You never know what’s out there until you try to sell something. I post a notice that I think I might want to sell my Ural, and Paris-based motorcycle blogger Mike Werner suggests I post it on the adventure rider forum, of which I have been oblivious all this time. It’s so much fun! Forums, lists and critiques of adventure touring bikes, books, and more – hey, the Ural isn’t listed though the criteria fits: “Motorcyles fit for long days that you can take off-road.”
Then Minnesota-based Sheldon Aubut suggests I list it on the IMZ-Ural web board, which I hadn’t seen before though I ought to have taken a look once the Ural America site folded. (Too bad…they had a great forum that was very active.)
My dad suggested I sell it on eBay, because both my brothers work for the company and my mom just made $250 on an old World’s Fair poster. Sure enough, I see Urals, Dneprs, and more for sale “just like new,” or parts “in the crates.”
Craigslist.org is my other option, of course, which is how I found some DSL equipment, a job, and my new abode, a fabulous little cottage near Park Presidio. (My mother says she now has dedicated three full pages of her address book to me alone and is leaving one blank for future moves.)
But the newspaper? I don’t know…do YOU look in the newspaper when you want to buy or sell something?
