are trike prices falling in your neck of the woods?

[Jim mac]

I know the 85/6 250r and 350x seems expensive but are the 200x prices seems to be not selling unless cheap? im talking rider type trikes, nice looking maybe a crack here or a tear in a seat.
I see them sit at 1500 up on marketplace.
im tempted to go look at one missing a headlight not running and a spare roller included, ad says 800, seller says come and get them for 600. If I didnt just buy a running complete 84 December I would have been right over but 600 dollars dont grow on trees around here anymore. jim

[BOB MARLIN]

I don't know if prices are falling or there just isn't the interest in 3 wheelers that there was a few years back. I don't even think there is any real sport quads (or four wheelers as some say) being produced any more. The interest seems to have turned to dirt bikes and side by sides now. A few years ago when I would log on to this site there would be 60 or even close to 100 others logged on, now most of the time its just me or maybe 2 others at the same time. I think the junk ATC's are still selling only because there is a demand for parts to keep what people already own running, but I don't think there is many "new" trike people getting into the sport.

[TrikeKid]

The toy market is correcting in general, I'm seeing it in trucks and motorcycles just as much as vintage ATVs. The covid era and "stimulus" money really upset the apple cart over the last few years but I think the cost of living is really getting to folks now, I know it has been for me. Trikes were free to cheap till 2019 or so, I remember trying to buy a pretty decent 200S off my buddy but we couldn't make a deal because he wanted a whole $300 for it and I wasn't paying more than 200 bucks. People around here were literally giving them away at that time though, same friend has at least 2 more 185/200s that he got for whatever it cost him in time and fuel to go pick them up. The people we've seen the past few years riding the wave of high prices are getting a reality check, pretty hard. Go look at what the ATVs did at Barret Jackson last month tricked out ATC70s were selling for less than it would cost me to build one, nice FL400 Pilot went for half what it would've last year.

The fun money is gone for a lot of folks. I've been watching machines just sit on marketplace for months because guys paid too much for them when the market was hot and won't take a realistic price now. I just sold my Tecate 4 that I paid too much for in 2022, it took me 6 months to find a buyer and I had to come off what i thought was a reasonable price to get it gone. If i had held out much longer I'd be stuck with the thing because I could only stand to lose so much $$$ selling it. I had almost zero interest in it locally, it ended up selling to a buyer in Wisconsin.

I don't know if prices are falling or there just isn't the interest in 3 wheelers that there was a few years back. I don't even think there is any real sport quads (or four wheelers as some say) being produced any more. The interest seems to have turned to dirt bikes and side by sides now. A few years ago when I would log on to this site there would be 60 or even close to 100 others logged on, now most of the time its just me or maybe 2 others at the same time. I think the junk ATC's are still selling only because there is a demand for parts to keep what people already own running, but I don't think there is many "new" trike people getting into the sport.

Yamaha still makes the YFZ450, Raptor 700 and a couple kids quads but they are it for sport machines now. Side by sides took everyone else out of that market.

[BOB MARLIN]

California banned the sale of the yfz450 in 2021. It appears there is a “Base” model that’s available this year. By sport quad I was referring to the yfz or the 450R. I guess a Raptor is considered a sport quad, I just always thought of it as kind of a recreational quad.

[J!m]

Maybe this is good news for me….

“PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!”

[camy]

Here in canada it's selling for absolute crazy money... atc 250r goes for 15000+ when you can find one. atc200x goes for 5000-6000$ and 350x are never under 10000$

[Jim mac]

im seeing 200x for under 2000 more like 1500. rarely see liquid rs for sale. I think i sold both my 85s a couple years back for 4500 each, same with the 350x. the air cooled rs arent getting sold in the 2000 dollar range, they just keep putting the ads back up. No idea what the hard tails are going for, im seeing them in the 600 dollar range with busted plastics, torn seats, bad tires. no titles. Then again the same machines just sit. ive got 2 185s with new tires, seats, titles, fiberglass old school rear fenders, I think about letting 1 go but I cant replace it for what a nice one would cost to replace it. jim

[Jim mac]

and to help keep tje hobby alive, I just messages a person on a atc90 that needs everything. im hoping to get it for 100 bucks and ill still be upside down after getting a seat pan, seat, tires, fenders. But im wanting it as a longer term project to play with. jim

[TrikeKid]

The last 2 days I've seen two kinda rough YT125s that were actually priced right, the $75 one went super fast and is now posted for resale at $350, there's another slightly nicer example for $250 that popped up this morning I've talked myself out of a couple times now.