How come people shudder when they mention mileage?
47,000 miles for 15 years old is only about 3000 miles a year. The average mileage for a vehicle used to be 12,000.
Even if a 15 year old bike was ridden for just 7,000 miles a year, (still not a lot) the clocks would show at 105,000 miles. My current bike (the storm) has just gone over the 35,200 miles, and its V reg, 1999/2000 reg - so, is 15 years old. Will it be worth bugger all when I come to sell it with another 20 or 30 thousand on it?
47,000 is nowt for a modern motor these days. I visited to a bike shop a few weeks back, and they asked (for such a clean bike), what the mileage was? I told him, and he had the intake of breath through the teeth. WTF? Yet, they had a 2004 Blackbird there with just over
200,000 miles on it. Been all over Europe, full tour kit, and used as it was designed. And yet it sold in less than 2 weeks in the showroom.
I pay no attention to mileage on a vehicle. As long as it is mechanically sound, has been well looked after, and has a decent amount of service history with
considerate and careful owners, then I'll take a punt.
On the other hand, you could get an older bike (say a 35 year old CB750), that has only 2000 genuine miles and one owner from new. But the bike could look like sh1t from not being looked after, and every one of those short miles thrashed by a d1ckhead of an owner.
Your bike (as it is colour wise, cans and front end)
will appeal to a lot of folk, but it would have appealed to a lot more if in standard trim. Which it isn't, so there's no real point saying what it
could have fetched!
Wash it, wax it, polish the alloy and get her looking as best as (time costs nothing, but pays dividends). Having a clean bike (and a running one) can raise the price to a more reasonable level.
