Optimistic sellers

[jellywrestler]

but return on investment

see there's the difference, i own bikes that i'm interested in, yes some maybe rare and worth some coin but only when i no longer have them which is not what i plan for when i buy them, you seem to see things from a monetary point of view.
You base your knowledge on magazines, i'm rolling my sleeves up and playing with this shit
as for bantams being not wanted, they have always been sought after in some way or another, cause people made memories of them.

[jellywrestler]

It was the first bike I saw with a dash mounted gear indicator,

i've got about ten new old stock ones, do you want one for old times sake?

[pritch]

as for bantams being not wanted, they have always been sought after in some way or another, cause people made memories of them.

There was an old dude rode a Bantam when I was a kid, on his way home from work he would turn the gas off as he went past our house and his bike would stop running as he arrived home. He had it well worked out.

Present day, there is a 1%er up about where the old dude used to live, he owns Harleys now but his first bikes were BSAs and he currently has one as a restoration project. Past conversations suggest he would jump at the chance to buy a Bantam.

I can see the appeal even if I don't want one.

[F5 Dave]

The last line was a joke of course suggesting we all off and buy some dreary bikes of the 80s

But OK let's talk about your bikes, from memory one would have to say they were largely game changers. Astute buys at the right time if one did only consider them investments. But I don't remember any CB400Ns or suchlike.

Anyway now finally the small people are finally, mostly asleep after some protracted protest, I must go set the valves on an 80s GSXR400 I want out of the garage and back to its owner.

I'm still hankering for an RD400. Largely credited as the First mass production bike with mags. But I'd prefer the G which was the last air -cooled of run. Maybe more a game ender?

[AllanB]

I'd buy a Bantam. I even checked TM after reading the post.

[ellipsis]

...I very much wanted one when I was a kid, or something with a Villiers motor...

[F5 Dave]

I wanted a KZ400 then a TR1. But I got better.

[jellywrestler]

Largely credited as the First mass production bike with mags.

why does everyone think the japs started making motorcycles and inventing everything? this is from 1936, but further back google militaire from the teens

[T.W.R]

why does everyone think the japs started making motorcycles and inventing everything? this is from 1936, but further back google militaire from the teens

Don't mention the great grand daddy of all motorcycles

[jellywrestler]

Don't mention the great grand daddy of all motorcycles

you mean the harley's?

[F5 Dave]

Husqvanas are older.

[flashg]

Husqvanas are older.

Beta are old as well

[F5 Dave]

And I said largely credited and mass produced on purpose.

[flashg]

Just a bit slow getting the engine

[F5 Dave]

Yamaha started in 1887 but pianos or even bicycles aren't motorbikes.