Sell bike plan

[Iminquarantine]

Want to upgrade my F800GT to something with more poke, but it isn't urgent. I bought it as an approved used and it still has 10 months of BMW warranty on it (ie to August 2022). I did stupidly complain to the BMW dealer last time it was serviced, that it was hard to find neutral (common 'feature' of the bike I've since found), so now the service sheet has a recommendation to take the clutch apart for £££££ to see what is going on.

Anyway, thinking of selling it privately then when it goes, use the cash to buy maybe a used R1200RS, S1000XR or go back to a Japanese bike.

Question is..... taking into account the current inflated bike prices and shortage of bikes, when would be a good time to sell the bike? Now? After Christmas? Next spring? Has full luggage and would make a good year round commuter.

[black-k1]

The COVID factor is the big unknown here but traditionally. SH bike prices peak somewhere around mid June and bottom out around mid January.

My suggestion would be to find out what you'd like to replace it with (do lots of test rides and include the KTM SD1290GT) and find out what your bike is valued at for a trade in, then put it on eBay with that as the starting bid. What it sells for then is what it's worth. I'd also suggest selling the luggage separately. It'll likely make more doing that.

[Soloman Dodd]

Now or next Spring, but definitely not Christmas time.

[fred bloggs]

Soloman Dodd said:

Now or next Spring, but definitely not Christmas time.

Christmas holidays is a good time to list bikes. Plenty of people sat about dreaming of bikes. Auctions finishing boxing day usually do well I find.

[KTMsm]

fred bloggs said:

Christmas holidays is a good time to list bikes. Plenty of people sat about dreaming of bikes. Auctions finishing boxing day usually do well I find.

The opposite to my experience, I find auctions rarely make good prices unless it's for something very desirable.

AutoTrader etc used to (I don't know if they still do) force Dealers to advertise through the winter by giving year round discounts only if you advertised for 12 months, so you couldn't miss a month or two

Although I can only talk about the low / middle end, no idea what happens at the top of the market