What would people say the going prices are for MC18's these days? Seems to be very very few out there let alone any for sale.
Regrettably mine will soon be for sale, well unless its only worth peanuts that is. I know what its cost me to get it to the condition its in and ideally would like that back.
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They are worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay. I love NSR's and think that they should be worth a lot more than they are sold for.

At the same time, if you ask an rgv or tzr owner the same question you will probably get the same answer.

I guess if you are looking to buy a 2t road bike you will most likely end up with an rgv. They are everywhere and are cheap as cow poo in paddock. If you have class and style you will end up with an NSR. If you see a tzr for sale, you may buy it or you may not, just depends how much spare time you have to find parts and repair it.

I would try to sell it for an amount that I felt comfortable with. Don't rip yourself off, but understand that it's not a gp championship winning collectable. Start at a good amount as they are an NSR and lower your price with urgency.

Personally I hope you get $50,000. After all they are the greatest bike of all time.

That's what I think anyway.

Andy

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Two for sale on a well known auction, and i know of two others for sale privately,so they are out there, seems the R5k is the more popular, but what are they worth?. Rob H has spent a fortune on his i believe and it certainly is a spanker, wouldnt want to geuss what he values that at. Unless you have a R6k Terra you got to be looking at anything from a grand to two and a half depending on condition, if its been a nut and bolt rebuild it could be fortunes. But at the end of the day its still only an 88 or 89 nsr, so you got to find someone who is gagging for one. Good luck with it.
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drunkn munky wrote:What would people say the going prices are for MC18's these days? Seems to be very very few out there let alone any for sale.

I'd say over the past 6 to 12 months all NSR prices have dropped a bit.
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Personlly I think the MC18's are the best but they don't demand the price of the other models.

Their prices have increased though compaired to what they were even 5 years ago.

I'd say a R5k is worth anywhere from £1000 to £2000 depending on condition. I've seen SP '18 advertised for much more but havn't seen many sell.
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I put mine on eBay recently for a valuation and the highest bid was £1300

I could have probably put more words in the description to have gotten a little bit more.

Depending on how much you've laid out it's probably worth waiting longer before selling. If you've spent less than £1500, you might be lucky, but a lot of guys are still suffering post recession
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Actually where i come from MC 18s sell for less than 1000 euros,truth is that there are very few that are in full working good condition but even those cant seem to fetch more than 1K.

I think Rob's spot on, and I wouldn't expect to see many R5K's go for much over £1500, no matter how good they are. Of course, there will be the odd "special case", but the money-makers will always be the R6K's. You can expect to put another £500~£1000 on any R5K price just for being an SP... but it would have to check up as a genuine one! I know StephenRC45's was a steal at the price he paid, and we'd all be suicidal if the rest of the NSR prices were based relatively to his R6K purchase price!

Likewise with the R2J and R4J, although the R4J isn't generally as sought after in my experience. It's nice to have one, but it's "just" an R with a set of Magteks really, and being 22 years old now, the likelihood of finding a good genuine original one is extremely remote. No doubt the rarest of NSR's now, but very under-spec'd.

Unfortunately for Rob, £1300 is par for the course for a really nice R2J. He'd be mad to sell it for that kind of money of course, but what it's worth to him and what it's worth, are two entirely different things!

Unfortunately for MC18 owners, the models of choice are MC21's and MC28. Both still look modern today, and both can fetch good money. The MC21 is the pick of the bunch, giving best value for money. The MC28 is over-rated and owners hate us for saying it, but truth hurts. It was never the bike it should've been, and it makes the money because [a] new buyers often don't know any better, or [b] know better but simply want the last of a generation. [a] is unfortunate, [b] is their perogative, but they are paying heavily for it... in some cases £2000 on top of an equivalent MC21 price!*

All in all, prices tend to start at about £500 for an OK MC16, and end about £5000 for a top MC28SP, and it's a pretty linear climb from bottom to top! Stick £700~£1000 on any price for a really really nice/SP bike!



Just my opinion, of course, and rough UK prices! US tends to be more expensive, and titled bikes even more so. Not sure about OZ. If someone wants to give a general appraisal I can add them to the data and publish a more comprehensive chart.

It's clear lately too, that the more standard looking a bike is, the more money it will command. The only exception to this often tends to be the allowance given for a set of stainless race chambers, but OEM bodywork/colours is certainly more desirable than anything else.

By the way, it was purely a "happy accident", the base line being so linear!

*I know this statement will get a few backs up, but let's keep it objective. I don't want to see any arguments about it in this thread!
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That seems fairly much the same here in Oz. The mc21 part is near spot on. You would be hard up trying to get 5000 pounds or $8500 for any mc28. I have never seen one sell for that price over here.

The 16/18 is quite close aswell. I've seen 18's advertised for 21 prices but they don't often sell. There is a person not far from me selling almost 3 18's for $3500 and they have been for sale for a while. 3 nsr's for $3500 is a good price but they are still there.

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The 28's often fetch pretty good money, but the really high prices are generally dealer prices, not private sales. Quite how the dealers manage to find customers willing to pay so much (especially when Robins mint MC28 sat in Classifieds for so long) is quite beyond me though. We've seen photos of a few "mint" dealer MC28's, and they weren't that good, or even that original!
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bandit_7 wrote: There is a person not far from me selling almost 3 18's for $3500 and they have been for sale for a while. 3 nsr's for $3500 is a good price but they are still there.

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Are you holding out on me Andy?!?!?!?

My 2c.. A bike is worth what ever someone is willing to pay for it, personally I paid $2000AUD for a road registered MC18 and $1500 for a race MC21 with a box full of spares worth around $2500..

There is no way I'd pay the prices shown in the chart posted above, our dollar is double the pound atm..

But as Andy mentioned about the 3 bikes sitting for long periods un sold, I've also seen single MC18's and MC21's go unsold for long periods when they ask for around $2000-$3000 AUD..
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The dealers prices part is a fair call. They are always overpriced.

I guess we don't see a great deal of nsr's or any any 2t road bike for that matter (except the crap rs 125 + 250) for sale at a dealers because I think they are required to give a 3 month warranty with all registered vehicles. And lets face it, alot can happen in 3 months.

You only have to run cheap oil and bad fuel for a little while and you could need a new motor. Dealers don't want to spend $2000 trying to fix a bike that they just sold for $4500.

I'd prefer to deal with an owner than a dealer anyway.

Andy

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Bear in mind, I think those are "ideal world" prices. I've seen tatty MC21's sell for £700, and I bought an extremely tidy MC18 R5K rolling chassis a couple years ago for £41! I know where there's a nice MC16 sat too, that sold for £300!

Your comparison with local prices is irrelevant. I wouldn't pay USA money for an NSR... unless of course I was in the USA! If you want a nice bike here you pay the going UK£ rate, not Australian prices!
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Glen wrote:
...I paid $2000AUD for a road registered MC18 and $1500 for a race MC21 with a box full of spares worth around $2500..

There is no way I'd pay the prices shown in the chart posted above, our dollar is double the pound atm.

AU$2000 is currently £1150, so you DID pretty much pay the price in that graph above! There's always a bit of give and take in any deal.
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Are you holding out on me Andy?!?!?!?

No way! I wouldn't do that to you Glen. That's not what I'm about.

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