Motorcycles for Sale

If you're smart, one of the many things you take into consideration when you purchase a new or new to you bike is resale value.   After all, you can't figure the cost to ride and maintain a bike without taking into account the replacement, trade-in and/or resale.

The bike you purchase may look hot and be really inexpensive, but if you can't give it away when you want to trade up or decide riding is not your thing than the cost of that bike goes way, way up.    The cost of any bike is the amount of money - in total - you spend to purchase and maintain that bike, minus the amount of money you should get back at trade in.

The bikes with the best resale value will probably always be the European exotics such as Ducati, Moto Guzzi, and MVGusta.   After that, the BMW and Harley Davidson also have great resale value.   Honda would be the next bike on the list, with Yamaha and Kawasaki neck and neck bringing up the rear.   Any other of the asian brands out there, for the most part, don't have a resale value to speak of.

And while often we steer clear of used vehicles, without a doubt, besides total destruction of a bike, the single biggest one time expense on any motorcycle is that first time it's driven off the lot.

So bottom line, you want the most for your money?    Buy a used motorcycle.   Let someone else eat the expense of driving that new bike off the showroom floor. And only shop for a bike that retains it's value, one of the European bikes (if you can afford them), a BMW, Harley or Honda.