TOG Valuation Z1000 please + potentially FS

Whatitsworth Mister?

Kawasaki Z1000 A6, 2006 (06 plate)
Silver, standard except for adjustable flip-up screen thing,
scottoiler, engine saver mushrooms
16K miles or thereabouts, FSH, very good condition, never dropped.
MOT due in a couple of months but it'll go straight though.

London

Rosners made a phone offer of about 3.5 on it as a part ex.

 

I think you might get 4.5 in great nick

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

 

All second-hand prices are going up, and the Continentals will
absolutely love this - they sell well over there. I wouldn't be
surprised if Rosner hasn't already got a Continental dealer connection.

But the Z1000 really isn't popular here. Not at all. I reckon £4k,
privately. I'd be surprised if it makes £4.5k.

What were you thinking of buying? Speed Triple? Street Triple?

 

But he does not live in Great Nick

 

Busa

 

Speed Triple. 4K is roughly what I expected, a bit more maybe. It's
not depreciated much

 

Groan.

 

Has it got the shotgun pipes?

 

Yes. It's this model:

www.raptorsandrockets.com/images/Kawasaki/2006_Kawasaki_Z1000_d1-008r.jpg

 

Keep the Zed.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:

Really? We sell every single one that comes in almost as soon as they
land with us, except the matt blue ones.

 

Try the Street as well. Seriously.

 

Used, they may find friends, I suppose. Kawasaki sure didn't sell many
new ones.

 

May well do, but I love the way litre bikes hurl themselves at the
horizon.

 

the way the price has held does tend to indicate some demand. I only
paid 4.5 for it (from Dobles) when it was 9 months old.

 

Interesting. That was some massive eraly depreciation, then.

I suppose the rulebook has gone out of the window, then. New bikes are
damned pricey - used ones get pricer too....

 

The new one is very popular, and after riding it I can see why

 

I paid 5 grand for mine with 441 miles on the clock and 6 weeks old. I was
offered 4 grand cash for it this weekend, but I'm not flogging it yet.

 

I wonder why the 750 is a bigger seller than the thou (in Europe)?
Apparently, Kwak have flogged over 6 and half thousand of 'em. No idea how
many thou's have sold though.

 

I read a French bike mag which said the 750 was the top-selling 'big'
road bike there.

The Thou? Well, it would have to be detuned for the weedy Frogs. Big
bikes aren't so popular there. Why have (and pay for) a Gixxer Thou when
it has to be detuned to (IIRC) 106bhp?