Auctions

[Drawweight]

This https://www.wilsonsauctions.com/auctions/car/Aucti... came up on my Facebook page.

I’ve known friends but cars at auction but oddly enough never known anyone buy a bike. They look like trade ins and ex finance.

Anyone done it and would you recommend it.

Disclaimer..I’m not interested in buying just curious.

[snagzie]

I'd be going just to see what it's like.... but it's also dangerous to my wallet!

[hunt123]

Some years ago i went to a bike and car auction in Southend, hired a trailer all prepared to transport a bike back home. Glad i went in person, the bike i was interested in wasn't what i thought it might be value/condition wise, came away with nothing. I'd say all the usual things apply to bike auctions as do to cars auctions - do thorough checks. If buying online then personally i'd only go for very low miles bikes that aren't that old with service history to hopefully minimize the chances of faults being present.

[Krikkit]

hunt123 said:

I'd say all the usual things apply to bike auctions as do to cars auctions - do thorough checks. If buying online then personally i'd only go for very low miles bikes that aren't that old with service history to hopefully minimize the chances of faults being present.

At least with this one you can HPI it in advance, I doubt there's anything special about them though, just ex-finance and part-ex bikes being punted on as they're of little interest.

[KTMsm]

Most Dealers retail the part ex's if they're any good and ebay it if they don't fit their profile

The Dealers I know only send the stuff to Auction that they don't want to be associated with

Obviously not all do this but you need to go in eyes open

A recent post saw a lad buy a bike that didn't have a spark - he discovered the crank sensor had been unbolted

Once bolted in, he discovered the reason it was unbolted - because the engine was buggered