life for awhile. Just me and the dog in a little teardrop trailer traveling around the country.
And I plan on retiring in two years and would like to try rv life for awhile. Just me and the dog in a little teardrop trailer traveling around the country.
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From: shore of Gitche Gumee
Motorcycling is the one joy in life that the medical community, father time, or common sense has taken from me. I ain't givin it up!
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