1150rt market

[aal3]

I've had my 2004 1150 rt for sale for over a couple of months now, on consignment at a local shop, apparently without much interest. It's perfect and with low miles (about 17,000)and a power commander. They've got some other rt's that have been there even longer. I thought these were pretty popular bikes. Maybe the 1200rt's are just what people want now. I think the market is slow for most bikes, but, any thoughts on the current 1100 / 1150 rt market?

[Mr. Frank]

With BMWs you often have to cast a much wider net than a local dealer to find a buyer. Use the MOA ON and the IBMWR Marketplace for openers. MOA may also have an online outlet.

[PapaJ]

You might also want to try Craig's list or Cycle Trader, BMWs are a specialty bike so you have to find the right buyer, also spring is the best time to sell a bike.

[eddd]

With BMWs you often have to cast a much wider net than a local dealer to find a buyer. Use the MOA ON and the IBMWR Marketplace for openers. MOA may also have an online outlet.

 

+1.

 

I live in deep south Texas and traveled to the Phoenix area to purchase my RT, about 1200 miles one way. I searched from Florida to Arizona and as far north as Minnesota.

 

I used Craigs, Trader-online, IBMWR Marketplace, Mark's Motos, as well as this site.

[BluegrassPicker]

I live in MN, and ebay-ed up mine from Florida...

[Capt_Ron]

I think the time of year does have some impact on sales. I sold my LT a couple of years ago in the fall and it was slow going. Took more than a month. Had an 1100RT that I put up for sale last spring and it was gone in a week. Both were local sales. I handled the sale of the LT (craigslist) while the RT was moved by a dealership.

 

Ron

[swilson]

I surf the for sale ads almost daily. Seems to me the price on R1150RTs did drop noticably over the last few months. YMMV.

[tazplas]

Well down here in Taz, they are as rare as rockin' horse shite.

I rang every dealer here and finally tracked one down that was a 3 hr drive away. Needless to say, 1 x 3 hr one way drive to check it out and a another 3 hr drive to pick it up. Total of 12hrs driving for me and 6 hrs for the wife to get the bike i wanted. 18hrs total combined on the road for the best branded bike in the world. My next stop was to go interstate as other have done.

I suppose what i am trying to say is that those who want a 1150RT, will sooner or later search it out and hunt it down like i did.

Good luck with the selling

 

Steve

[Seeker130]

have had my 03RT for sale since the spring, have had calls, have had some come look, have had some test ride, have some offers, I still have it.

Im certinly not going to give it away.

mines been on cycle trader.

Good luck.

[njboy]

Try e-bay. You get a huge number of people from around the country and Canada looking at your bike. I just sold a Honda 919 on e-bay that was previously going no where on craigs.

[aal3]

I suppose I just have to be patient. I have lowered the price some. I've sold several bikes in the last few years, one, a moto guzzi, through an enthusiast site, and the others on consignment. One on consignment sold within a week, and another one took about 7 or 8 months. I'm in California, so it should be sellable to anyone here, even though it may be getting to be an off part of the year. By the way, it's listed now at about $10,500. Anyone think that's still too much?

[STICKMAN]

I bought mine with 5300 miles out the door for $10k with tons of extras in the L.A. area over a year ago. Unless yours is new drop the price since mine was spotless.

[tazplas]

If you ship it over here, i would buy it tomorrow. What with the exchange rate and all, it makes it a very attractive buy.

As i posted before, Rare As over here. People like to hang onto those Beamers over here (Oz).

 

Steve

[philbytx]

Ahhh! That's the "market" giving you a message for you to keep it

[mefly2]

With BMWs you often have to cast a much wider net than a local dealer to find a buyer. Use the MOA ON and the IBMWR Marketplace for openers. MOA may also have an online outlet.

Likely I had my old RT priced too low ... it sold in two days on the IBMWR site!