When are you stuck with your Monster?

[Porsche Monkey]

Guilty as charged, to a degree. The ironic part is there is practically nowhere to really ride it unless we load up on the Superferry and go to Maui. No ferry service to the Big Island as of yet. No matter how we try to mix it up there are always, and I repeat, always the same roads. It's only a question of how heavy the traffic is, not whether or not there is traffic. Same story every year. You guys only get envious during the winter. 

That sounds like a punishment.  You have an awesome bike but limited roads.  I would die.

[Statler]

Guilty as charged, to a degree. The ironic part is there is practically nowhere to really ride it unless we load up on the Superferry and go to Maui. No ferry service to the Big Island as of yet. No matter how we try to mix it up there are always, and I repeat, always the same roads. It's only a question of how heavy the traffic is, not whether or not there is traffic. Same story every year. You guys only get envious during the winter. 

As a sailor you get little sympathy here....trapped in paradise....the sea is different every single time out.

But for biking I see your point.

If the bike is paid for think of it not as stuck with it, but as having a toy for use whenever you want...even if it's one time per year.  It's the option to use it whenever that counts now.   Toys with payments make people feel bad...paid off toys should be a source of joy no matter how often they are used.

[vampireduc]

I'm with Staler on that one!.... If it is paid off, keep it!  Seasons change, you may end up moving to the Tenn/ NC border, then you'd shoot yourself for not having it!

[Norm]

Alright, I retract my "sympathy" statement, I've been to Hawaii and wouldn't consider it a bikers paradise. To make YOU envious, I live in the mountains near Asheville NC. [moto]

[Grampa]

I know...... your stuck with it, when you buy a red capirex 620 that goes 140 and you find out it was never registered, and you cant register it, and you cant sell it cuz you cant register it..... so yer stuck.

[erik822]

If you're relatively "firm" on the price, then you're probably pretty "limp" on the idea of selling it.

But to echo what almost everyone here has been saying. You don't get money back for mods. Ever. Ask any Harley owner...
Two main reasons:
1. People won't pay extra for something they didn't ask for.
2. Used bikes are used bikes. The "extras" are a bonus for the buyer, not the seller. For proof of that, check out the value of any Ducati Dark vs. the normal version. The darks have lower grade parts (for the commonly replaced parts) and a cheaper paint job. Yet, when used, they sell for the same amount.

If you want to make the most possible money selling your bike, sell it piece by piece. A shame, since it sounds like a great bike, but it is the best way to get the most money back out of it. Now give up that silly idea, fire it up and go for a ride instead. If you're smiling at the end, then you should probably keep the bike.

[MadDuck]

I know...... your stuck with it, when you buy a red capirex 620 that goes 140 and you find out it was never registered, and you cant register it, and you cant sell it cuz you cant register it..... so yer stuck.

LOL. Now that's sucking stuck. I know of a couple other people with registration problems. Bad news it is. Wouldn't be so bad if there was a track that they could be ridden at. However, alas, no track exists either. Maybe that's double suck stuck.


And..... for Norm...... this weekend, after it takes about a minute to go through what passes for a series of turns, I shall think of you and curse softly under my helmet and hope that you have to throw another log on the fire. 

[DoubleEagle]

I just happened to see that one of the LARGE Ducati Dealers in the L A area has a used S4Rs w, 4500 miles for sale asking $11,495.

I mention this just to give a professional idea to what a particular used Monster may be worth or at least close to.

Also I feel much surer that my 7 mile S4Rs is worth more than the one w, 4500 miles, as much as at least $1000 more retail.    Dolph