A friend of mine has a 2006 Fat Boy with about 40k miles on it. It doesn’t have anything in the way of great mods, just a computer upgrade and some short shots. He’s trading for a Road Glide Ultra and was offered $14k for his Fat Boy. If the dealer is willing to go in that deep on his old bike I can’t imagine used bike prices are that bad.

Although, I follow a lot of auctions on ebay and I’m finding that bids are way, way down for most bikes. Basically I think I’m saying I have no idea what’s going on with used bike prices!

 

If I were going to trade my bike in for a new model, I would remove as many of the upgrades as possible and put the stock parts back on. Of course, I do all my own wrenching, so this would not be a problem. If you don't wrench, then chances are you paid top dollar to have your parts installed. You are going to lose, no matter what you do. If I was selling my bike myself, I would leave the mods and use them as a selling point, like the dealers do. Plus, I would work with a buyer if they wanted something put back to stock. I would then sell the removed parts on flea bay or craigslist. Just my 2 pesos.

 

Yeah, but how much over MSRP does the dealer have the new bike marked up?

 

If my local craigslist is any indication, either used bike prices aren't down at all or the sellers are complete ****ing lunatics. I literally laugh out loud when I peruse CL to see what's on the market.

 

I know what you mean. I see the same thing. It's like people think they are going to get back every cent they put in for mods, including the labor charges to install the stuff. I had some friends who dumped $14,000 into a 2001 Sportster 883 and tried to sell it for close to that. They wound up getting $5000 for it after I found a buyer for them several years later...Then they bought a WAY overpriced used Fatboy (2003 for like $21,000) at the $tealership. It did have alot of chrome on it....

 

I paid a dealer $7800 for this bike, which has probably close to $4K in bling and etc... shows 19K on the odometer and runs strong, probably has at least a cam and cleaner.

I'll let you be the judge as to whether prices are down.

 

2003 with 11,000 miles for 5300

deals are out there just have to look.

 

You never get anything extra for add-ons.

Real sad I just saw a add on craigs list for a 2010 Street Glide a that they are trying to sell for $22,000, They originallly paid $29,000 with all of the add ons.

 

$7800 for an 8 yr old standard softail with 20K miles? NADA low retail on this bike is $6,730. Average looks to be right at 8K. Fair price - nothing to get overly excited about.

The 88's are down in resale after the 96's and 6 speed were released. Not to mention all the 2-4K miles garage queens on the market. This will happen after a new engine and tranny release.

Sharp looking standard though - Nice bike. hope your buddy puts more than 19K on it.

 

Not my buddy, it's my bike and I plan to ride it a lot. I dunno, any big Harley for under $10K seems like a deal to me, but what do I know. I do know that I prefer the carb'd 88 to the more recent engines for a lot of reasons, so I'm a happy camper.