Wildguzzi.com
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dxhall on July 25, 2021, 12:17:58 PM
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I thought this was a nice build. I liked the tubeless spokes. Whats it worth?
https://cosprings.craigslist.org/mcd/d/colorado-springs-1998-moto-guzzi-v11/7355856014.html
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what a beauty. i am in love.
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Very nice machine.
IMHO, priced very attractively, considering all of the work done.
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This bike is at a consignment dealer here in town; sold one of my bikes there last month. If anybody is interested I would be willing to check it out [but maybe for myself first!]
Good looker IMHO.
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Mark @Moto Guzzi Classics will build you one
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What did the consignment dealer charge you? Im thinking about consigning my Sportster.
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What did the consignment dealer charge you? Im thinking about consigning my Sportster.
$100 to detail bike and place on floor [up front fee]. Consignment fee varies somewhat depending on sales price but mine was $500 on a $5995 sale. Bike sold the first day to someone who came in to look a totally different type of bike and bought mine instead. That wouldn't have happened on craigslist as he didn't even know what the bike [BMW F800R] was before stopping in to look at a Honda Blackbird. The dealer also offer financing which is a plus. With all the hassle on craigslist these days I felt it was worth it.
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What did the consignment dealer charge you? Im thinking about consigning my Sportster.
Usually, the consignment rates are about 10%-12%, in my experience, and that's fair (IMHO), because the dealer floors the bike, and does all the nationwide marketing and paperwork.
At the end, you just go pick up the check or $CASH$.
A few years ago, I sold my 1978 Honda GL1000 ("naked Goldwing"), locally this way, and my buddy recently sold his excellent BMW K75 this way as well.
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...and by the way, that V11 Cafe in Colorado Springs is very nice, and "not too spendy", given all the work that has been done. :thumb: :boozing: :cool: :wink: :smiley:
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Stopped by that shop today. Some nice bikes for sale and the staff seems knowledgeable and friendly . They said someone from California is looking at the Guzzi, anyone here?
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I thought Id put the Sportster on Craigslist for a couple days before taking it to a consignment place. It sold in one day for a good price. My CL ad for the Guzzi SPIII, on the other hand not a single response.
Im not sure what inference to draw from this. Lack of sophistication of motorcycle-buying public? Poor taste, generally? Im reminded again that the most popular television show in 1963 was The Beverly Hillbillies. Maybe things never change after all.
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What is this thing a V11 engine in a Tonti frame?
Looks odd to me, was the V11 not a broadsump? It's got an older style sump and no oil cooler take offs, so has all that got junked?
Rocker covers look more like a LM III, or 1000 than V11 and it looks like a five speed box on the trannie
Conventional forks too, were the V11s not USD?
It does have FI, bit odd IMHO, although overall a nice build (for yet another cafe) but for once at a reasonable price
Not so keen on that flyscreen and chrome tank though, but that's just personal taste
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What is this thing a V11 engine in a Tonti frame?
Looks odd to me, was the V11 not a broadsump? It's got an older style sump and no oil cooler take offs, so has all that got junked?
Rocker covers look more like a LM III, or 1000 than V11 and it looks like a five speed box on the trannie
Conventional forks too, were the V11s not USD?
It does have FI, bit odd IMHO, although overall a nice build (for yet another cafe) but for once at a reasonable price
Not so keen on that flyscreen and chrome tank though, but that's just personal taste
It was a '98 EV - all Tonti. Tank is from a V7 Racer, that's why it's chrome.
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The EV etc were also called V11 and I think that's what this is. Being a 1998 also says a Tonti frame bike was the basis, V11 Sport didn't come around until '99. The forks and dash light bezel in chrome also looks like an EV . That big old p8 computer probably under the hump?
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Ahh so got my models mixed up, thanks guys, I'm totally ignorant of the cruiser range of bikes, so it was really a Cali
Got caught out with the V11 designation, which seems to have been applied a bit too liberally
Quick check of the specs seems to indicate that it would still throw out a decent amount of power for the road, well enough for my advancing years.
Still don't like that tank though :grin: