Topic: sell whole or part out? that is the question...

[nickjtc]

If you've got space to store the bike where it will be unmolested, keep it. If you figure that you will only get a few hundred dollars for it intact you might as well hang on.

As others have said, there is no way of knowing how the future will affect the value of these bikes. Personally i can only but believe that as things get scarcer they will be more valuable with time.

[winston]

There's a K7 presently attracting $3300.00 USD, so yeah, you should of course keep it.


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[my78k]

yeah but mine doesn't look like that!

[nickjtc]

yeah but mine doesn't look like that!

Doesn't matter.

As long as it's complete and intact, do the necessary to minimise your woes when it is time to start again (drain the carbs, empty the tank and slosh some oil around inside it, change the oil etc, etc, etc), park it and forget it until it's time to start again.

[winston]

yeah but mine doesn't look like that!

My 77 didn't look like that either when I bought it, and it's still shy a few bits to get there, but the point is that you own a bike that will probably always be worth as much or more than what you paid for it...

[dusterdude]

if you store it for the next 20 years,start buying maintanence parts now.in 20 years most of that stuff will be gone.

[nippon]

If you want to earn some money,....part it out.
If you want to spare time,....sell the whole bike.
that's all.

nippon

[Troy R]

Thanks.... That was the first post I've ever read in my life,all the while wandering if I should take my newly acquired 77 550 k into my basement for "A" winter rebuild... Scheech . Can someone please talk me back into it

[nickjtc]

Thanks.... That was the first post I've ever read in my life,all the while wandering if I should take my newly acquired 77 550 k into my basement for "A" winter rebuild... Scheech . Can someone please talk me back into it

In the inimitable words words of that running shoe company (you know, the one that paid Michael Jordan, alone, more than the salary base of the entire manufacturing workforce in Asia)......

JUST DO IT!!