Optimistic sellers

[F5 Dave]

There are several drivers for this (read cost of living), but catching our first time investors who cottoned on to the fact that prices of vehicles of our yoof keep increasing in value. It's kinda a new thing as we find ourselves with disposable income, better health than before and a desire to Peter Pan ourselves.

An economist will likely sneer and point out parallels.

But unlike houses which people need to live in and sit on (hopefully) forever land; you don't Need a Bonnie.

And people think they are immortal so never anticipated that they would Age Out of riding that increasingly unweildy machine.
Nevermind, I'll just sell it.
Oh. Everyone else of the age that wanted one has come to the same conclusion and is counting pennies having been retired a while and consider downsizing their everything.

I have a fairly broad education having absorbed many old bike magazines over the decades, but most people my age were like the Bonnie buyer 20 (30, 40?) years ago. Except we probably want an Injected GSXR or a Repsol Blade.

Wish I'd never sold [insert model]. . .

And so it will continue, and this thread is validating itself more than I realised all those (12) years ago. Wish I'd started it. I didn't appreciate Aging Out. At all.

Pick up a Classic bike magazine (showing your age buying paper) and they can't help mentioning a 'Softening of prices' on old British bikes, read: market is falling in on itself.

The trick is to buy an asset before it is on the rise, then sell before peak and definitely before the asset is no longer an asset.

Anyone want to buy my phone card collection?

[F5 Dave]

Strange, Stylo has deleted his post here so next post looks odd but here it is:

There is no phone card collection. I was giggling back in the day how they would never be worth anything. Then cell phones happened, didn't predict that, but it shows how a shaky investment is no investment.

My first car was a Victor 3.3 (Dad had a 3.3 Ventora but was too young to remember it).
The Victor was an impulse when a friend almost bought it, somehow I did.

Took it for a warrant and got a page back of faults.
British cars were not Toyotas and wore everything out as they were built to a much lower standard.
It broke down and I took about a year to fix it and be shot of the piece of shit.

It would be a pile of dust now that only a broom could sweep.

Girlfriend said she liked the bike better.

I bought my 2nd car 5 years ago.

[SaferRides]

they didnt have twin discs did they?

No, but you needed them!

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[Dak S83]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/5757891687

[F5 Dave]

Nice. I particularly like how the seat and tank flow together like they were made for each other
. . . Just not as a seat or a tank.

[F5 Dave]

Super mild traily. Nice for you 16yr old or wife.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/5758294738


How much for a 15yr old dirtbike?

[F5 Dave]

So , um, piss off.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/5791899098

[Kickaha]

So , um, piss off.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/m...ing/5791899098

That's not unreasonable for something like that

[pritch]

That's not unreasonable for something like that

Proving that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[F5 Dave]

Looks like a collection of ill fitting parts dropped in the right order to almost resemble a motorcycle.
Too ugly/fucked to be collected.
Too old for someone to care to race it.

Be somewhat noisy.

[husaberg]

Looks like a collection of ill fitting parts dropped in the right order to almost resemble a motorcycle.
Too ugly/fucked to be collected.
Too old for someone to care to race it.

Be somewhat noisy.

I'd fancy a VMX cr250 about 85-89

[F5 Dave]

And you are probably at the age where you could vmx for another say 5 years before you start yammering on about dicky knee. Anyone coverting a triumph for dirt use is more likely looking at apartments in a BobScott village.

[husaberg]

And you are probably at the age where you could vmx for another say 5 years before you start yammering on about dicky knee. Anyone coverting a triumph for dirt use is more likely looking at apartments in a BobScott village.

I have a few of old BSA's two 650s and a 250 plus some period puka purebred real ''Scamblers'' not so nostalgic about biffing about any of these on about in the dirt. but the late 80s CR250 appeal as they can be made nearly as good as a modern one suspension wise.Plus look ultra cool. My son can crash them though he heals faster. Since i fractured by back and humerus as few years ago i am not so keen to push them too hard.
He got he Std untuned Motard down to 1.43.15 on the weekend at the SOT.