Two questions for the motorsports and Motorcycle enthusiast here:
1-- What websites should I check out to try to find used motorcycles for sale from the 1990's model years so that I can try to get a ballpark idea of what my friends 1998 Harley Davidson sportster 883XLH "Hugger" is worth?
I've looked at cycletrader and one other online resource, and all I found were ads from dealers asking $4000-$5000 for these 25+ year old motorcycles. I'm pretty sure their prices are unrealistic and not what I would expect selling it to another private individual who wants it, and is not planning on flipping it for a profit.
2-- What do you guys think it would be worth if I were to sell it on behalf of my friend maybe a month from now?
It's got 36,200 miles, has been owned by a total of three people for the last 20 years, but I don't know anything about its ownership from when it was new to when it was about six years old. I don't know anything about its maintenance prior to five years ago when my friend acquired it from the estate of his deceased friend, and my friend is a very mechanically minded guy who rebuilds his own car engines and fixes all sorts of small engines for lawn and landscaping equipment. My friend checked everything about it before he rode it, but he only ride it a few times a year. During his ownership of it he changed the front tire, the spark plugs and the air filter.
I just got the back tire changed because it was both bald and 20 years old the front tire is only five years old and looks nearly new this bike is not seeing a lot of miles in the last five years. But it's never been stored long-term, never abandoned in the barn or spent years untouched under a tarp in the backyard.
It's been used intermittently for years, and my friend rode it maybe five times last year.
I've personally put 500 miles on it over several trips during the last 4 weeks that he left it with me with instructions to ride it, enjoy it, fix up a few small things, and then sell it.
IT went down on its right side when my friend used it in heavy traffic in Atlanta year ago, as he locked both of the tires during emergency braking, and the bike dropped just a couple yards before it stopped. It scraped the handlebar and front brake reservoir, scuffed up the crash bar on the right corner, ripped off the rear right turn signal, and put a little scuff and rip on the upper right corner of the passenger's back rest.
(Pics available on request.)
This is the 883 engine size, not the 1200 ---although the guy at the motorcycle shop who just put a rear tire on it & test-drove it said that it felt torquey like a 1200 to him. He asked me if it had been bored-out or had the power increases through a "stage" upgrade. I said no--not as far as I know.
1-- What websites should I check out to try to find used motorcycles for sale from the 1990's model years so that I can try to get a ballpark idea of what my friends 1998 Harley Davidson sportster 883XLH "Hugger" is worth?
I've looked at cycletrader and one other online resource, and all I found were ads from dealers asking $4000-$5000 for these 25+ year old motorcycles. I'm pretty sure their prices are unrealistic and not what I would expect selling it to another private individual who wants it, and is not planning on flipping it for a profit.
2-- What do you guys think it would be worth if I were to sell it on behalf of my friend maybe a month from now?
It's got 36,200 miles, has been owned by a total of three people for the last 20 years, but I don't know anything about its ownership from when it was new to when it was about six years old. I don't know anything about its maintenance prior to five years ago when my friend acquired it from the estate of his deceased friend, and my friend is a very mechanically minded guy who rebuilds his own car engines and fixes all sorts of small engines for lawn and landscaping equipment. My friend checked everything about it before he rode it, but he only ride it a few times a year. During his ownership of it he changed the front tire, the spark plugs and the air filter.
I just got the back tire changed because it was both bald and 20 years old the front tire is only five years old and looks nearly new this bike is not seeing a lot of miles in the last five years. But it's never been stored long-term, never abandoned in the barn or spent years untouched under a tarp in the backyard.
It's been used intermittently for years, and my friend rode it maybe five times last year.
I've personally put 500 miles on it over several trips during the last 4 weeks that he left it with me with instructions to ride it, enjoy it, fix up a few small things, and then sell it.
IT went down on its right side when my friend used it in heavy traffic in Atlanta year ago, as he locked both of the tires during emergency braking, and the bike dropped just a couple yards before it stopped. It scraped the handlebar and front brake reservoir, scuffed up the crash bar on the right corner, ripped off the rear right turn signal, and put a little scuff and rip on the upper right corner of the passenger's back rest.
(Pics available on request.)
This is the 883 engine size, not the 1200 ---although the guy at the motorcycle shop who just put a rear tire on it & test-drove it said that it felt torquey like a 1200 to him. He asked me if it had been bored-out or had the power increases through a "stage" upgrade. I said no--not as far as I know.
