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Looks like my upcoming wedding is getting more expensive than originally planned, so I'm looking at ways to free up some cash. I'm thinking of selling my 2003 Speedmaster (Red/Black = Fastest), with 12K miles on it. Just had the 12K service. Mods - AI removal kit, Freak installed, Backrest w/luggage rack, Triumph Touring Seat (also original Gunfighter), Short TORs, Nology Coils, After-market coil wires, 55w halogen driving lights in between the fork tubes, Small National Pride screen for summer, LARGE (Full Faring-sized) Plexiglass screen for colder months, large hard saddle bags and Easy-Brackets (not installed), smallish tank bag, large tail pack that fits over backrest. Have pair of small hard saddle-bags that I would include should a buyer want them.
Bike isn't showroom perfect, but is still in great condition. Runs like a Sexually Assaulted Simean. Older pics are in my gallery.

What do you folks think would be a fair and decent sales price would be? I appreciate your input.

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Let me know what you come up with, I have an old army buddy in Germany right now that I'm trying to find a reasonable America or Speedy for. He's back in the states in July, I could come check it out for him or pick it up and keep till he's home.

I think you are nutz to sell the bike, unless you have another one.

Cut back on the wedding .I have so many customers that have sold cars for reasons like that and regret it years later.Just my opinion but you shouldn't have to do that

Sounds to me like you are already wearing your ring where it should not be.

Sell the bike to help pay for a wedding?

from me as well or you may be in the near future.

You gotta do what you gotta do, But please. I know a weeding is one of the biggest days in any girls life but sit down with your intended and see if there is another way.

Find a way to keep the bike.

If you're willing to sell your bike to get married, you shouldn't have had a bike to begin with...regardless of what kind it is.

Well Mark, with that kind of an attitude, don't expect to be invited to the ceremonies any time soon!!!

Mike here is asking for our help! The last line in his post says it all....

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What do you folks think would be a fair and decent sales price? I appreciate your input.

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And so Mike, to answer your question...

I'd give ya 2 cents for that fiancee o' yours.

(oh, about the bike?...like Fleece and Mark said above, I think I'd find a way to KEEP the friggin' BIKE if I were you!!!)

Traditionally, isn't the brides family supposed to pay for the wedding?

Keep the bike, at least til you get another!Bike that is

gals day should pay for it,
the money he saves in the long run will be worth it.

My wife and mother-in-law tried that crap about how expensive everything would be. I cracked down and micromanaged and we did it for much less that they were looking at!

Michael,

Cut down on the flowers, ditch the expensive dress, downsize the guest list, make your own cake, and keep the bike!

You weren't really expecting a different response here, were you? You gotta do whatcha gotta do!

I'm getting married in August. My future mother-in-law is footing 80% of the bill, and I bought a new bike. You have to keep the bike!!!!

Michael, it sets a bad precedent. You give up something important to you to make your wife happy. If she's the right one, you'll be together the rest of your lives.
Do you think this will be the only time you will be asked to give up something to make her happy?
Tell her the extra wedding expenses will bring fleeting joy for one day, and half the guests will be too drunk to remember them.
But the motorcycle will bring years of enjoyment together.

BA Ladies, any of you want to chime in on this one?

Didn't say I am definitely going to sell the Speedy, just looking at ways to free up some cash, and selling the bike is a possibility (no matter how far-fetched). There are also other avenues of cash generation that I'm considering that I won't expand on at this time. Her folks ARE pitching in, but they aren't rich. We have already pared down a lot of options that brought the cost down from the "Astronomical" category into the "Still Very Expensive" realm. She is important enough to me that I definitely want her to have a Very Memorable Wedding Day, but I really don't want to put the balance on a 'card' and be paying for it for the next 6 years. Kind of a ******-if-I-do-and-******-if-I-don't situation. BTW- SHE doesn't want me to sell the bike so please don't think it's her idea. I just like to know what ALL the options are, and I won't overlook anything if I can help it.
Along with the wedding, we are also looking really hard at a few 20+ acre parcels of land to buy. We figure a homestead in the NW Arkansas hills would be pretty sweet. Some of those acres might even be useful as a "Motorcyclist Friendly" campground with an assortment of plumbed cabins and "Pitch a Tent" spots at some point. The "Bikes, Blues and Bar-B-Que Rally" held in NW Arkansas every October is growing larger every year and the accomodations are sparse to say the least.
I really appreciate the inputs you all have given, even if they didn't really answer my question. I hope everyone here has a wonderful New Year.

Bikes last, marriages don't. Elope. Save the bike.

I know it's been said already, ( didn't bother to read the responses, had to put in my $.02) I was stuck in a cage for 11 years for exactly this reason, I thought I couldn't afford the bike and the bills, I wasn't smart enough to say NO! DO NOT GET RID OF YOUR BIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK. now I've read the whole thread. I still say Don't do it! You're Active Duty, that, in and of itself cuts costs. Base Chapel, NCO Club, Ya see where I'm going w/ this? You can give her an Unforgettable Wedding, especially if Y'all leave the Chapel on your bike!, for little or next to no money. Other than her dress, and the reception, you have no costs, and surely her folks can buy the dress!?! Think long and hard before you give up your bike.

HEY! Even CHEAPER: Hop on a MAC charter to Nellis AFB outside Vegas.

Have Elvis marry you two there!!!

Now, how much can THAT cost???

AND I'm almost sure bigbill wouldn't mind actin' as your witness there either!

(no need to thank me...this stuff just comes to me out o' nowhere, ya know)

OOPS! My bad for not updating my profile. I retired from the AF last June, and she got out (after 6 years in) last May. Still, using the NCO Club still costs plenty, They are a profit-making entity these days.

C'mon, Dwight - Elvis? Hairy-chested fat guys with mutton-chops scare me....

Well dude! You didn't mention anything about this particular form of hirsuteaphobia BEFORE!!!

How was I to know???!!!

Never mind then!!!

(man...ya try to help someone and see what ya get?!!!)

Leaves me out as a witness too

Yep! I guess the last thing anybody wants to be known in Vegas as is a "witness", huh Bill?! I'd guess this would especially be a problem with those "old established members" of that community there, huh?!

(ya know, the government still has that "relocation" policy...maybe you could "disappear" to Iowa...those dudes will never find ya THERE!)

I dunno whatcher talkin about Dwight.
No.NO Guido... he's kidding around, see.

Go ask him. yeah.





psst dwight. i didn't tell him about the prescott place. ya might wanta visit for a couple o days.

Hey! If Guido rides(and I really don't care what brand of bike it is, BTW) have him show up there in mid-May TOO!!!

Tell him I'll try to find a place for him in the newly allocated "Non-Farting Section".

(see: "Dwight:HELP" thread in the Rally Forum for details)

So the slippery slope begins...........OK,I'm an old romantic, that being said,,,,,,,she's supposed to be in love with you not "the day" and it is for the both of you,,,,,not all the others who just want another excuse to dress up and/or PARTY. If I was gonna do it again,that woman would know me well enough to be happy get'n hitched with the least amount of fanfare. The day will fade but hopefully your feelings won't. THE BIKE STAYS,,,,,,,other incidental stuff goes!!!

I see all the women on the site are being closed mouth about this. Time for me to chime in.

DON'T DO IT!

Instead of paying a minister, have one of your close friends become ordained online or whatever and do the ceremony and save some bucks there, have an outdoor wedding in a place thats special for you two. In the spring, you wouldnt need to buy flowers. How about wedding cupcakes? You can have a wide variety of flavors, and would probably be way cheaper than a cake.

Tell her you're going to borrow the money for the wedding so it can be your first common debt and it'll be just like a bike payment.

THAT would be our 'second' common debt - we bought a house together last March.....

Sorry, I say you shouldn't do it. IF you really love your bike, then it will be a source of resentment later on down the road, say for instance the first time hard financial times come up. Agreed, this is a big day for your bride, BUT from personal experience, my wife would cut my hand off if I tried to sell my bike for any reason (other than no longer wanting to ride). I've actually contemplated it due to financial circumstances, and she's always been the one to forbid it and argue me out of it. IF worse came to worse and you could afford it, go for a title loan or something like that. A lot of those places are iffy, but read the conditions and if they're fair, then you get the money and keep the bike. Just a thought. Whatever you end up doing though, it should be a decision that you BOTH make together. I haven't read the whole thread, but have you broached the subject with your fiancee to see what she thinks about you sacrificing your bike just to pay for a one day fling (the harsh reality is that it is exactly that, a one day fling)?

The HORROR , the HORROR . ( Col. Kurtz ) The absolute , pure and crystalline horror . Now DAT'S whatithinkaboutit .

Well Paula...I'm certainly glad ONE OF US can keep their head clear about this whole thing!

(why...she'd only want me for my TRIUMPH!!! I never THOUGHT o' THAT!!!)