Looking to buy a gen 2

Quiksilver

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Well I thought the day would never come, but I'm ready to purchase a gen 2. I'm liking the 2019 in grey. I've been looking around for the best price recently. Well i have talked to a few salesmen today and someone asked how old I was. I tell him 32 and he says oh, insurance wont be bad. I totally forgot to check to see how much insurance would be. I checked with geico and it would be 155 a month! That's a good bit cheaper than when I first got a quote over 12 years ago but jeez. I've gotten a few tickets over the years but had them "fixed". So idk if that's a normal figure but man it seems high.
 
Quiksilver said:
Well I thought the day would never come, but I'm ready to purchase a gen 2. I'm liking the 2019 in grey. I've been looking around for the best price recently. Well i have talked to a few salesmen today and someone asked how old I was. I tell him 32 and he says oh, insurance wont be bad. I totally forgot to check to see how much insurance would be. I checked with geico and it would be 155 a month! That's a good bit cheaper than when I first got a quote over 12 years ago but jeez. I've gotten a few tickets over the years but had them "fixed". So idk if that's a normal figure but man it seems high.
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Im 34 and I pay 36 a month for full coverage for my 09. I live in Iowa and I have to carry the coverage all year.
 
Mathewrussell52 said:
Im 34 and I pay 36 a month for full coverage for my 09. I live in Iowa and I have to carry the coverage all year.
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That's awsome! What's the secret? I'm honestly not sure why it's so high, I've had teo tickets in the last 10 years. Really nothing on my record (that I know of) to make my insurance high. Maybe it's the area I'm from? We are prone to flooding since I live on the gulf coast.
 
fallenarch said:
Good luck on the purchase. I bought my 2009 new 10 years ago and I still say OMG when I take her out on a ride, amazing bikes.
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I had high Hope's but I believe with the financing and insurance is just too high for me right now. I can afford it but its gonna take me out my comfort zone. It's ok though I still have old faithful. She needs a ton of TLC though, hell both my bikes do.
 
Quiksilver said:
That's awsome! What's the secret? I'm honestly not sure why it's so high, I've had teo tickets in the last 10 years. Really nothing on my record (that I know of) to make my insurance high. Maybe it's the area I'm from? We are prone to flooding since I live on the gulf coast.
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Most people here prob only ride 500-1000 miles a year. We don’t have helmet laws in Iowa its cheeper to die then live for a insurance company. Those are my guesses. I also have everything with my insurance company all cars, home and bike. Also only ticket I have had in 13 years is a seat belt ticket. Before that it was BAD!
 
Quiksilver said:
Well I thought the day would never come, but I'm ready to purchase a gen 2. I'm liking the 2019 in grey. I've been looking around for the best price recently. Well i have talked to a few salesmen today and someone asked how old I was. I tell him 32 and he says oh, insurance wont be bad. I totally forgot to check to see how much insurance would be. I checked with geico and it would be 155 a month! That's a good bit cheaper than when I first got a quote over 12 years ago but jeez. I've gotten a few tickets over the years but had them "fixed". So idk if that's a normal figure but man it seems high.
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I see two options:
1. Purchase new through Suzuki finance and take a chance of running without full coverage, since they don’t require it (I wouldn’t do it, but some do)
2. Get a used bike for half the cost of a new OTD and use the money saved to put full coverage on it. 2008 -2019 are all the same, except for addition of ABS in 2013 and newer.
 
Mathewrussell52 said:
Most people here prob only ride 500-1000 miles a year. We don’t have helmet laws in Iowa its cheeper to die then live for a insurance company. Those are my guesses. I also have everything with my insurance company all cars, home and bike. Also only ticket I have had in 13 years is a seat belt ticket. Before that it was BAD!
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I only have the bikes with my current insurance and they were cheaper than others so far. Louisiana is such a leech of a state. Seems everything is sorta expensive here.
 
mabupa said:
I see two options:
1. Purchase new through Suzuki finance and take a chance of running without full coverage, since they don’t require it (I wouldn’t do it, but some do)
2. Get a used bike for half the cost of a new OTD and use the money saved to put full coverage on it. 2008 -2019 are all the same, except for addition of ABS in 2013 and newer.
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I've considered this heavily. My track record with used bikes has not been the best. Impatience is a major down fall of mine not to mention I dont want to sell my gen 1. That was one of my major selling points to my financial advisor lol. I'm thinking imma have to sell the gen 1 and finance the rest, that could cusion the blow some or go used
 
Quiksilver said:
I only have the bikes with my current insurance and they were cheaper than others so far. Louisiana is such a leech of a state. Seems everything is sorta expensive here.
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I just rehired a General Manager that just moved back from Vegas. He was telling me how everything is cheeper except housing.
 
Quiksilver said:
I've considered this heavily. My track record with used bikes has not been the best. Impatience is a major down fall of mine not to mention I dont want to sell my gen 1. That was one of my major selling points to my financial advisor lol. I'm thinking imma have to sell the gen 1 and finance the rest, that could cusion the blow some or go used
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Have you checked the classifieds here? I know there was a couple of bikes for sale. Including a 2011 with less than 15k miles. Not sure if I missed it, but what’s your location?
 
mabupa said:
Have you checked the classifieds here? I know there was a couple of bikes for sale. Including a 2011 with less than 15k miles. Not sure if I missed it, but what’s your location?
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No sir I surely haven't. I was almost sold on something brand new. But I will scroll through the classifieds. I live near houma, about an hour from new orleans.
 
Mathewrussell52 said:
Ya I thought we were decent here and he was telling me how his $400,000 house these was prob $1.2mil here.
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I've heard similar things when comparing to MS houses. My brother and I went there to look at a turbo and my brother asked the guy how much the houses were. We guessed they were close to 500k and I believe the houses were around 180k.
 
Quiksilver said:
No sir I surely haven't. I was almost sold on something brand new. But I will scroll through the classifieds. I live near houma, about an hour from new orleans.
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