Vintage Dirt Bike Q & A

So I posted my 74 CR250M Elsinore for sale and I have plenty of interest. The thing is that nobody wants to make an offer, save for the $100 crowd. Everybody wants me to name a price. I'd really like to get some help so I don't sell it for too cheap to an opportunistic sneak, nor do I want to chase away a perfectly fair buyer by asking too high of a price. I am not looking for offers on this forum, just a handful of quick opinions.
The bike is complete. It was put on a dmv non-op registration 30 years ago. Tires look okay, but are probably not ridable. Fork uppers have rust between the tripple clamps, the rear shock shafts have a few rust pits toward the top. It has the original exhaust is trail-dented shape. Chassis bearings don't wobble. The plastics are overall useable but not show quality at all. The tank is really nice with two mentionable dings. It's a pretty darned original bike owned and trail ridden quite a bit by one owner. It has good compression, but no effort has been made to service it nor to get it running. Overall, it's just what you expect to stumble on in an old trail rider's garage if he'd parked his in-use bike some 30 years ago and left it for other interests.
In this shape, with this limited description, what do you think it's worth? Come on, what do you really think? What do you actually think its' worth at a fair price to people actually looking to buy such a project?
Thanks for the help folks!
Jon

Here in TN, I'd offer as much as $2500 for a complete "barn find shape" runner.
I'd offer a bit more in CA due to the competition (other buyers).

I paid $1300 for my incomplete, non running, piece of crap '73 and $2500
for my totally complete, strong running, very nice '79.

Don't know what the market will bare right now with the economy in the sh*tter.

Good luck with it.

dogger

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1973 CR250M
1979 CR250R
1993 CR250R
2008 CR500R
2009 CR250R

Dogger, you continue pumping out good, helpful information. Thanks for the first objective, non-opportunistic pricing advice.

Let me know if you need parts for your 73, and I'll give you some good deals. I bought a parts lot a while back, and could stand to jetison much of it.

Take care,
Jon

There is one for slae by me I wish I had the money for 2500 I thinks its a pretty good price here is the link


http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/819967580.html

Dont sell for less than 2000. Do try to get it running it is worth 500 more that way.

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72 maico 400
73 elsinore 250
74 yamaha mx 360
04 yamaha yz 250