KX250/KX500 ON CRAIGSLIST

[JBKX]

FYI if anyone is interested.

http://portland.craigslist.org/grg/mcy/651125056.html

Too expensive for me.

[Danger4u2]

Quote from listing:  Service Honda builds these bikes and sells them for $10,000

Service Honda charges big dollars because the do quality work and extensive R & D.  That bike looks like a steel frame.  Service Honda builds Alum. frame bikes.  I like Service Honda.  They sell me all my Honda parts,  shipped to my door cheaper than either of the 2 Honda shops that are 10 miles from my house.

Watch out for anyone that does Key Word Spamming like that guy.

1st picture Service Honda KX 500 AF

2nd picture Horban Racing KX 500 in 250 frame.

[ImmortalSoul219]

I was going to say, Y put the 500 motor in a steel frame?  Aluminum is the way to go!

[Kev]

Quote from listing:  Service Honda builds these bikes and sells them for $10,000

Service Honda charges big dollars because the do quality work and extensive R & D.  That bike looks like a steel frame.  Service Honda builds Alum. frame bikes.  I like Service Honda.  They sell me all my Honda parts,  shipped to my door cheaper than either of the 2 Honda shops that are 10 miles from my house.

Watch out for anyone that does Key Word Spamming like that guy.

1st picture Service Honda KX 500 AF

2nd picture Horban Racing KX 500 in 250 frame.

I'm with you Danger. When I'm rich and shameless, there will be a Service Honda KX 500AF in my garage.

[GDubb]

Of course I myself wouldn't buy a complete bike sight unseen or without hearing it run but it doesnt seem too outrageous to me.  Any of us mechanically inclined people would be able to spot a hack welding or fabrication job, right? Seems he was just compairing his KX500 swap into a newer model chasis with a well known builder of KX500 swap into newer chasis bikes. He is asking less than HALF of what Service Honda asks for their bikes. The steel/aluminum comparison seems irrelevant.  For a quality built bike with more modern ergonomics and suspension I would gladly pay $5700 less than a somewhat similar bike just because of an aluminum frame. Not saying I would pay the full asking price, but if I were in the market I would at least check the bike out before I flamed the guy.

[kaw rider]

i think for the money a kx500af is a better deal then the craiglist bike. everything is brand new on the service bike.

[GDubb]

There is an almost $6000 difference in "the money".

[gowen]

There is an almost $6000 difference in "the money".

Yeah, 8 years for the frame and 14 years for the motor. That in itself is worth the extra $6000 to me. To each his own.

[GDubb]

I definitely see what you guys are sayin as I hate to trust a piece of machinery that is used, but I havent had any choice as far as dirtbikes go. I couldnt get financed for a new bike if I tried so I have no choice but to trust a used bike. Also, in my own opinion, I dont see why a new KX500 in a new chasis should be any more than a new KX450F. Granted, they arent being mass produced and rolling off an assembly line, but I still couldnt get my head around paying 10 g's for one.  But now if I won the lottery...

[gowen]

Granted, they arent being mass produced and rolling off an assembly line

That is the difference between a machine building them by the thousands vs. a lone human being building them one at a time. I sure wish I had the time to build my own.

[Danger4u2]

They have to buy the parts and then build the motors.  They no longer sell motors.