^ Yes, those are some good points and, ultimately, any "used" purchase is a bit of a roll of the dice.

Check out this thread - https://www.fireblades.org/threads/w...le-mark.88926/!

I think he ended up with a bit over 300K before moving on...

 

thanks for the answer and for the link, i sill check it !
And sorry if some of my posts are long , i like to get into details and write all that comes to my mind if i feel it might help understanding the post better and / or give more infos about what i talk about !

by the way, even if i spoke about different things that could be a problem when buying a motorcyles with many km/ mileage , i understand it can be a safe enough purchase , if the motorcyle has always been taken care , knowing that many motorbike can go up to 120 000 km ( 74500 miles ) or more , as long as they've been maintained and used properly !
In this case , it can be a very reasonable purchase when the motorcycle is sold with enough informations to be sure it has always been used and maintained properly over the years .

 

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Big and weird surprise last night as i reloaded by mistake the add of the 1994 CBR900RR Fireblade Urban Tiger that i had missed last week , as the seller in that shop had told me 8 days ago the motorcycle had been sold by his colleague earlier that day and the buyer had already made a deposit to reserve it and wired the money from his bank account to theirs !
As a matter of fact i had not seen it was such a big motorcycles dealer outside a city in the far East of France , in an industrial zone , reuniting not less than 3 brands ,in 3 different shop, Honda , Kawasaki , MV Augusta and they also have a shop dedicated to rider's equipment and motorcycles accessories / parts .

All their adds for this motorcycle on different websites had been taken down during the night between friday and saturday last week , but i had kept the link open somewhere in all the tabs opened in my internet browsers and reloaded it by mistake , searching for another add, when i saw the add for that Urban Tiger was on again !

So i verified their 2 other adds that had been taken down and they were on again as well !

I emailed the seller in that shop early this morning and received a mail from him a few hours later today, saying that the motorcycle was for sale once again without anymore details on the reason why, despite my question about it !

I was happy at first but i got a little suspicious on why someone who had made a deposit to reserve that motorbike and then wired the money to pay for it later ( so i suppose he saw the motorbike in between the moment he made the deposit and wired the money to pay for it ; and maybe even tried to ride it in between ) brought it back just a week later ( and certainly asked for refund ) ?

What happened during that week where he rode the bike , for he brought it back ?

Knowing i was already wondering if 8 owners was much for a sportbike like that in 27 years but also i wonder more and more if that is not that motorcycle i had seen for sale on a website specialised about classified adds for sales of motorcycles and cars , a couple moths ago !
If i remember well it had the same mileage/ km and was also sold for the same price !
It suddenly disappeared and reappeared several days later for sale again on that same website for a few, days / couple weeks or so , with same mileage / km and price , before disappearîng again !
And if it's the same, to reappear after that , for sale in that big motorcycle dealer a few weeks later !

There are not so many of these CBR900 RR Urban Tiger , for sale in France every year , especialy in good condition and with not so much mileage / km ( i mean under 50 000 km or even less, this one having 43000 km and that is what i remember for the one i had seen for sale on that classified adds website a couple of months ago or so !).

So i really wonder what's going on with this motorcycle !
The seller had told me " The previous owner has had the bike for about 5 years and has done 300 kms since then, a lot of maintenance had been done by the previous owner who was apparently in the business. ".
So i guess nothing has been done on it for 5 years and i wonder if that much maintenance had been done before that !

 

Yeah, that seems very sketchy. I'd much rather invest in a bike that I could verify had been taken care of, even if it wasn't my "dream" bike... unless I was confident in my ability to assess everything that needed to be done and invest the time and money to do so...

 

What really makes me wonder what's going on with this bike is that the day the seller had told me it was sold ( just one week before it appeared again for sale in several classified adds for sale , including on that Honda dealer's shop website ) and all the adds for sale for this bike removed during the following night , as i had received his email saying his colleague had just sold the bike in the afternoon ( whereas he had took several days to answer my email with questions about the bike and also to know how to make a deposit to reserve it and i received his email just a few hours before he told me it was sold ) ,i had asked him if the buyer had really made a deposit to reserve it and paid for the motorbike as well , then the seller answered me :
" Yes the motorcycle is sold, a deposit has been paid for the reservation and the transfer of the total is already done ! "

And today , he called me back as i had emailed him last friday to ask if the motorbike was really for sale once again just one week after it was sold ( as i had just seen all the classified adds for sale of this bike reappearing everywhere , where they had disappeared a week before when i had been told it was sold ) , so i asked him why it was for sale again ( i had asked in the email but he did not answer that question !) and he answered me that the buyer had only made a deposit to reserve the motorbike but that he could not get the financing from his bank , so the sale was cancelled ...whereas i had under my eyes the email he had sent me to tell me the bank wire had been done for the total amount ; the email i quoted above where he had told me :
" Yes the motorcycle is sold, a deposit has been paid for the reservation and the transfer of the total is already done ! "
But i let him speak on the phone today ( not telling him i had this email under my eyes) to see how much he was taking me for a stupid moron customer !

The thing is that when i had asked him :
"Do you know what the last owner had done on it since he bought it and how many km he rode it, as well as the date he bought the bike? "
As i quoted in my previous post , he had answered me about the last owner :
"The previous owner has had the bike for about 5 years and has done 300 kms since then "
but also that about the owner just before the last owner :
" a lot of maintenance had been done by the previous owner who apparently was in the business." .

So basically he was saying that before those 5 years where the bike only rode 186 miles /300lm , it was owned by a person who was in the motorcycle business , implying that obviously , all of the maintenance needed had been done to it ( in his mind , telling me that , he must have thought that's what i would think for sure !) but he had no track of it nor any evidence of that obviously , so he could say whatever he wanted , he knew i had no way to verify anything about that previous owner said to be in the motorcycle business anyway !

 

That type of salesperson is why I have only bought vehicles from owners the last 10 years or so. I've always wondered how successful I might be if I opened a business and was honest with customers...