Ok - this takes the cake - a 20 year old 250 for $7200

**Boob Johnson** · 30th July 2008, 00:58

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

That makes one of us...

Tempting to ask "If it's going up in value - why are you selling it?"

Because they are a bike shop, not a museum

Possible that is will go up in value, who knows? Its "apparently" got 13k on it from new so not only are they harder to find but its got super low mileage. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't pay that for it, the bike means nothing to me but it might to someone who collects bikes.

**geoffm** · 30th July 2008, 21:30

Originally Posted by FROSTY

yep hes motoworld powersports in albany

I think he is the guy who had a RG500 for $15k - repainted in non standard olours, oddball fairing, no service history (vital on these, especially gearboxes), etc. Not mint enough nor modified enough to be interesting. There was a tidy original one in Otago for $10k, which is (top) market value. Asking about twice it's worth - it is a limited market for big 2 strokes that cost more than a V8 to run.
Geoff

**gammaguy** · 30th July 2008, 23:46

mine does not cost more than a V8 to run...more like a six

unless you factor in tyres and synthetic 2T oil at $40 a litre.....um...ok.fair point

**barty5** · 31st July 2008, 10:59

Originally Posted by gammaguy

mine does not cost more than a V8 to run...more like a six

unless you factor in tyres and synthetic 2T oil at $40 a litre.....um...ok.fair point

Must be thirsty bike my v8 eats up 16-17L per 100ks round town although when towing bike on open road that still dosnt change much. with out the trailer i have had it down to 12L.

**Insanity_rules** · 31st July 2008, 12:30

Originally Posted by avgas

Meh it could go for that figure.
I had a mitsi sapporo for a few years, fantastic car - but i could not believe the value it was worth as a collectors item.
Here i was, poor student with a mint condition one sitting in the shed.
In the end i swapped it for cool ZXR. But while in Japan i got to go to a 'classic' car dealer.
Over there your all fancy if you have the original Fiat 500 or a Austin Healey. You keep you orginal showroom condition 1960's Mazda Cosmo in the shed - as its worth too much money to drive.
Likewise buying a Triumph 650 Bonnie in Kyoto was like winning instant kiwi. But owning a RG500 was like winning lotto.

Oh my god, I had an 82 sapporo in the early 90's. Are they really collectible? Mine was a fully loaded minter import with the 2.6 motor and 5 speed, even had the vox box that gave spoken warnings. They did look the part didn't they?

I know a few of the bikes that have passed through my hands would now be worth a bit though ie my old walter wolf.

**gammaguy** · 31st July 2008, 18:25

axually the RG gets 45MPG on a trip

its tuned.

**driftn** · 31st July 2008, 20:10

Originally Posted by Insanity_rules

Oh my god, I had an 82 sapporo in the early 90's. Are they really collectible? Mine was a fully loaded minter import with the 2.6 motor and 5 speed, even had the vox box that gave spoken warnings. They did look the part didn't they?

I know a few of the bikes that have passed through my hands would now be worth a bit though ie my old walter wolf.

I regret selling my pepsi rgv. That was a quick little bike and hoist the front wheel off the pipe in second with a tug on the bars.

If your going to buy a 250 2 stroke it has to be an rgv or kwaka kr1

**zxcvbnm** · 31st July 2008, 22:55

He's cornering the expensive bike market.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-168771755.htm

Wonder what his profit margin is.
http://www.goobike.com/cgi-bin/fsear...dxname=gb_bike

**gammaguy** · 31st July 2008, 23:13

guess hes trying to see what he can get away with.thing is most ppl with $65000 to spend can afford to go on teh web and import one of their own.even the spark plugs for those things are nearly $100 each,whoever bought it would probably be scared to ride it,and as for getting it insured for when it falls over and scratches the titanium screen....

**MaxB** · 31st July 2008, 23:45

Originally Posted by FROSTY

I remember well when these things came out. A whole bunch of us 250 proddy guys waited till bloody close to nats start for em to arrive.
The problem we had was we all got the low powered Jap market model TZR rather than the "rest of the world" bikes.
Yamahe dealerships then were busy trying to get the HP out of the new bikes for us.
You'd get the HP then the bike would seize -so you'd back things off a bit. and they'd be slower than the old TZR's
BUT that said the seizing up was ONLY after we tried in vain to get full HP out of them --in the factory Jap (slow) spec they were pretty reliable.

Yep +1 for that. I was into drag racing 2T back in the day and none of those reverse cylinder Yammies ever made it to the start line. Tuning for more power = seized motor. The older motor was better.

**gammaguy** · 1st August 2008, 20:56

i have a TDR 250 with the 1KT motor in it.bog standard and ridden hard,it has 54000km on it,now on first oversize due to a stripped oil pump drive gear(!)10,000km ago.its a reliable and powerful unit.the Reverse cylinder engine had a lot of problems mainly in the carburation.It was a classic case of rushing an unproven design to market back in those heady days of all the 2T makers trying to out do each other.sometimes less is more