Hello everyone, I am about to buy my first bike: a 2004 Monster 620 with about 5K miles for $4,000 and thought it'd be a good idea to join the community here. Cursory research leads me to believe that's a good price...what do you guys think?
I'm all geared-up (since I heard that's the one place not to skimp). I also took the MSF BRC a year ago and got my motorcycle endorsement, but because of moving up to NYC, wasn't able to get a bike until now. I recently took 6 hours of private lessons at the local MSF school to get reacquainted though, so I think I'm ready to get back into it. Hopefully the weather stays warm a little bit longer so I can cram in as much seat time as possible before packing it in.
Anyway, looking forward to getting to know everyone.
Welcome to the DMF! :)
Good luck with the bike shopping. You'll get more opinions if you also post up in the General (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?board=1.0) forum, but whether that is a fair price depends on the mileage, maintenance, any damage/accidents, and anything else they've done to the bike.
Good call on the gear and the MSF refresher. [thumbsup]
Don't forget to check in with your local group, NYMMC (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?board=28.0), when you get a chance.
Have fun, ride safe.