1998 suzuki rgv250 luck strike edition vj23 for sale on ebay.
Located in Visalia, CA is this pristine, low mileage all original example of a classic Suzuki. I added a lot of the pictures from the auction, but there are more to be seen. The seller also lists his phone # for any interested parties.
Last year one of these came in at #5 on the RSBFS “Top 5”, most viewed postings and I can see why. Last years bike had an asking price of $16,000.00 bucks so it may have made the list because everyone was looking for gold plated parts. However, this one has been listed with a reserve and currently sits at $2,247.00 with the reserve still on. Based on past RSBFS Lucky Strike listings I can only imagine this one will need to exceed the $10,000 mark to be within the atomic range. I’m guessing closer to 14g’s and it would be sitting in your living room. I know these are as rare as any that we post on RSBFS, but the prices that the Lucky Strikes command is really hard to digest. I think I’d take my 10,000 go buy a NSR and have 4,000 to play with, but I’ve been known to be a bit of a cheap skate too.
Quotes from the auction:
All oem, all original with 2,600 miles. Everything works perfect and the bike is a 9 out of 10 to play it safe. New Dunlop Sportrax tires and 520 gold chain. No dents, scrapes, or bruises, runs and operates perfect. Fuel tank had some very light rust inside and was sealed with Caswell two part epoxy for good measure.
. It’s listed as a 7 day auction and it will have about 5 1/2 days remaining by the time you see this on RSBFS. So should you decide that you absolutely can’t live without a Lucky Strike rgv vj23 you will have plenty of time to count your Benjamans before the auction ends.
I almost forgot… Has anyone else noticed that sometimes the emblem on the gas tank reads to the rider and other times it reads to the front of the bike??
Here’s a RGV at idle for your viewing pleasure:
Cheers!
dd
I’m always game for a nice VJ23 and this one looks pretty good. I did notice a couple of things though. It is not bone stock. The rearsets are aftermarket and it has braided brake lines which were not stock. It is also a T model which was the restricted Japanese home market model. You can tell by the 180km speedo. Full power V models have 250km speedo. Lastly (I’m sure I’ll piss someone off with this), there is no such thing as a 1998 VJ23. They were all produced in late 95 early 96. They are all 1996 models. They did not sell well and were available in dealerships for several years afterwards. I’m not trying to be mean to the seller but there has always been a real lack of info on the 23. Just letting buyers know what they are looking at.
Ian-
thanks for the feedback. We certainly aren’t the “end all/know all” about every bike ever produced and we really appreciate your insight. I had a very similar situation with one of the RVF’s I posted a few weeks back in that it was being sold as a 98, but they stopped making them in 96. As it turns out, there were just that many unsold RVF’s after 96 so they kept upping the model year until they sold them all. I’m sure no one will get upset because in the end you are just sharing information about a rare bike.
Thanks again!
The early Luckys had the roundel facing the factory racer so he could see who was paying the billls.The later Luckys were fitted with onboard cameras and needed to show the public the Lucky Strike logo correctly so they would buy more smokes. The street examples were painted as the racers
Thanks for the info Jim. That makes total sense!
i want to by your bike, the suzuki and your honda if low mile and you would like to sell, thans steve