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Friday, August 24, 2007

Used Motorcycle Buyers Guide (Part 6)

Trade Secret Tip #5:

At NAZA Showroom

New Version 5,431.101 just released!

Some motorcycle models just keep getting built year after year for a dozen years or more with slight "improvements" to keep it up to date sometimes. This is a tricky tip and can be good or bad depending on the revision history of the model.

This is where you as a buyer have to play detective and figure out the history of the models and what changes took place. You may discover that some years are much better than others and some years you avoid like the plague.

If they are still using basically the same engine for 10+ years and they "increased" horsepower by 5hp, what did the do to do that? If the bike lost 25 lbs in 10 years, where did they shave it off from? What did it loose or gain along the way?

source TMW

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