Used quad bikes in Melbourne typically sell for A$1,150 to A$7,650 (about $810 to $5,400). Quad bikes sell fast, and the two questions that decide the price are whether it is road legal and whether you can prove you own it — theft is common enough in this market that buyers ask.
Selling a quad bike in Melbourne
Melbourne has the strongest vintage and op-shop culture in Australia and a large student population across several universities, so buying second hand here is entirely ordinary. It is also the country’s music city, which keeps instruments, amps and records moving in a way they do not everywhere.
Students arrive in February and leave in November, which inverts the northern-hemisphere rhythm. The inner suburbs also carry a lot of share-house accommodation, and share houses reshuffle constantly rather than seasonally.
On anything stored in a garage or shed, check for damp. The winters here are wetter and colder than the city’s reputation suggests, and fabric and particle board both suffer for it.
Melbourne has around 5.1 million people in Victoria, which means a buyer pool big enough that almost anything finds someone, and close enough together that collection is rarely the obstacle. Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Melbourne
Australia Post covers everywhere, but distance pricing is real and interstate parcels cost meaningfully more than local ones.
What quad bikes are worth
What lifts the price
- Recent service with belt or chain attended to
- Good tyre tread and working brakes
What pulls it down
- Missing or unclear paperwork
- Heavily worn tyres and seized brakes
Working out what yours is worth
- Check the frame and welds carefully for cracks
- Start it from cold and test the brakes
Getting it ready
- Gather the registration document if it is road registered, plus the original purchase receipt and any service history.
- Start it, run it, check the brakes, and inspect the tyres, chain or shaft drive and the CV boots.
Photograph
- The engine, exhaust and drive components
- The tyres and controls, plus any crack, weld, bent frame section or damage
Put in the description
- Two-wheel or four-wheel drive, and manual or automatic
- Frame and engine numbers, and the ownership paperwork you can supply
Make, model, engine size, year and road status: “[Make] 350cc Quad Bike, 2018, Road Registered, V5C Present”. Engine size is the search and road legality is the filter. Say plainly if it is farm or off-road use only, because it changes who can buy it and what for.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Victoria)
Common questions
Where can I sell a quad bike in Melbourne?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Has the frame ever been welded?
Inspect it and disclose any repair. A welded frame is a structural matter on a machine that gets used hard, and it must not be a discovery.
How much is a quad bike worth in Melbourne?
Most used quad bikes change hands for A$1,150 to A$7,650 (about $810 to $5,400). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling a quad bike across Australia, what quad bikes are worth, everything second hand in Melbourne, or Vehicles in Melbourne.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.