2001 VTR1000 , 377 miles

[podman]

Spotted this whilst browzing my VJMC magazine, may suit a very dedicated Firestorm enthusiast...or David Silvers museum!

Ive no connection to the seller .

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[agentpineapple]

still not worth 5k, i bet it still has auto cct's.........

[Loo Kahs]

In all seriousness, it isn't the first time I see a bike with ridiculously low mileage that appears genuine.

How does this happen? Purchase with the intention/hope that it will become a modern classic?

[fabiostar]

owning any bike that length of time and doing that few miles?? he needs a good booting

[TheGingerBeardMan]

It's not just the owner that needs a good boot - imagine the cobwebs in those exhausts - the bike needs a good boot as well!

I dunno - an average of 25 miles a year - there's a possibility it's just been to the MOT place and back again.



I can't imagine someone all those years ago having the foresight that the VTR will be worth hanging onto in years to come, in the hope of a mega profit. Maybe it's a really old guy that wanted to return to biking and only took it out on sunny days, up the street and back again.

I'd love to see the registration, to check the MOT history and covered milage in between.

Aside from the above, there's a possibility it:
a) Scared him shitless, and he stuck it in the garage and forgot about it.
b) He's been abroad for all this time, and has returned to the UK.
c) Someone else in the family owned it, and they died, and it's sentimentally been kept under a cover all this time?
d) Ferk knows.

[VTRDark]

There's a lot to be said about parts that freely move and do their job. Just think what else 5 grand can buy you.

[countrymick]

my tiger had only done 230 miles in its first two years,alough the pervious owner was 78.

[BigVeeGrin]

we bought a Mitsubishi shogun earlier this year - 2004 reg with less than 7,000 miles, 5,000 of those were in its first three years. Serviced every year at the Mitsubishi garage and some years it had only done 120 miles or so. Like new it was

[TheGingerBeardMan]

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So, come on then....

Who's gonna volunteer to phone the advert and ask what the story is?

I CANNOT do it, as the poor bugger may only have another 40 years to live, and I'd take up most of that with irrelivant waffle BEFORE getting round to asking about the bike....



It's in North Yorkshire, so someone must be close by to go kick a couple o' tyres and give us a SITREP...

[Loo Kahs]

It's not just the owner that needs a good boot - imagine the cobwebs in those exhausts - the bike needs a good boot as well!

I dunno - an average of 25 miles a year - there's a possibility it's just been to the MOT place and back again.



I can't imagine someone all those years ago having the foresight that the VTR will be worth hanging onto in years to come, in the hope of a mega profit. Maybe it's a really old guy that wanted to return to biking and only took it out on sunny days, up the street and back again.

I'd love to see the registration, to check the MOT history and covered milage in between.

Aside from the above, there's a possibility it:
a) Scared him shitless, and he stuck it in the garage and forgot about it.
b) He's been abroad for all this time, and has returned to the UK.
c) Someone else in the family owned it, and they died, and it's sentimentally been kept under a cover all this time?
d) Ferk knows.

I'm quickly learning that I can always count on you to write me an essay.

B and C sound reasonable to me. Such low mileage is making me doubt the possibility that the bike was ridden at all though.

I say, you should give the person a call and find out, after all, you're the chatty one.

[TheGingerBeardMan]

Hmmm. 2 flat tyres coming up methinks

If you hear anyone skulking round the bins later, it'll just be me......

[TheGingerBeardMan]

I was always told to enunciate dahling! Even though my enunciations of recent years have become a tad verbose.

(Whaddya mean A TAD, GBM?....Yer having a laff man!)

[podman]

my tiger had only done 230 miles in its first two years,alough the pervious owner was 78.

It happens with these old boys, I bought a first gen 1999 Hayabusa from a gent in his 70s back 2010 with a few hundred miles on it, he had a huge collection of vehicles in a heated outbuilding, including a 1994 Escort Cosworth with 2,000 miles on the clock and a Dodge Viper he'd also owned from new with not much more...

He did most of his miles on a 300cc Honda scooter...

[firestorm_al]

The last Bandit I bought (after the CTC failed on the Storm) had 200 miles on it and was nearly 3 years old. I MOT'd it before I had finished running it in!

The guy that had it before had bought it down south right before moving to Fife. He didn't have a garage so it spent nearly two and a half years in his kitchen before he finally decided to sell it. It did more miles in the back of a van that it had on its own two wheels.

Al.