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I am trying to sell enough pens in the next two years to afford a bike. I am twelve years old and I have seen a few nice bikes that are a few years old around 2 - 4 grand. Think it's possible?

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I assume you mean dirtbike? 2-4 is a going rate for a used dirt bike only a few years old. I am sure you can do it.
 
Man, you can rider that at 14? it is 16 here in Cali. Whatever you buy as a beginner bike you will get tired of really fast, especially if you get a 125 for the street. I would not get anything less than a 250, but that is crazy small for the street. But get it and ride for a year or so, keep in good condition and you can resell. I have had many bikes in my day, I had a 250 and it was just way to slow, but I was 22 or so at the time, not 14, lol.
 
A 150 is as slow as you can go until you hit 18, and 250 is the fastest until then. If I get the 150 I am not taking it out on the highway, I'll get ran over!
 
I dont know the local laws about motorcycles sizes here. I got my license before they had all the CHP classes and stuff. I have a 05 Buell XB12scg at the moment. I like loud and abonoxious instead of break neck speed.

You should be able to make that much cash in two years if you really go after it, I only sell a few pens here and there but I dont push it at all. I see it happening, good luck.
 
Sure... you can do it. Concentrate on learning the basics and being able to do them impeccably well. Your advanced skills will grow as you grow so long as you are rock solid with the basics.

Then focus on a small number of pens that people like and want to buy and start churning them out with highest possible quality as your goal. Accept nothing but the best from yourself. Reject your mistakes and only put your very best out there.

Lastly, charge top dollar for top quality. DON'T CUT YOUR PRICES to make it easy to sell!! If you produce truly great quality then you are worth great money. Never forget that or be untrue to yourself. You can't go wrong, if you do the things I am saying.

Then when you get your bike... start doing the very same things... get the basics down pat... especially safety. Once you have a solid foundation start building your advanced skills. You will be rewarded with a long life of great and exciting riding.
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Thanks.
One more Oklahoma motorcycle law is that you have to have a muffler that reduces sound to less than the X decibals.
These peeps be crazy!

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Ryan
 
Good luck. Everyone has their favorite but i really like mine.:biggrin: Cost 6200 brand new in 2003 and havent done anything but change oil since. You could probably find one around your price if you look hard. Just my 2 cents. bloodstone.jpg 2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 800b. They are almost bullit proof.( And they like to run. Hits the rev limiter at 48 in first, 85 in second ,110 in third and i havent hit it in 4th or 5th.) Very comfortable and rides really good.
 
Bree said:
Sure... you can do it. Concentrate on learning the basics and being able to do them impeccably well. Your advanced skills will grow as you grow so long as you are rock solid with the basics.

Then focus on a small number of pens that people like and want to buy and start churning them out with highest possible quality as your goal. Accept nothing but the best from yourself. Reject your mistakes and only put your very best out there.

Lastly, charge top dollar for top quality. DON'T CUT YOUR PRICES to make it easy to sell!! If you produce truly great quality then you are worth great money. Never forget that or be untrue to yourself. You can't go wrong, if you do the things I am saying.

Then when you get your bike... start doing the very same things... get the basics down pat... especially safety. Once you have a solid foundation start building your advanced skills. You will be rewarded with a long life of great and exciting riding.
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Exactly what Bree said! :biggrin::biggrin:
 
I worked at a horse ranch shoveling out stalls for a summer to buy my first bike. A Honda 100 (largest I could ride on the street at 15). Worked there a second summer and bought a 250 that next summer.

I'd much rather turn pens than shovel horse stuff.

Go for it.
 
Wooden_Pen_Turner_11 said:
A 150 is as slow as you can go until you hit 18, and 250 is the fastest until then. If I get the 150 I am not taking it out on the highway, I'll get ran over!
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Ryan,
I'll age myself back into the stone ages, but when I was in the navy and stationed on Guam, I had a Honda 50 cc... and the biggest thing Honda made in those days was a 300 Dreamcycle... Yahama's biggest was a 250.... after I sold my toy bike, I borrowed a friend's 250 Yahama and went for a ride... met a house in the road on one of the back roads and tried slow down and turn, but hit a gravel pocket and dumped it:eek:... when it quit spinning, I was squatting on the gas tank holding onto the handle bar for dear life... scuffed the bike, but not me. :biggrin:
 
TellicoTurning said:
Ryan,
I'll age myself back into the stone ages, but when I was in the navy and stationed on Guam, I had a Honda 50 cc... and the biggest thing Honda made in those days was a 300 Dreamcycle... Yahama's biggest was a 250.... after I sold my toy bike, I borrowed a friend's 250 Yahama and went for a ride... met a house in the road on one of the back roads and tried slow down and turn, but hit a gravel pocket and dumped it:eek:... when it quit spinning, I was squatting on the gas tank holding onto the handle bar for dear life... scuffed the bike, but not me. :biggrin:
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Bad experience? Hopefully I'll have better luck than that.
 
Just be careful!

Bikes are lots of fun until you start fooling around on them. I got my motorcycle license 2 years before I bothered getting my car license.

I was out on an open stretch one sunny afternoon wearing only a tshirt and shorts, decided to "give it a little gas" for a second. At 110MPH I hit a pothole, ripped the bars from my hands and started doing a tankslapper, tried grabbing them again - Bad mistake - snapped both my wrists between the bars and the tank. Bike and me both slid down the pavement over 600 ft (according to the cop measuring the marks). I remember the bike even landing on top of me once when it was going end over end. Spent 8 days in the hospital before I checked myself out against the drs wishes. The ambulance guys stopped in to see me a few days after and one said he was shocked I made it. I guess I looked like raw meat when he took me in.

Lots of roadrash (back, legs, arms) and a little smarter now :biggrin:
 
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I think you can do it. A 250 is a great beginner bike. You can kill yourself real easy with 250 cc's. It'll do better than 70 mph. You can get a heck of nice used 250 for $2000 too. If you have $4000 you can probably find a brand new bike in the 175-250 range. My first bike was 175 and I bought it brand new but a last year model for $3000...it was a Kawasaki. Nice bike, great on fuel and it would do 70 just barely. Always wear full gear young man. It might be cool to have no helmet, wear shorts and tennis shoes, but it's not cool when you hit the pavement, even at a low speed. I always wore leather, steel toe boots, gloves and full face helmet, no matter what the weather outside. Saved my life wearing all those items. There's only two types of riders..ones that crashed and once that are going to crash. Never forget that! Not trying to persuade you at all. You trash a bike, it can be replaced, but you can not. A dome on your head is not a helmet. Nobody ever crashes a bike and lands on top of their head! Think about it...first thing you instinctively do is rotate your body so you belly smack the pavement, trying to use your hands to cushion the landing and all this means your face will smack the ground. The bike will land on your foot..thus you need steel to boots.
There's no reason you can't save up the money selling pens. Good luck!
 
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