I sold the V50II on BaT a month or so ago. The price wasn’t great, $3,499, but oh well. The buyer wired the funds immediately and had it picked up a week or two later for shipment across the country to California. He called me the other day when he got it saying he didn’t get the key. After a few minutes in the phone we figured out that he was looking at the gas cap and the knob key was in the switch. An hour or so later he called back, pretty angry, saying that the clutch was slipping so badly that it wouldn’t ride uphill. I really liked the buyer, who was a tech company owner who collects sports cars but is not really a motorcycle guy. The clutch has never slipped and I had gone through it in the refresh and ridden about a thousand miles before selling the bike, including two wonderful days of Vermont mountain strafing last summer. But anything is possible.
I told the buyer that I will buy it back and cover the shipping back home, provided that I get the title back unmarked and no one opens up or damages the bike. He is going to have a local BMW tech look at it and let me know. I get the sense that the purchase was impulsive and he may just want to unwind it. He just bought another sports car and spent more time talking about that.
I kind of feel like one of my kids called from summer camp and wants to come home. I’ll keep everyone posted.
