Aprilias and Kawasakis have poor resale value compared to other brands. No reflection on their performance or quality. Just one of those strange motorcycling anomalies.
Well they did come with crap shocks a shitty working damper and clunking front ends but that's another story.... My local dealer sells moto guzzi, bmw, Ktm, zero electric, Yamaha, Honda, Ducati, ebr and last but not least Kawi. We have spoken at length about why the low resale. They said its multi faceted but mainly revolves around units. Simply put Kawi imports a shit ton of motorcycles and has a shit ton of dealers even compared to the other big manufacturers. This makes more bikes available, more to sell which makes more bike on rebate which makes more people buy them for 4K off retail which kills the guy who spent full retail. Just my .02All bikes have poor resale and ours are worse. Market forces. Plus Kawa has trolls that often pointed out loose triples and bad shocks and crap dampers, etc.
I think your point is valid plus Kawa has history way back. My point is that the g4's are solid in every way; trolls mine the environment; don't buy the g4's yet marginalize the best bike ever made. I know first hand as I buy a new super every few years and I run the crap outta of them. Owned all the in line fours except gixxer and several of each.Well they did come with crap shocks a shitty working damper and clunking front ends but that's another story.... My local dealer sells moto guzzi, bmw, Ktm, zero electric, Yamaha, Honda, Ducati, ebr and last but not least Kawi. We have spoken at length about why the low resale. They said its multi faceted but mainly revolves around units. Simply put Kawi imports a shit ton of motorcycles and has a shit ton of dealers even compared to the other big manufacturers. This makes more bikes available, more to sell which makes more bike on rebate which makes more people buy them for 4K off retail which kills the guy who spent full retail. Just my .02