{"id":10871,"date":"2026-04-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:38:57","slug":"sold-the-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/sold-the-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold the Indian :("},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sold the Indian FTR tonight. Got my full asking price. Cleaned it up, had a full tank of gas in it from the last time I rode it. Kid called Jack, a UPS driver who lives west of Charlottesville. Gave him everything\u2014saddlebag, oil change kit, parts, Cruztools kit, service manual, original tank panels, all of it. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find something else later, so I got his address so I could box whatever it is up and get it to him. He didn\u2019t negotiate, he was really hot to get the bike and I set a reasonable price. He paid with a cashier\u2019s check through his credit union, which was a little weird on my end. I had to call them and give them info off the title\u2014I&#8217;m sure they were verifying it didn&#8217;t have a lien on it and that it actually existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook Marketplace for the win, I guess, even though I had to field a couple dozen &#8220;I&#8217;ll give you $6,000 cash for it, can come get it tonight&#8221; messages. Yeah, I bet you would give me six for it, you daffy bastards, it&#8217;s probably worth twice that much. It&#8217;s nice to not be desperate to sell and have the luxury of plenty of time. It&#8217;s one time (at least) that patience has paid off for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll call the insurance agent and go to DMV and the bank Monday to close out that era of my life. Even though I know I got the FTR as my mid-life crisis uplift and it was hard on my stinking arthritic knee the past two years, it was surprisingly emotional to say goodbye to the bike. I couldn\u2019t watch him drive away with it in the back of his dad\u2019s truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was\u2014<em><strong>IS!<\/strong><\/em>\u2014a great bike. I\u2019ll miss it, but it was also time to sell it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_jack-ftr-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10872 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_jack-ftr-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10872 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_jack-ftr-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_jack-ftr-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_jack-ftr-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_jack-ftr.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold the Indian FTR tonight. Got my full asking price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10874,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions\/10874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}