poRkyPine's Harley

[famousguy]

Another heart breaker today. I have been asked to sell my brother's Harley. Glad to help my sister in law in any way I can, but some things are just not easy.

He talked about buying a Harley for a few years. Finally bought a 2010 Heritage Softail Classic and the very end of last summer. He road it 74 miles and then passed away a few weeks ago.

She called the dealer and thought maybe they would want to buy it. Now I know they need to make money, and she figured she would maybe take a big hit from the dealer, but they offered her $10500. Half of what he paid for it......

 

[windingtrailgal]

So sorry about your brother. How sad he finally got such an awesome bike and then so few miles to enjoy it! Not how that should go!!

What a crock that the dealer offered that.

Cindy

 

[Firecatguy]

wow sorry to hear this famousguy......I will check around I know guys looking for a bike.......can you post a pic? color?

dont goto the dealer.....you could post it in a local biker mag also.....hold a raffle to help his wife with bills.....many many ways to move the bike...its bike season

 

[dvision]

Bike

Post it on here in the classified section. Its that time of year. You might also try craigslist.

 

[StreetnSnow]

FWIW, I've had good luck with Harley Classifieds, & HDMotorcyclesforsale.

I've also used Cycle Trader with pretty good results, but I've only sold sport bikes using their site and magazine.

As others have suggested, early spring is about the ideal time to sell.

 

[wisyooper1]

Not defending the dealer, but as a long-time harley owner, I am familar with the dealerships. They are required to take a fixed number of new bikes from Harley every year. Even though your brother's bike is new, it can't be sold as new and the dealers take a lot of trades on new bikes, meaning they usually have a floor full of used bikes.

The economy is making it much tougher on anyone looking to sell a Harley - Harley's are very expensive for the technology that you get. I can't see a Heritage at $21k new, they are usually around $17-18k new. So the $10k that they are offering is not out of line for a sale to a dealer - I would think you could see for at least $15k to private party...but, again, the economy may require more time to find that buyer.

 

[harvest1121]

Ebay has a free classified I just sold my snowmobile on it for free.

 

[snow_monkey]

Another heart breaker today. I have been asked to sell my brother's Harley. Glad to help my sister in law in any way I can, but some things are just not easy.

He talked about buying a Harley for a few years. Finally bought a 2010 Heritage Softail Classic and the very end of last summer. He road it 74 miles and then passed away a few weeks ago.

She called the dealer and thought maybe they would want to buy it. Now I know they need to make money, and she figured she would maybe take a big hit from the dealer, but they offered her $10500. Half of what he paid for it......

I took a harley to a dealer and they told me it was rough and offered 4,900 the next day another dealer wrote a check for 8,000.