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masterx1234

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ever since i got my kit, everyone now wants one, i have 2 people lined up to have me build motorized bikes for them, and there paying pretty good, im charging each of them 200 dollars, which i think is reasonable, my question is, do you guys do this too? i mean this could be a huge profit for me, how good is the market for these kits? i still cant believe how many people wanted to buy my bike LOL, i do have a full time job, so having the time to assemble the kits is pretty slim, but i still offered to do it for them anyways as long as they supplied their own bike.
 
are they paying for the kit and then 200 in labor? If so that is more than decent. If not it is on the slim side of reasonable.
 
I am in the process of selling my wally world build. Bike 80, kit 130 (when I bought it) total cost, 210. Selling it to a friend for 300......a stranger it would be at least 50 more.
 
don't sell your self short

Installing these kits requires a lot of work(if done correctly) and first you have to make sure that the wally world bike is up to snuff to begin with. I would also make sure that the customer brings his bike back after about fifty miles because everything will get loose. that will help justify the price he has to pay for the install.

What I used to do in my old bicycle shop was to offer free service for the first sixty days of a new bikes purchase.This made me look good and also brought the customer back to buy more goodies.

mike.
 
I'm afraid of the liabilities associated with selling such a cheaply built non-quality product.
I sell my time and knowledge without touching the bike. If someone wants to build a bike
I'll come over and talk point a lot, but their actually doing the building. $150 profit for 3 hrs
work is really good without getting your hands dirty. Now days if I build its for me, at my own risk.
(And I have had many bicycle malfunctions due to cheap product)

I do understand that the reason someone needs a bike built is because they haven't any mechanical
abilities. More reason they shouldn't own a MB. But, if they jump in and build it they soon gain knowledge
acquired in owning one of these pieces of rolling machinery.
 
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graucho your rite on i think i do the same now i point and let them know better ways to do it like locktite thead locker and so on
i,v done bikes for people and what i don't like people come back and *****ing about nuts and stuff comming losse i'v told them before i build one for them it needs weeky maint and what really **** me off is the first 3 weeks after i build it they bring it back and watch me do it and i have them do it on the third week so i biuld for myself and for frinds i ride with
 
If someone wants a bike weather it be used (old bike) or a new bike...I sell them ALL as a used bike... You have to ride them to make sure it runs out right...Now it's used. I wouldn't take anything less then $200.00, closer to $300.00 if I add the mods I do, not including parts. I like the idea of selling your time and not the effort. What burns my azz is when I built one for a close friend, we had $300.00 in it (new cruiser) and not a month or so later he sold it for $600.00+. NEVER AGAIN. Had ALL my mods done to it...here it is.
 
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al i had a frind do that to but he sold it for 650.00 and gave me 200.00
for the time we put into the bike
and he biuld one himself with my tools
but we ride 2or3 times a week
 
I'm afraid of the liabilities associated with selling such a cheaply built non-quality product.
I sell my time and knowledge without touching the bike. If someone wants to build a bike
I'll come over and talk point a lot, but their actually doing the building. $150 profit for 3 hrs
work is really good without getting your hands dirty. Now days if I build its for me, at my own risk.
(And I have had many bicycle malfunctions due to cheap product)

I do understand that the reason someone needs a bike built is because they haven't any mechanical
abilities. More reason they shouldn't own a MB. But, if they jump in and build it they soon gain knowledge
acquired in owning one of these pieces of rolling machinery.
I agree!!

...... and what i don't like people come back and *****ing about nuts and stuff comming losse i'v told them before i build one for them it needs weeky maint and ......
been there....done that.

hah.... now if somebody asks if I will build one for them I tell them to buy a Dependable Honda or a Yamaha scooter. Then I show them my greasy hands & say "Do you want to always show up everywhere like this?"
 
Very good points! Much to my wife's dismay, they have made me decide to keep it. Going to follow graucho's advice and supervise for the money.
 
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