On occasion I go to Craiglist and just poke around looking at the motorycles that are for sale.  The Cincinnati version includes a large amount of land area and has pages and pages of motorcycles listed.  If you are willing to drive 2 hours to pickup a bike you also can include the Lexington and Louisville, KY and the Dayton and Columbus, OH lists as well.  There are thousands of motorycles to choose from - and most of the same bikes are on the site for as long as my memory and attention span can recall.  There are usually about 10 - 15 Savages to choose from on these 5 lists, and if you have a bike like a Kawasaki 250 Ninja you can pick from a hundred of them......more models and years of Harleys than I can count.

If you are in the market to purchase a used bike......you have a great many bikes to choose from.  It seems that we buy and drive our cars and keep using them until they are worn out and sent off for scrap.....or we trade it in on a new one and somebody else buys it and uses it up.  For motorycles it seems that far less are used up and scrapped - they tend to be used for a while and then offered for sale when the owner wants a new one.  Sure there are insurance company bikes that get written off - but most of them are recycled and put back on the market with Salvage titles or parted out to repair other bikes.  Our Craigslist has a seller called Racer411 that offers salvage bikes almost exclusively.

I just can't help but believe that motorcycles sales have far outpaced the rate at which people can sustain it.....and that if you want to buy a bike you have a great chance of finding a nice one.  If you are selling.......it can be really tough!  

Yeah, I just dropped the price on the Harley site on my Road Glide another $500 and have not gotten any hits and i'm about 5 grand under list price for it.
Really tuff to sell right now. Folks want me to give it away, and that isn't going to happen.

Since a lot of you guys can't ride in winter, JOG2 sums it up.

The only bikes that sell with any rapidity down here seem to be Honda VLX600, Honda CMX450C, and Kawasaki VN800A models. The rest sit on the sites until the ad expires and doesn't get renewed, or in some cases, for years. I've seen the same overpriced Shovelhead chopper on Craigslist for over 2 years. $5500 is too much for a 1970s AMF oil leaker.

And you still literally can not give away a Savage/S40 down here. Scrappers don't even want them.

One of the reasons I posted this, is that when I was looking for a road bike that I could put my wife on with me.....I just kept seeing the same bikes over and over and over.  Some of them appeared to be good prices and in good shape - others were taped together basket cases.  I was not sure what I wanted, a friend had suggested that the BMW K bikes were very reliable and although not flashy - they were a good value.  I kept seeing really nice bikes week after week and they were very affordable.  Then I wondered about the Kawasaki Concours, and looked at them for a while and once again, the same bikes were listed for months.  I had also toyed with the idea of getting a 250 Ninja to keep for a year or two as they were darn cheap and I thought it would be fun to own one for a year and then move it - but there were so many of those for sale that I never was able to keep track of them and I suspected when it came time to sell it I would have to give it away.  It just seemed to me that there were far more bikes than could ever be re-sold on the used market.

The BIL's concourse sees little action.  and I've ridden it once around the block.  I'd have to stretch the bars back so I could sit up and I'd have to find more room for my feet.  I've heard they're top heavy, so once they start to go over... good luck bringing it back.

250's being bounced from newb to newb might not be a good buy unless you're comfortable with straightening it out.  but it might be a good alternative to the savage for commuting as long as you don't have a lot of stop and go.

250 ninja's a couple years old are really cheap here, I actually bought the wife a new one for 3,000 bucks, it was only 4 months old and had 400 miles on it.
She didn't like the way it sat when full of fuel it was a little awkward for her (top heavy).
I sold it for what I bought it for and got her the savage.
I myself have a 300 ninja and love the little thing, its a blast to ride and gets really good gas mileage, water cooled , fuel injected and low maintenance. The riding position is what I don't like on the really long rides, which is why i'm selling my Harley to buy a savage for me.
There are 2 LS650's on CL down here and one S40, priced from 1,500 to 2,400, the low priced one has a lot of case corrosion but is said to run really well, I've got to sell the Harley first, not enough room in the garage at the moment and don't want to store it outside.

Well, talk to his dad and bring the 300 over to your house so you can "keep it running good", until he figures out what to do with it. Ya know....since he got the ticket and can't insure it, will keep him from riding it and get in trouble....hint....hint...