Thinking of Selling The GS

[TOMIMOTO]

Well I've been out of a job for about a month now. I still owe 1k on the GS and have been looking for a job to pay it off. I don't need to make any payments until summer '05 because I'm so ahead of my payments. I had a kick ass job before I got laid off. Now I need some cash to buy a new faster toy. I'm just wondering what everyone thinks I can get for my GS. It's a blue '04 with 2500 miles on it. My original plan was to buy 2 toys before I go back to school. A motorcycle and a car/ an or another motorcycle. I refuse to go to school until I have another new toy so I think I might have to forfeit the GS. Just wondering what you guys think I would be able to get selling it.

Again it's a blue '04 with 2500 miles on it and it has never been dropped or abused. It's my first bike. I got it fresh out of the crate with 0 miles on it. I changed the oil at 600 miles then at 1000 miles. The front tire was replaced at 800 miles due to a defect. (the tire was shredding and tearing back where the sidewall met the tread) I've also waxed it about 6 times since I've owned it. If the paint didn't feel smooth I waxed it. I just need a faster bike or a nice sporty fast car to hold me over until after I get out of school. Once I go to school I won't be able to afford anymore toys. The GS is a fun bike and all but I grew out of it really fast.

Also it's 100% stock. Absolutley nothing done to it except oil changes. It still has the warning stickers on the side fairings and tank. It's pretty much still a show room floor bike but it has never even seen the show room floor.

[jiggersplat]

let the lecturing begin!

[mp183]

Do yourself a favor and do another 2,500 miles on it.
Better to put off your "need for speed" for a couple of months than to wind-up in a situation where a little more experience could have prevented you from getting into an accident.  It's a big bad world out there.
Good Luck

[Kamil_NJ]

Where are you located?? give email , or send info to unlegal_sales@interia.pl , 908-380-3885 Kamil

[pprider]

why sell it? there is plenty you can do to the bike to enhance it. drop a tooth or two in the front sprocket (vroom), do some suspension mods. the list is huge, with only 2,500 miles theres plenty more experience yet to be had on that bike. you can make it a decent bit faster and handle a whole heck of a lot better for cheap, be like having a new bike for a fraction of the cost, and if you have a financial situation i wouldnt be going out and buying a new bike. but hey thats just my .02 :dunno:

[scratch]

...with only 2,500 miles theres plenty more experience yet to be had on that bike.

...and if you have a financial situation i wouldnt be going out and buying a new bike.

I agree, not to mention insurance.

[Von Vester]

Get a Porche or a Viper, something that will really impress the chicks (because that's what going to college is all about). You need to stand out from the dweebs who worked all summer at Mc Donald's to buy a $500 'piece of sh*t' just so they could live off campus. Heavens forbid you should be mistaken for the plebeian masses that walk to class or take public transportation. They never impress chicks (and that's what going to college is all about).

2500 miles? What are you, a slow learner? I learned everything there is to know about motorcycling in 100 miles. I ditched my 250 and went right for the 1500cc monster because that's what impresses chicks (and that's what going to college is all about). While my nerd classmates were walking to the lab or the library I was drawing big rubber circles in the K-mart parking lot and impressing chicks (because that's what going to college is all about). Get as much power between your legs as soon as possible so you can earn the right to hang out with guys named 'Clutch' and 'Cobra' and they can share their philosophy on why dropping out of 10th grade was the best thing that ever happened to them, and, of course impress chicks (because that's what going to college is all about).

Don't let the mamby-pambies tell you that you don't have enough experience for big bikes. Big bikes are an attitude and an honor and only those willing to 'grab the bull by the horns' are worthy of them. Always remember that helmets are for momma's boys that are too weak to control everything around them. You can't impress chicks while wearing a helmet and admitting that you are not in complete control (and impressing chicks is what college is all about).

Always live life as if you have something to prove, eventually somebody will be impressed.

Oh, by the way. Pick up a copy of Kelly's Blue Book or look it up on-line and you can get a fair market value for your bike. Then you can lure some unsuspecting dweeb into beleiving that 500cc's is enoough to impress chicks (because he'll think that's what going to college is all about).

[JetSwing]

2500 miles? What are you, a slow learner? I learned everything there is to know about motorcycling in 100 miles.

100 miles?? dude i ditched my gs after just 15 miles! talk about slow learner...

[mp183]

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100 miles?? dude i ditched my gs after just 15 miles! talk about slow learner...[/quote]
You were probably coddled by the MSF.
I learned how to ride on the street in front of the motorcycle shop.
Must have stalled out 8 time before I made it home.
Went from 18th Ave to 6th Ave in Brooklyn.  That's a lot of stop signs and red lights.  I must got off to slow start because I'm still learning.  Nothing like taking the MSF course and getting a formal eduction, never mind a diploma.

[JetSwing]

You were probably coddled by the MSF

actually, i was awarded, in MSF,  the fastest 8 figured (two u-turns) rider!  they said they have never seen anyone do it so fast...:mrgreen:

[Focer]

Damn Vester that shaZam! made me laugh so hard!  :lol:

[dgyver]

right on Von!  

[TOMIMOTO]

Thanks a lot assholes. I actually have a lot of riding experience even though this is my first personally owned bike. And no I don't want a sports car or a motorcycle to "show off to the chicks, because that's what college is all about." I asked a simple question to just get flamed for it. That was pretty harsh. If only you guys knew who I really was instead of thinking I'm some immature kid because I'm 18 with no riding experience or no common sense. That really pisses me off. You guys made me lose a lot of respect for this board.

For the people who gave serious responses I thank you.

As for the people who said to just upgrade the GS, I'm not really planning on doing that. It will never be what I want it to be. I don't see much potential in this bike for what I would want.

[dgyver]

[GRU]

well dude, the way you wrote your first message sounded like what most kids do....they buy the GS and think they outgrown it after 5000 miles, then they buy a bigger "faster toy" like you said, and crash....

but i know how it is when you're 18...if you decided to sell the GS you shouldn't have said anything...that way nobody would flame you...but you said you wanted a bigger, faster toy and even though you don't have a job....so that makes a think that you want a bigger bike to show off

[Jake D]

Plus, you gave Von Vester the floor.  He answered the bell as best he could (with easily the funniest post I've seen on this board).   :lol:

I am sure many people dream about bigger faster bikes ( I was just looking at cycletrader myself).  But if I lost my kick ass job, the last thing I'd do is buy a new bike.  And my GS is piece of crap-o-la.

[sprint_9]

Well Im 20 and all I have to say is check insurance before you buy anything.  I have never gotten a ticket in a car or on my bike and for a 95 CBR 600 insurance was like $1000 a year for liability  

Also, that was under my parents insurance so you can imagine what it would have been under my name.

[Dom]

I just wanted to flame you because you're 18 and have a sweet brand new bike, a nice house in the suburbs with a huge deck, a beautiful yard with awesome trees, a hot tub, and you're unemployed but still can afford a new bike and car.  Don't mind me, I'm just jealous...

[Jake D]

True dat, Dom.  True dat.

[JetSwing]

we all been there and done that....some of us are just more self-controlled that others.

TOMIMOTO, just do what make you happy man. i don't think this is kind of decision that someone else can make for you. and don't take these foos (including me) too seriously. peace.