Buy Back Program

[ddaniels]

I am currently in the process of trying to buy back all the motorcycles I've owned in the past. Well, it seems like it anyway. A year and a half ago I bought back the FZ1 from the guy I sold it to. And today, I took delivery via Uship of the GSX1100G I sold to Scott up in Michigan after buying it back. Honestly I'm elated to have it back. Great bike. I only sold it because my head was turned by that evil ZX1100 Ninja I had to have in order to scratch that certain itch. After riding the Ninja to the Traveling Picnic I found out it wasn't for me.

I asked Scott if he was interested in selling it back in case I couldn't get the problems with the FZ1 resolved. I didn't expect a yes answer. So, if the fizzy turns out ok, I'll have to decide which one to keep. No room for both. I think.

[Redman]

The GK next?

How was uship?

[ddaniels]

Uship was fine. Paid $190 ish from Detroit area to Dayton.

[Steve]

$190?

Your house to Scott's house and back is right at 400 miles.

My van gets about 18 mpg with a trailer. That's 22 gallons of gas.

Gas is roughly 2.30 anywhere along the way, so that would be $51 for fuel.

If you value your personal time at less than $17.50 per hour, it would be cheaper to go get it, not accounting for wear and tear on the vehicles.

I'd say that $190 to ship it was probably worth it.

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[ddaniels]

If I had a vehicle capable of carrying a motorcycle I would have gone and gotten it myself. Unfortunately I don't. None of them has a hitch. I priced renting a truck and trailer from Uhaul and it was about $250. Trust me, I did the math.

[ddaniels]

I believe Scott paid around $350 to take it from my house to his so I don't feel so bad.

[bwringer]

Nice! And yeah, that uShip shipping amount is sort of a no-brainer. You can burn a lot of gas and time fetching bikes.

I don't know that I'd want to buy any of my past bikes again. But I did once seriously consider buying another blue '83 GS850G with 100,000 fewer miles. It sort of felt weird to contemplate, and I dropped the idea.

[rphillips]

Hey dd, if you had gotten a ZRX1100 or 1200 instead of the ZX1100, you may have not bought the GSX1100G back. I really like my 1100g, but this ZRX is really fun & comfortable, very light feeling, sporty looking, agile, for me it really does everything right. The GSX1100G is mainly for when the wife is with me, she likes the back rest. Hey, Congrats.

[LAB3]

Being a road trip kinda guy I'd have ridden the grey dog to get the bike and then rode it home. Hitch hiking there would be another option but doesn't usually work real well near cities, that's best left for secondary roads in the country.

[bobgroger]

Being a road trip kinda guy I'd have ridden the grey dog to get the bike and then rode it home. Hitch hiking there would be another option but doesn't usually work real well near cities, that's best left for secondary roads in the country.

I bought a car located in Texas in November. Shipping with Montway to Washington state was WAY less than the plane ticket and 4 days of missed work, about $900. Once picked up it was 4 days to cover 2200 miles and deliver to my door, no damage, not even very dirty when it arrived. I also had a bike shipped from Indiana to Washington a couple years ago, haulbikes.com had a $500 anywhere to anywhere special. Came in a purpose built 2 level enclosed trailer. Took nearly a month, but they have a route to deliver, then pickup on the way back to a central location. They load it on another truck and repeat. Well worth it to me.