Ya know, you would think that. But I can tell you (and some of you may remember) that last year, maybe a year and a half ago, there was someone on ebay that was selling a brand new, 1998 SJR 600 F3 that had 1 mile on the odometer. It was never ridden. It was stored since then and he couldn't sell it for $5000. I mean think about it. If you had $5000 and the opportunity to buy 10 year old motorcycle, or a 3 year old fuel injected rocket, which would you buy. Keep in mind that as soon as you started to ride that bike with 1 mile on it, it would be worth half that.

(ok, if I just won that PowerBall in KY, then I'd buy them both)

This person is completely out of touch with reality.

 

Guys just stuffing you around, getting people interested by stating a lower price, an old ruse. Don't even go by the book, give him your number & tell him if he wants to sell for the original asking price then he's got till the New Year, which is when your going to start looking elsewhere. (& if your feeling really twisted, offer him $500 less).
Also, apart from what everyone else has suggested you look for, the age (year of manufacture) of the tyres is on the side wall, 4 or 5 letter+number code ending with the year made.

 

It's cool.. I chalk it up to a funny story to tell... on a positive note.. the F3 seemed very comfortable for the short ride I did take.. SMOOTH.. lol.. I'm back to my search of F3s and F4s...

 

I agree with you completely. I personally would buy the newer one. But there's probably someone out there that has a thing for that style of bike.

 

Also, that would be worth it to be able to say you have one of the(if not the) nicest f3 in the world

 

You'd run into the same problem RojerLockless had with his F4i: too pretty to ride.

I'd get that bike at $3k with every intention of sealing it behind glass as a showcase piece At $2k its ridable. At $5k its a crackpipe dream on the owner's part

 

Yeah I agree. To me, "too nice to ride" means I can't have fun on it. that takes away from the purpose of a bike

 

LOL... so true Kuroshio.... he did change his ad today to an asking price of $5000.. so.. wow...

 

well good luck to him

 

BTW, you did give him my number right?? I'm a patient man.. it may take a few months, but he'll come down to a more reasonable price and by then you'll have some other F3... LOL. So I get a road trip out of it anyway...

JK