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Originally Posted by greenaero
IMO: get the new tires, skip the gauges, paint and exhaust. Ride and enjoy your 250. Save your money for your next bike. The cosmetics you want to do to your bike would be money down the drain as far as resell. It's up to you as far as what you choose to do but you asked for opinions and that's mine. Good luck !
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Agree with this. Get the tires and skip everything else. You won't get all your money back for your mods, they depreciate just like everything else on the bike. I'm not familiar with your local market but $4100 sounds very optimistic on what is essentially a common place 6 or 7 year old starter 250 bike. I paid less than that for mine 4 years ago for a 1 year old bike. Add another $900 and you're into used 300 territory according to yourself.
I see it all the time on used listings, people who sink a whole bunch of cash into mods and upgrades and try to recoup that cost back in the selling price. Usually those bikes sit on the market for months, sometimes even years.