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Title: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: paul on May 04, 2010, 06:05:18 pm
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Brand-New-Suzuki-RM-500-/280502066872?cmd=ViewItem&pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item414f39deb8

Title: Re: new rm 500 on bay
Post by: JohnnyO on May 04, 2010, 06:12:07 pm
Yeah right.. i think he's dreaming at $20,000.
You could buy a good works bike for that in todays market.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: paul on May 04, 2010, 06:16:29 pm
20.000 NZD = 15.8388 AUD
New Zealand Dollars    Australia Dollars 
1 NZD = 0.791938 AUD   1 AUD = 1.26273 NZD
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: JohnnyO on May 04, 2010, 06:29:17 pm

20.000 NZD = 15.8388 AUD
New Zealand Dollars    Australia Dollars 
1 NZD = 0.791938 AUD   1 AUD = 1.26273 NZD

The add says $20,000 Aus dollars
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: paul on May 04, 2010, 06:30:37 pm
sorry  i didnt read it properly :o
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: suzuki43 on May 04, 2010, 06:31:42 pm
If I had the cash I would buy it in a heartbeat NOS !!!!!
This is the rarest RM 500 and its brand spanking NOS baby NOS

I am getting all giddy,must have a lie down.

Note to self-buy lotto ticket tomorrow.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: All Things 414 on May 04, 2010, 06:42:10 pm
As Firko pointed out with the crated bikes topic the other week, what could you do with it?  ??? You couldn't ride it. You can't tinker with it. Can't even rest your cup of coffee on it in case you leave one of those brown circles so it can't even be some fancy coffee table. :( Your mates are gunna get sick of coming to look at it after the tenth time. Somone's probably knocked off all the internals and no ones the wiser...... :D
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: JohnnyO on May 04, 2010, 06:45:15 pm
As 414 said with a brand new vmx bike all you can do is look at it..
As soon as you ride it it's worth a 3rd of that and i'd want to ride it!
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: suzuki43 on May 04, 2010, 07:12:05 pm
Just recovered from my lie down....

Yes true John but wouldnt it make a great ornament in the man cave!
I know some associates of the owner,the bike is unmolested and original....

Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: mx250 on May 04, 2010, 08:09:30 pm
How could anyone buy a MX'er and put it away for 24 years without starting up ???. How could you so obvious live on a farm and not take it for a hoot ::). I feel sorry for the guy :'(. I hope he gets his 20 grand, Psychotherapy is expensive. Poor guy, he needs help ;) :D.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: lc4 on May 04, 2010, 08:21:06 pm
As Firko pointed out with the crated bikes topic the other week, what could you do with it?  ??? You couldn't ride it. You can't tinker with it. Can't even rest your cup of coffee on it in case you leave one of those brown circles so it can't even be some fancy coffee table. :( Your mates are gunna get sick of coming to look at it after the tenth time. Somone's probably knocked off all the internals and no ones the wiser...... :D

The same could be said for a Picasso painting. I have a bike in my home study and people that are not into bikes ask why is that there?, I simply say why is that painting on the wall or that pot plant on the floor? ::)
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: kevwrx on May 04, 2010, 08:34:48 pm

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The same could be said for a Picasso painting. I have a bike in my home study and people that are not into bikes ask why is that there?, I simply say why is that painting on the wall or that pot plant on the floor? ::)
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So what you are saying is that there are people out there that DONT have bikes inside their houses ?? What sort of people are they...
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Hotelmoto on May 04, 2010, 08:46:21 pm


Wow - If i didn't have a wife I'd buy it..,,, wonder if he'd take a trade in hardly used.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: mainline on May 04, 2010, 09:04:05 pm
mmmmmmmmm........................

never started..........................

that would be like, I had Christy Turlington for a sleepover and we watched some videos and then went to sleep ::)

Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: zorroz on May 04, 2010, 09:10:28 pm
If I was spending that sort of coin, I'd rather a works bike with race history.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: holeshot buddy on May 04, 2010, 09:16:37 pm
nice bike lots of money 8)
i am with zorroz i would rather have a works bike with history
and i would ride it ;) :o
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Hoony on May 04, 2010, 09:19:38 pm
Buy it Holeshot and you can swap it for a ride on my Honda at CD7, you know you want to. ;)
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: oldyzman on May 04, 2010, 09:30:17 pm
I'm with Zorro re buying a works bike instead, but its a nice unit and possibly the ony new one in the world???
Brett
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Trent Farlow on May 04, 2010, 09:43:17 pm
A works bike would be better, but when do you ever see a works bike for sale, just about never, especially a Suzuki 500.  This is the next best thing and worth the coin - got to be the only one in the world.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: JohnnyO on May 04, 2010, 09:48:20 pm
A works bike would be better, but when do you ever see a works bike for sale, just about never, especially a Suzuki 500.  This is the next best thing and worth the coin - got to be the only one in the world.
You would be surprised... Works bikes are quite often for sale in England and the US.
You just need the coin and the right contacts.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: holeshot buddy on May 04, 2010, 09:57:15 pm
thats right i am working on and
saving up for one now
they are around but scarce


and its not a honda ;D
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: monaro308 on May 05, 2010, 01:49:46 am
So what you are saying is that there are people out there that DONT have bikes inside their houses ?? What sort of people are they...
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Who'd be silly enough to have an MXer in their lounge room..... Some people!  ;D

(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa250/hjcoupe/Picture303s.jpg)
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Rossvickicampbell on May 05, 2010, 02:21:24 am
I'm not  allowed to  :'(
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: mx250 on May 05, 2010, 06:40:57 am
(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/mf_bounce8.gif) Wow, that's either NOS or one hell of a resto 8).
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa250/hjcoupe/Picture303s.jpg)
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: SAABCOMBI on May 05, 2010, 07:49:37 am
A lot of people do have bike in their lounge, my wife wouldn`t let me, l owned a new cz in a crate, open the lid on the crate everytime l walked into my shed, l woudn`t want another one, the frustation to great and you smoke to much thinking about it.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: zorroz on May 05, 2010, 12:02:31 pm
Nothing wrong with keeping your bike in the house nice and safe!

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/zorroz/rm-1.jpg)
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: monaro308 on May 05, 2010, 02:02:45 pm
Nothing wrong with keeping your bike in the house nice and safe!

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/zorroz/rm-1.jpg)

JESUS zorroz!! I'd hate to ask where you keep your children ;D
Nice bike too......dreaming away smoking them Honda bears.

mx250.....that was my resto from july-dec last year.....haven't even fired it up yet ::)
If you're bored,have a read here
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/thread/807100/suzuki-rm125-a-b-c/10
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Marc.com on May 05, 2010, 03:26:44 pm
How could anyone buy a MX'er and put it away for 24 years without starting up ???. How could you so obvious live on a farm and not take it for a hoot ::). I feel sorry for the guy :'(. I hope he gets his 20 grand, Psychotherapy is expensive. Poor guy, he needs help ;) :D.

He has no shortage of cash and a garage full of other MXers.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: zorroz on May 05, 2010, 03:37:09 pm
Quote
JESUS zorroz!! I'd hate to ask where you keep your children ;D
Nice bike too......dreaming away smoking them Honda bears.

This was in the pre-renovation days now the house is too nice to put bike in it! (and had no kids back then). My excuse was that lots of bikes were stolen in my area (true) and I was in fear of my bike been the next one to go. And my wife bought the excuse  :D
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: tony27 on May 05, 2010, 04:39:22 pm
1 of the guys I used to know through the VJMC had a first model TZ350 in a glass case in his lounge, story was that it was bought & prepared for racing but by the time the owner had finished it either wouldn't have been competive or the owner couldn't be bothered by then. So a few years later it came up for sale cheap as old bikes did with full spares kit etc & never having been on a racetrack, who could resist that?
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: suzuki43 on May 05, 2010, 06:42:03 pm
I suspect the seller is under financial pressure, something to do with property development and the GFC I suspect.....
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: frostype400 on May 05, 2010, 09:38:13 pm
That rm500 is not a bad price considering what it is. One of my pe400's might go inside when done my mum and dad just dont know it yet it should be allowed in my room ;D the gt80 is going inside.

I want to do up one of my 400's like new and ride it inside and see what mum said she hadn't seen my gt80 till the other day and when she did asked what bike it was :P not the old red one any more shiny blue.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Marc.com on May 06, 2010, 06:40:39 am
I suspect the seller is under financial pressure, something to do with property development and the GFC I suspect.....

Yep the real effects of the GFC happen a couple of years later. Really struggling when you have to put the family silver and the RM500 on the block. Buyers market, offer him NZD 10K cash.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: suzuki43 on May 06, 2010, 07:49:01 am
Would love to but no GM bonuses paid to me this year mate!
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: Marc.com on May 06, 2010, 08:48:10 am
Would love to but no GM bonuses paid to me this year mate!

Yep inhuman resources found a way of wangling us out of our bonus this year....highly motivating.

20 K AUD is not so expensive, another struggling property developer I know is out for more than that in council rates.
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: suzuki43 on May 06, 2010, 08:50:58 am
Yes Mr Serepisos!
Title: Re: new rm 500 on ebay
Post by: mx250 on May 06, 2010, 09:01:20 am
The GFC has a lot to answer for, especially amongst the young. They can't afford shoes and wear worn out hand-me-downs as cloths :-\ :'(

(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/OzVMX/ATT0060211fsdfd.jpg) ;D