Buying a bike -- importance of age vs. mileage

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by tractorman

My question is this: Ideally it would be nice to buy a newer bike (say 2006 and newer) with low miles (say under 5000 miles.) But if you had the chance to buy an older bike, say 2000, with low miles, or a newer bike with 12-14,000 miles, for similar money, and they both look really good, how would you decide?

Given your example.....or even in that ball park, I'd take the newer model with more miles every time. It is often worse overall for it to be sitting idle than to be used regularly.

Now, if the newer one had over 30,000 miles, I might have to think about it a little longer.

Also, I think one of those sellers has an unrealistic price on their bike; probably the older one with low miles.