RGV250 VJ22 rear view please
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My restoration is 90% complete now but the infill around the rear light, I think should have the SUZUKI decal on it. Does anyone have an OEM photo please? It's the lighter blue colour scheme, dark blue and white tank with lighter blue stripe on, pink around headlight and on rear number areas.
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
supermono said:
My restoration is 90% complete now but the infill around the rear light, I think should have the SUZUKI decal on it. Does anyone have an OEM photo please? It's the lighter blue colour scheme, dark blue and white tank with lighter blue stripe on, pink around headlight and on rear number areas.
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
Taken from the back of my VG22.
Thanks! I'm pleased with the result, I'll get some more pics tomorrow when it's out getting the MOT.
So this is mine for the duration and this isn't any kind of advert because it's not for sale.
But in today's market what's a nice resto like this worth? All genuine and original plastics but painted by Dream Machine, none repaired from accident damage just resprayed, no broken lugs or anything. Matching numbers, engine solid with new genuine pistons etc. Powervalves serviced and properly cleaned. Exhausts blasted and ceramic coated in satin black, new oem silencers. New switchgear and unmarked speedo showing mph. Originally Italian import.
No obvious marks anywhere other than odd one on the frame, and bog standard with airbox/pipes/tubes/etc. It looks like a new bike.
May have been raced in the past but no crash damage anywhere -- engine covers just repainted but unmarked.
How much would you need to pay to buy one like this?
So this is mine for the duration and this isn't any kind of advert because it's not for sale.
But in today's market what's a nice resto like this worth? All genuine and original plastics but painted by Dream Machine, none repaired from accident damage just resprayed, no broken lugs or anything. Matching numbers, engine solid with new genuine pistons etc. Powervalves serviced and properly cleaned. Exhausts blasted and ceramic coated in satin black, new oem silencers. New switchgear and unmarked speedo showing mph. Originally Italian import.
No obvious marks anywhere other than odd one on the frame, and bog standard with airbox/pipes/tubes/etc. It looks like a new bike.
May have been raced in the past but no crash damage anywhere -- engine covers just repainted but unmarked.
How much would you need to pay to buy one like this?
Moulder said:
For me in terms of price I would want to know...
1/ Mileage
2/ History
With the mileage if you have new clocks do you have the old ones or any way to verify the mileage?
Aha a Trigger's Broom valuation 1/ Mileage
2/ History
With the mileage if you have new clocks do you have the old ones or any way to verify the mileage?
Some clocks in my parts bin show 4500kms. There's no history from Italy and most of the parts that wear are in the recycling or renewed. I'm not sure any serious valuation would be based on the number on the clocks, given the vast amount of restoration work done.
I'm in the middle of restoring my RGV. It's a UK bike with the 3 grills. I just got the Crank back from bdk this week, so the engine should be back together soon.
It was the 2nd bike I bought and the 1st after passing my test, so I have no plans to ever get rid.
The price people are asking for some of these is crazy now a days. I paid £800 for mine originally.
It was the 2nd bike I bought and the 1st after passing my test, so I have no plans to ever get rid.
The price people are asking for some of these is crazy now a days. I paid £800 for mine originally.
Okay, the point on the clocks was to show some traceability of what it may have had before you replaced them.
I would pay 6.5-7k for a UK low mileage white with blue stripes vj22.
This is only personal opinion but for me (and a few others I have spoken to) this is seen as the definitive vj22. On this basis I would want to knock off £500 for each of the following:
Being an import
Mileage not being verified
No service history
Less popular paint scheme
So for me, 4.5 to 5k. Point noted about the work you have done but if buying I would still want to know the mileage that all the peripherals still on the bike had done.
I would pay 6.5-7k for a UK low mileage white with blue stripes vj22.
This is only personal opinion but for me (and a few others I have spoken to) this is seen as the definitive vj22. On this basis I would want to knock off £500 for each of the following:
Being an import
Mileage not being verified
No service history
Less popular paint scheme
So for me, 4.5 to 5k. Point noted about the work you have done but if buying I would still want to know the mileage that all the peripherals still on the bike had done.
Cracking job mate, looks lovely, wouldnt mind that myself.
Buyers wont be worried about the mileage, of much more importance is evidence/receipts of a recent engine rebuild, strokers dont like being sat around for long periods of time, my 500 had done next to no miles but every engine seal in it was shot and the thing gummed up, my LC had 28,000 miles on it and was obviously well used but it was the "better" condition motor of the two.
I knocked the seller of my KR1 down as that had sat for 2.5 years since he rebuilt it without it turning a wheel, I expected the seals may need changing in that but luckily it was fine.
Re pricing, my friends RGV is a German import, no history, kmh clock , was rebuilt in 2015 and has done around 300-400 miles a year since, he was offered £7500 for it last year. He will be selling another German RGV250, which is a beaten about but was rebuilt over this Winter so the motor is sound , appears to have been tracked in its past but that evidence will all go if a new owner restors it, he is expecting around 3.5-4k for that.
Ultimately I think the buyer of these bikes will appreciate and pay good money for a sorted , well set up stroker , no matter what the speedo dial or V5 has on it.
Buyers wont be worried about the mileage, of much more importance is evidence/receipts of a recent engine rebuild, strokers dont like being sat around for long periods of time, my 500 had done next to no miles but every engine seal in it was shot and the thing gummed up, my LC had 28,000 miles on it and was obviously well used but it was the "better" condition motor of the two.
I knocked the seller of my KR1 down as that had sat for 2.5 years since he rebuilt it without it turning a wheel, I expected the seals may need changing in that but luckily it was fine.
Re pricing, my friends RGV is a German import, no history, kmh clock , was rebuilt in 2015 and has done around 300-400 miles a year since, he was offered £7500 for it last year. He will be selling another German RGV250, which is a beaten about but was rebuilt over this Winter so the motor is sound , appears to have been tracked in its past but that evidence will all go if a new owner restors it, he is expecting around 3.5-4k for that.
Ultimately I think the buyer of these bikes will appreciate and pay good money for a sorted , well set up stroker , no matter what the speedo dial or V5 has on it.
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