Thank you Ride Magazine

[shugie]

Review of older 1200Gs and their merits in Ride Magazine this month, I had a brief look at the article lurking in the newsagents, rather than pay actual cash for the magazine.

Reasonably fair comments, apart from highlighting the final drive problem in such a way as to indicate it's inevitable on all the early bikes. But the annoying thing is them setting 4K as the price for the older GSs, going to he hard to get more than that now I suspect.

 

[Bones]

4K sounds about right for an 04 1200 with 40K miles and corrosion. I'd be happy taking 5K for my 06

 

[Big_Steve64]

I doubt anyone will take any notice of Ride magazine. When it was first published the strapline was:
Ride - we tell it like it is. - Not anymore you don't

If you dig down into what they say about bikes and even kit now, it is recycled from somewhere else. There are very few Bike journo's I have any respect for.
Kevin Ash, Steve Rose, Trevor Franklin & Chris Moss are about as far as it goes. I also really respect Luke Wilkins - from You Tube Motorcycle diaries, although the has sold out now to the bike channel.
Just have a look at MCN's video tests, absolute tripe. Adam Child is as clueless as you can get. If it doesn't accelerate like a Hayabusa and handle like a GP bike he thinks it's shite. The great British biking public have moved on to be more in line with our European cousins. The British biking media are still in the world of Fireblades and R1's. I reckon any GS 1200 with less than 60k should fetch 4.5k. Don't forget the Europeans are still buying our used stock. I have sold quite a bit of stuff after a clearout on eBay lately. (Mostly Harley stuff) Most bidders were from other European countries. I couldn't believe the prices I was getting. 80% of new price in some cases.

As it has always been, a bikes value can be arrived at by what similar condition bikes are selling for. This is often decided by supply and demand.
There are lots of GS's around now, but lots of buyers too.

 

[stever1]

I doubt anyone will take any notice of Ride magazine. When it was first published the strapline was:
Ride - we tell it like it is. - Not anymore you don't

If you dig down into what they say about bikes and even kit now, it is recycled from somewhere else. There are very few Bike journo's I have any respect for.
Kevin Ash, Steve Rose, Trevor Franklin & Chris Moss are about as far as it goes. I also really respect Luke Wilkins - from You Tube Motorcycle diaries, although the has sold out now to the bike channel.
Just have a look at MCN's video tests, absolute tripe. Adam Child is as clueless as you can get. If it doesn't accelerate like a Hayabusa and handle like a GP bike he thinks it's shite. The great British biking public have moved on to be more in line with our European cousins. The British biking media are still in the world of Fireblades and R1's. I reckon any GS 1200 with less than 60k should fetch 4.5k. Don't forget the Europeans are still buying our used stock. I have sold quite a bit of stuff after a clearout on eBay lately. (Mostly Harley stuff) Most bidders were from other European countries. I couldn't believe the prices I was getting. 80% of new price in some cases.

As it has always been, a bikes value can be arrived at by what similar condition bikes are selling for. This is often decided by supply and demand.
There are lots of GS's around now, but lots of buyers too.

The bike channel ?. Tell me more please.

 

[Keith Chapman]

The bike channel ?. Tell me more please.

Sky 203, i think. I gave it a chance when it first appeared, 10 minutes was enough for me.

 

[Big_Steve64]

The bike channel ?. Tell me more please.

It's Luke's online website / tv show http://bikechannel.com/
I am liking Suzy Taylor