Advice/Help On Selling My MB

[fasteddy]

As Dilly Bar Rob said, the bike has been for sale for a long time. The reason probably is that the max fine for riding a gas powered bike you built yourself on the roads in BC is a $5,000 fine, up to 2yrs in jail, loss of your drivers licence and the fact you will need two very good jobs to pay for insurance when you get it back.

The province is self insuring so they write all the laws so that they come out on top. You buy your insurance from an agent but the province backs it up and does any pay outs.

Check out the laws where you live. You may have to register the bikes as the manufacturer before they can be put on the road.

Steve.

 

[thepassionneverdies]

Looked into that all that needs to be done in california is to register for eighteen dollars no license is required if the motor is under 80cc. I thought about selling the kits but ill be charging more for the same product

 

[Member 5549]

Just Rember that once you start selling them, The Buyers are going to expect FREE tech support for Life !!!!!!

Poeple are stupid and think they did you a faver for buying something from you.

 

[Member 5549]

I used to build computers and sell them , I had people calling me 5 years later !!!!!
Hey this thing is slow !!!!! are you sure you built it right ?????
Well excuse me but it's now obsolete you dip **** !!!!!

 

[thepassionneverdies]

thanks for all the responses and great...news about the computer building...I am trying to start a computer repair business too but didnt want to put all my eggs in one basket so i thought about selling MB too

 

[Dilly Bar Rob]

As Dilly Bar Rob said, the bike has been for sale for a long time. The reason probably is that the max fine for riding a gas powered bike you built yourself on the roads in BC is a $5,000 fine, up to 2yrs in jail, loss of your drivers licence and the fact you will need two very good jobs to pay for insurance when you get it back.

The province is self insuring so they write all the laws so that they come out on top. You buy your insurance from an agent but the province backs it up and does any pay outs.

Check out the laws where you live. You may have to register the bikes as the manufacturer before they can be put on the road.

Steve.

Ah, a fellow BC member who checks kijiji for "50cc" If that bike drops to $100 or better yet ends up in the free section I will probably get it for parts, as kamloops is close to where I live (1hr30min drive-close by our standards). There are 2 Tomos 50cc mopeds on there now for 1100 each, waiting to see if the price goes down....

Yeah BC's stance towards these things is pretty sad, they have it all so well figured out, seems that no loopholes are left


thepassionneverdies: maybe try and sell one or two to people you know really well first, see how that goes. Build the bikes to your best ability. Are you using new cheap bikes (walmart), or older bikes? If older be sure to repack all the bearings, adjust brakes & everything etc...eh, thinking about it you probably want to do that even with a new bike now-a-days. Break the bike in, try to get 100km on it (at least), work out ALL the bugs along the way, make sure no more of them are likely to pop up once sold. Make sure you tell the buyer that you did all that, tell him about the "weak spots" and about what you did to make them better. Sell it for around $600 . If no sale, you have the wrong buyer

 

[fasteddy]

Dilly Bar Rob, when I was looking at what was allowed for MB in BC I found out two groups showed up in Ottawa to seek input into the rules that were being drawn up.

One was Ford because they were making e-bikes at the time and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia to make sure that they could screw us out of having anything that might cost them money.

Ya, hour an half is close here,where your $400,00 house is 5 hours from work.

Steve.