I am looking at a used Superhawk at a dealership in the Minneapolis area. It's a 1998 with 8100 miles on it, Micron high mount pipes, a stage one jet kit and dunlop sport max tires with a season or two left on them. The bike looks new. They are asking $6000 for it. I'll most likely trade in my suzuki marauder, 2000 model with 9400 miles on it. I am looking for more of a sport bike (by my standards,not the bike magazines) that I can live with as an everyday bike. I can't test ride until the snow melts but when I sat on it it felt great.
Any opinions or advice anyone can give me would be great.

 

Emwyn,

It's just my opinion, but the price seems a little high. You can pick up a brand new one or leftover (without mods of course) in that same basic price range... being that a '98 is technically 7 years old, you might want to negotiate the price.

I'd check prices on EBAY as well... that should give you a good idea of what to pay and a baseline for your negotiation, even though you'll pay more typically from a dealer than a private party anyway.

J.

BTW... I bought my '98 (12K) with a Yoshi exhaust, Corbin seat, and a 1 small coin size scuffs on it a little over a year ago from a Yamaha dealer... paid 4500 and felt I paid too much after seeing what private parties have been asking for the same bike. But I loved it... and still do.

 

Judging from what I've seen at http://www.cycletrader.com , that price is more than a little steep. It sounds like they are expecting you to pay a premium rate for the VTR and then foot the bill for the jet kit installation and the Micron slip-on exhaust. Good luck trying to get them to do the same for you on a trade-in .

According to Kelly Blue Book, MSRP for a '98 VTR1000F is $4750. Adding $130 for the slip-ons ($65 x 2) brings the fair market value of a '98 SuperHawk with slip-on exhaust to $4880. If you really like the bike in question, you might show-up with a Kelly Blue Book print-out in-hand and see if they are willing to sell you the VTR for $5000 all-in. (Average trade-in per Kelly Blue Book is $3270, so they would likely still be making a wad of cash on the deal.)

To access both Kelly Blue Book and NADA values, go to http://www.themotorcycleshopga.com/links.html and scroll down the "Links" page to the section "Market Values".

(By the way, the bike featured in the image at the header of the Web site is SuperChicken II, right after the WebCam racing cams and Ferrea light-weight valves were installed, and a week before it was stolen...She got a cameo role for the sake of posterity, I guess.)

cheers,
--HotStreetVTR

 

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To reach the URL in question, click on The Motorcycle Shop


cheers,
--HotStreetVTR

 

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cheers,
--HotStreetVTR

 

Too bad you're so far... I'd sell you my '01 w/ 6K miles

 

I'm in mn also, I'm guessing it's at tousley? If that's the case there alway's high. There was one in the cycletrader in coon rapids with about the same miles and it was going for 4800, I'd check there first.