Parky60 wrote:
If your "friend" paid $45k for that bike he got royally screwed. And he was totally stupid -- like your usual posts -- to sell it to you for $8k.
As usual you have no ability to comprehend what you are reading...
He thought he had blown the motor, you can't buy a bike with a blown high performance motor that could take anywhere from $5k to closer to $10k to have replaced (I do not work on these) and not lose money trying to help a desperate friend out.
He set the price based on a blown motor, I told him that it might be fine, if it was I'd kick him back another few thousand if it didn't need a motor and it sold at a good price...which is why I gave him $6500.
You apparently are ignorant as to how much a full Simms custom costs, wheels are $1500 each with tires, there are a dozen custom machined accessories such as the turn signals, grips, that match the gas caps that cost hundreds each, the seat is custom stitched, the paint is a ghost flame job done by a guy that gets over $5k for his work, everything is custom little parts that cost big bucks, the tank has a custom inset with the tack inside.
He traded a supercharged custom ford show truck, Simms gets big bucks for his custom bikes, customers have to wait as much as a year or more to get the bikes they order and pay for.
Stupid guys find themselves in bad situations where they have to sell their hideously expensive toys to make rent payments and survive. A few years ago I bought a two year old boat that cost the guy $35k for $6000, he needed it to make his house payments or lose his house. My friend got cancer and can't work, he was behind on his rent by a month or two. At least I'm a good enough friend to help him out and kick him back a few thousand more dollars if I can come out okay on this, which is more than greedy people do.
As a last word on my friend, he is profoundly stupid as far as I'm concerned, he has a race level quad that he is trying to get $20k for because he has $40k in race caliber suspension and motor work, he will never get that. He has spent money stupidly that he should have in the bank.