Optimistic sellers

[FlangMasterJ]

At least it's honest ...

Honest would be saying he's too much of a lazy dick to clean his bike.

[WALRUS]

Why are there suddenly so many early 80's dirt bikes for sale, and why are they all so overpriced!?

[babysteps]

Because some cockholster is trying to sell a zero km Honda that he thinks is worth it's weight in Gold. Then every hayseed with a junker in the shed thinks their wreck must be worth a fortune!

[F5 Dave]

Dirt bikes are such a risk. I mean reality is that unless you are buying a competitive vmx bike then why are you buying it? As a lounge art piece? Because unlike a roadbike which you can ride with sedate rose tinted glasses to have lunch in the countryside. chances are you can put it back in the garage with a wipe down and it looks like it did before .


With a dirt-bike you will quickly be reminded of the steep development progress and weight reduction and of course cover it in crap and throw it down a bank into a stream.

I'd offer that a dirt bike is less appealing prospect to ride for old chaps like us for above reasons than if we bought a nice 400/4. A 7 yr old dirt bike is cheap and capable enough to get our dirt jollies and not make us feel decrepit.

Surely that should limit the value. Heck maybe people aren't thinking before bidding. The Early TS250 with that snazzy heat shield could prompt a beer induced bidding frenzy in this Parrish when I need to save for my RD400.

[Voltaire]

The whole Classic Bike/Retro scene is powered by IPA and rose tinted glasses.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Dirt bikes are such a risk. I mean reality is that unless you are buying a competitive vmx bike then why are you buying it? As a lounge art piece? Because unlike a roadbike which you can ride with sedate rose tinted glasses to have lunch in the countryside. chances are you can put it back in the garage with a wipe down and it looks like it did before .


With a dirt-bike you will quickly be reminded of the steep development progress and weight reduction and of course cover it in crap and throw it down a bank into a stream.

I'd offer that a dirt bike is less appealing prospect to ride for old chaps like us for above reasons than if we bought a nice 400/4. A 7 yr old dirt bike is cheap and capable enough to get our dirt jollies and not make us feel decrepit.

Surely that should limit the value. Heck maybe people aren't thinking before bidding. The Early TS250 with that snazzy heat shield could prompt a beer induced bidding frenzy in this Parrish when I need to save for my RD400.

send me some pix of the RD400 and I will possibly make a cheeky offer. Win win.

[F5 Dave]

I haven't bought it yet.
Hard not to spend money on bits for existing bikes too. Let alone non-essentials like clothes and food.

[husaberg]

I haven't bought it yet.
Hard not to spend money on bits for existing bikes too. Let alone non-essentials like clothes and food.

You should have done what I did and just settled for a far easier to find RD350

[malcy25]

You should have done what I did and just settled for a far easier to find RD350

Was never fussed by the 400. Had a 350 l/c in 85. Had a B model a/c in early 2000's. Loved both. Rode a mates 400, not fussed at the time.

[husaberg]

Was never fussed by the 400. Had a 350 l/c in 85. Had a B model a/c in early 2000's. Loved both. Rode a mates 400, not fussed at the time.

I have a late frame and later closer ratio gearbox the same as a 400 to go with it.
But 50cc is extra torque to start with.
I still need a Pair of TRZ250 1KT or FZR1000 forks to add to the rest of the stuff I have accumulated for it though

[F5 Dave]

Had a 350 in my lockup for years I rescued after a mates domestic breakup and I wasn't going to let it rot outside as he struggled for room at his new house (didn't offer to look after his Ducati). I got him a buyer couple of years back. Not attracted to it, despite having one as my first road bike (complete with 250 stickers over the 350 ones). But a pillion ride as a youngster on a 400G cemented a love of bikes. And in particular 2 strokes. Only just kicked back in wanting one. Strangely ive never ridden one. Am prepared that it wont blow my socks off.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Was never fussed by the 400. Had a 350 l/c in 85. Had a B model a/c in early 2000's. Loved both. Rode a mates 400, not fussed at the time.

I did a lot of miles on an RD350LC in the 80's and really liked it. The RD400F (white, gold graphics, red stripe) is what I desperately wanted when I was a spotty 17 year old. I dont think I would own another 350LV (been there done that) but still have the horn for a 400. unrequited love and all that. often the wanting is better than the having ....

[Grumph]

The a/c 400 doesn't have the edge of the a/c 350. They went soft for a few years. Only with the intro of the 350LC did the sharp edge come back.
The 400 is like riding a fourstroke. Probably suited the market at the time as everything was being softened - see H1 D/E - but when I last rode one I was disappointed.

[ellipsis]

The a/c 400 doesn't have the edge of the a/c 350. They went soft for a few years. Only with the intro of the 350LC did the sharp edge come back.
The 400 is like riding a fourstroke. Probably suited the market at the time as everything was being softened - see H1 D/E - but when I last rode one I was disappointed.

...my girlfriends bro had the complete set of LC's when I was in the UK in the early eighties...our few hours a week of screaming around country lanes and being hoons was great fun, but everytime he said, 'which ones shall we use today', it inevitably came down to the 125 and the 350...the 250 and 400 always got left behind...I found the 400 to be all of the words Grumph used, soft, four strokeish etc...around the little leafy lanes, the 125 was more fun than anything I had ridden up til then...

[F5 Dave]

Oh well my 100hp 500 will be the exciting one of the stable.