Bird, too good to be true?

[Pow-Lo]

Thanks all. Don’t think I’m either but we’ll find out! Looking to get a FI bird 2002 onwards with around 20-30k on the clock. Either blue, black or silver. I hear red is just too slow!!

Red's gay. Fact.

 

[andyBeaker]

Red's gay. Fact.

And the colour of your car is.......

 

[Pow-Lo]

And the colour of your car is.......

Sunset Orange Metallic

 

[andyBeaker]

Sunset Orange Metallic

Aka 'red'

 

[Pow-Lo]

Aka 'red'

If you're colour blind, yes. To non-visually challenged people, it's orange.

 

[Toast]

It was last MOT's on the 17th October last year and the MOT history tells a tale of a bike used very little annually since it was new; GOT to be worth a look, the MOT history reads well, check it yourself YY04VJC at https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/ ""providing"" I've managed to read the reg correctly off the log book's TINY print in the picture !!!!

 

[Me!]

Are you trying to convince us or yourself.....

 

[Farleigh]

There I was thinking to give this one a miss...
Last service was 20/10/2017 at 15998 miles and bike has a lock change... Am sure there will be more birds around the corner.

 

[Me!]

Where are you?

 

[Jaws]

Thanks all. Don’t think I’m either but we’ll find out! Looking to get a FI bird 2002 onwards with around 20-30k on the clock. Either blue, black or silver. I hear red is just too slow!!

I really would not worry about mileage Farleigh.. Its a bit irrelevant and can limit your search..
Anything with less than 1.5 MILLION miles will be fine !
Look at condition and history.. And try to avoid anything that has been serviced by a Honda main dealer. I spent a great deal of my time from 2000 to 2014, when I retired, fixing bikes that main stealers had 'looked after' !!

 

[andyBeaker]

I really would not worry about mileage Farleigh.. Its a bit irrelevant and can limit your search..
Anything with less than 1.5 MILLION miles will be fine !
Look at condition and history.. And try to avoid anything that has been serviced by a Honda main dealer. I spent a great deal of my time from 2000 to 2014, when I retired, fixing bikes that main stealers had 'looked after' !!

I totally agree john, and indeed I bought my first Bird in similar circumstances, but at £3k it is waaaaaay overpriced..............

 

[Jaws]

I totally agree john, and indeed I bought my first Bird in similar circumstances, but at £3k it is waaaaaay overpriced..............

It may well be but it is not you, me, or any single individual that drives market forces, and once again we are seeing Bird prices rise

 

[Me!]

I agree John. Two in my garage. Both are in exceptional condition. That said my C90 cub of the same age is hopefully going the same way !

 

[Jaws]

I agree John. Two in my garage. Both are in exceptional condition. That said my C90 cub of the same age is hopefully going the same way !

Dunno about the C90, but the C50 ( Cub ) is def going up.
4 years ago sold one to an Italian museum for £2.5k

 

[andyBeaker]

It may well be but it is not you, me, or any single individual that drives market forces, and once again we are seeing Bird prices rise

Agreed.

In fairness, the original post was 'is it too good to be true'.

In my view it isn't......... at that price!! Plenty Birds out there without lining a dealers pockets for a bike without warranty.