2018 Fireblades, a total bargain?

[ddom]

Ridden a couple of these and was quite shocked to see them around the 8-9K mark? Obviously the base model but surely a bit of a steal when you see Gixxer K6's up for 6-7K?

[Rubin215 QFSM]

Any bike is only worth what someone will pay for it.

I keep saying to people who want to sell their bike or think they are being offered too low a price to go on ebay and look at completed items, not the ones still for sale.
Look at what they sell for, not what people want for them.

[ddom]

Agreed, but 2015 S1000RR's sell for 10-12K all day long. It really seems like a forgotten bike, although only 3 years old?

[Rubin215 QFSM]

It's maybe hedge-fund managers selling them cheap.

Buy them all up and they will be kicking themselves...

[moto_traxport]

ddom said:

Ridden a couple of these and was quite shocked to see them around the 8-9K mark? Obviously the base model but surely a bit of a steal when you see Gixxer K6's up for 6-7K?

Presumably you’re also looking at the one owner 3k miles 2018 SP model at £9995 through Chiswick Honda on eBay at the moment. I could trade my 98 R1 in for it!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2018-Honda-CBR1000RR-Fi...

[ddom]

moto_traxport said:

Presumably you’re also looking at the one owner 3k miles 2018 SP model at £9995 through Chiswick Honda on eBay at the moment. I could trade my 98 R1 in for it!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2018-Honda-CBR1000RR-Fi...

Yes. the bikes on the PCP deals on the rebound?

[moto_traxport]

ddom said:

Yes. the bikes on the PCP deals on the rebound?

A mate bought the SP2 version (for £23k!) three years ago. A large part of me fancies buying it just to annoy him.

We could succeed where John McGuinness and Guy Martin dismally failed!!

[Ho Lee Kau]

Same in Switzerland.
Even SP go for low price.
Same will happen with the current model.

[ddom]

moto_traxport said:

A mate bought the SP2 version (for £23k!) three years ago. A large part of me fancies buying it just to annoy him.

We could succeed where John McGuinness and Guy Martin dismally failed!!

[moto_traxport]

Ho Lee Kau said:

Same will happen with the current model.

Not sure about that. Isn’t the latest one a complete redesign and liable to be much better in racing?

For the average rider the earlier version would be more than good enough to pootle around on the road with the odd trackday.

[Biker's Nemesis]

I'd rather poke my eyes out

[Cosworth4388]

The ones around the 8-9k mark are Ex Ron Haslam Race school bikes , if you look it’s always mentioned in the description.

[moto_traxport]

ddom said:

moto_traxport said:

We could succeed where John McGuinness and Guy Martin dismally failed!!

Biker's Nemesis said:

I'd rather poke my eyes out

And that bloke ^^^ all the greats. It’s not looking good - going off the idea now.

[Walter Sobchak]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I'd rather poke my eyes out

I did briefly consider an SP model to swap from my Ducati to as they were great value, but I came to my senses and bought an R1M instead.

[Skin981]

Are k6s really worth £6/7000 might sell mine at that price had it from new

[Pazuzu]

That's similar to mine - sold for £5600 in 2010 and probably still be worth that now. I thought good one's were still £5-6k although they may have gone up.

For £6-7k it would need to be exceptional.

Still one of the finest ever sportsbikes IMO.

[Pazuzu]

Was an awesome bike

[Long'un]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I'd rather poke my eyes out

Agreed. They are cheap for a reason!

[Triaguar]

Long'un said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

I'd rather poke my eyes out

Agreed. They are cheap for a reason!

Go on I'll bite......why?

[Skin981]

Has got quick shifter ecu reflash never seen rain fancy a tuono v4 factory now so might put it up for sale in spring and see what happens 🤷‍♂️