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Originally Posted by JerryHawk250
Most of the dealers add the BS fees at the end. My local dealer lost two sale from me with the SB fees.
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The quality of the Chinese bikes has really gone up, and the prices, even with the stimulus money causing inflation (and that was DURING COVID) of all Chinese motorsports, the current prices really haven't gone out of control. And the bikes we take for granted are much higher quality than the ones from 10 to 15 years ago, even though those ones cost about as much as they do now.
There are quite a few choices in the $2k range, and if you bump up your budget to $3k, you get into some great bikes, such as the venerable SSR XF250 or the more and more proven KPX250. Name brand bikes are a few hits and mostly misses as far as prices go. I have seen numerous posts (on this site and others) over the years from certain individuals who seem to find otd prices of big brand bikes for less than msrp (seemed to be in the Pacific Northwest, and east of there into states like Idaho and Montana). This was years ago, so I would be curious if those areas still have low, blow-out prices considering their real estate prices have gone super high--like where professionals like school principals have gotten hired and are living in RVs because their six-figure salary cannot pay for a house or even local rent--like Wyoming and Idaho and Montana. So, I am guessing the answer would be no to low big-brand bike prices nowadays.