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1987 YZ80U

kettlewallace

kettlewallace

New member
Joined
Jan 8, 2014
Location
Oakland, Ca, USA
Moto(s)
2003 Aprilia Futura, & 1996 KLR 650 w/big bore
I pulled my starter bike out of storage recently and have spent a bit of time trying to resurrect it for use. We had it well stored and I was able to give it a full cleaning, new air filter, and new chain to have it run great right off the bat. It does noticeably need a headset overhaul and a re-tune (definitely the idle speed). Unfortunately, its just WAAAY too small for my grown ass. Can anyone help me assess what I should ask for this on Craigslist and or on BARF? Is this old two stroke sought after, is it junk, or somewhere in-between? KBB has pricing back to '91 only and there aren't really any kicking around online for sale. Weigh in on this if you please! (Oh and if there is a more appropriate place to post this please let me know. I did my best to poke around for an appraisal section and didn't see one. I posted this in motocross as well but thought there'd be more ppl viewing here). Thanks.

(picture is straight from the garage, note that it looks much shinier now)

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come on, lets get the guy some help!
 
CL: $700
BARF: $7000
 
thx Rob, Loki. We're doing the full overhaul on it now. Going to use it as a training bike for a friend's sis to take baby steps with. Might keep it just for that but if it sells I'll gladly post the end price for the public record. cheers.
 
You should keep it. The problem is that you can buy a newer 85 for a grand which will be a huge leap ahead of that '87. So, you're going to have to be pretty far away from that price to attract someone who actually wants to ride it (it's too old for the kart crowd). I'd say maybe half. Needing a top end drops at least another hundred, so I say $400 max. You could get lucky and find someone who's into it from years past, but being an 80, that's a really small audience within an already really small audience. If you could find that guy, you may actually get a grand for it since it would be such an easy resto.
 
byke said:
You should keep it. The problem is that you can buy a newer 85 for a grand which will be a huge leap ahead of that '87. So, you're going to have to be pretty far away from that price to attract someone who actually wants to ride it (it's too old for the kart crowd). I'd say maybe half. Needing a top end drops at least another hundred, so I say $400 max. You could get lucky and find someone who's into it from years past, but being an 80, that's a really small audience within an already really small audience. If you could find that guy, you may actually get a grand for it since it would be such an easy resto.
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+1, but I think even $400 might be optimistic. Even modest refurb dollars could easily eclipse the sale value. Much newer bikes in that class tend to be readily available because kids grow, and competitive (or aspirational) racers are always getting new ones.
 
Cool bike. Get a kid or a lady on it. Share the love. It will come back.
 
When you settle in a price post up. I might have use for something like this.
 
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