Future Classics that are cheap to buy now?
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Not sure I'd call it a classic looking BMW
I'm trying to watch the telly, and this hook with a worm on it is dangling in front of the screen.
Ive got blonde hair and only 9 stone Rob !!!!
Suzuki GS750s are still quite cheap. The first jap bike with speed and handling.
boxerfrogs
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Now have spare frame and engine
What about Transalp? Got one of those in the garage a 99 with 2k on it..
Ooh! A '99 Tranny! Er..., will you be selling? If so, how much??!!
Wolfgang
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R1100RS
The daddy of the GS.
The first R259 engine.
Two grand gets you a nice one,they run forever.
The daddy of the GS.
The first R259 engine.
Two grand gets you a nice one,they run forever.
boxerfrogs
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A cheap (£3 to £5 grand?), fairly recent bike which will become a 'classic' (i.e. a wise, long-term investment)? A tricky, but fascinating question - one that I frequently ask myself when having a large scotch and poring through old bike mags.
First thing to consider (as someone mentioned earlier in this thread) is whether future bikers will covet and desire 'old' bikes with the same enthusiasm as we old farts currently do. Terrible thought, but maybe they won't. And the second thing to consider is whether 'old' bikes (using fossil fuels) will still be permitted on the roads of the future. If not, I presume values will drop (no point in having an unusable bike).
However, ignoring such negative considerations, here's my list of possible runners (interestingly, many of these bikes have already been mentioned, which is reassuring):
Ducati 916 (predictable, but maybe already too popular with investors)
Fireblade Urban Tiger (ditto above)
2002 Fireblade in white (Tadao Baba's last 'Blade and arguably his best)
851 Ducati (prices already rising)
998 Ducati (arguably the sexiest Duke)
F1 750 Ducati (prices already through the roof, unfortunately)
Yamaha RD500 (prices prohibitive)
Yamaha GTS1000 (quirky, getting harder to find a good 'un)
Honda VFR750 (the last year of production - '97?)
Honda VFR800i (pre-Vtec model)
Suzuki DR350 (a belter of a trail bike)
Honda Africa Twin (prices rising)
250 MZ (pre-Turkish built models)
BMW R100GS and R80GS (the daddys)
and lastly...
Honda Blackbird (injected model in black)
First thing to consider (as someone mentioned earlier in this thread) is whether future bikers will covet and desire 'old' bikes with the same enthusiasm as we old farts currently do. Terrible thought, but maybe they won't. And the second thing to consider is whether 'old' bikes (using fossil fuels) will still be permitted on the roads of the future. If not, I presume values will drop (no point in having an unusable bike).
However, ignoring such negative considerations, here's my list of possible runners (interestingly, many of these bikes have already been mentioned, which is reassuring):
Ducati 916 (predictable, but maybe already too popular with investors)
Fireblade Urban Tiger (ditto above)
2002 Fireblade in white (Tadao Baba's last 'Blade and arguably his best)
851 Ducati (prices already rising)
998 Ducati (arguably the sexiest Duke)
F1 750 Ducati (prices already through the roof, unfortunately)
Yamaha RD500 (prices prohibitive)
Yamaha GTS1000 (quirky, getting harder to find a good 'un)
Honda VFR750 (the last year of production - '97?)
Honda VFR800i (pre-Vtec model)
Suzuki DR350 (a belter of a trail bike)
Honda Africa Twin (prices rising)
250 MZ (pre-Turkish built models)
BMW R100GS and R80GS (the daddys)
and lastly...
Honda Blackbird (injected model in black)
RJT_Berlin
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I also reckon the 850GS......partly because they are relatively rare, but also because they are fine bikes in their own right
I had one..... Was a quality bike, my frst GS experience.....
Triumph Sprint Sport '97 -'98
Alledgedly only 225 made 125 in black the rest in orange.
I bought a black one
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Alledgedly only 225 made 125 in black the rest in orange.
I bought a black one
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Moto Morini 3 and a Half (the first wire wheel, drum braked Sport model)
Moto Morini 500 (early ones before the 6 speed gearbox "sei" models look best)
Ducati 900 SuperLight, and 900SS.
First year Yamaha R1 (but only in red and white)
First year Honda Fireblade
Urban Tiger Fireblade.
Yamaha XS650 (prices already climbing)
Honda AfricaTwin
Suzuki DR800 Big
Cagiva Elephant 900
Cagiva Raptor (TL1000 engine in better chassis, but rot quick.... so get a good one now and look after it)
Guzzi T3 or T3 California
Thats my thoughts....for what they are worth !
Moto Morini 500 (early ones before the 6 speed gearbox "sei" models look best)
Ducati 900 SuperLight, and 900SS.
First year Yamaha R1 (but only in red and white)
First year Honda Fireblade
Urban Tiger Fireblade.
Yamaha XS650 (prices already climbing)
Honda AfricaTwin
Suzuki DR800 Big
Cagiva Elephant 900
Cagiva Raptor (TL1000 engine in better chassis, but rot quick.... so get a good one now and look after it)
Guzzi T3 or T3 California
Thats my thoughts....for what they are worth !
Humbug
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Saw this in Fowlers, Bristol last week. Surely an appreciating classic if ever there was one? It really was in stunning condition. Less than 14,000 miles and priced at £3199.
http://www.fowlers.co.uk/used/
http://www.fowlers.co.uk/used/
Saw this in Fowlers, Bristol last week. Surely an appreciating classic if ever there was one? It really was in stunning condition. Less than 14,000 miles and priced at £3199.
http://www.fowlers.co.uk/used/
Hardly `Cheap to buy now` I would have thought.
Humbug
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For a bike that is "as new", yes that's cheap. Even more so if a deal can be done.
Mutley
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I'd have thought that most desirable 'classic' bikes were desirable at the time of production and have gone on to become icons. The Ducati 916 springs immediately to mind. Others were a leap forward (or any direction in the case of Wankel Nortons) in technology. Some just different.
I'm afraid an old lump of a Triumph doesn't do it for me. They were 'conservative' at best when in production. The styling was dull, the handling ordinary and the performance verging on the pedestrian. Just because it's low mileage, clean and well maintained doesn't make it a 'classic' it just makes it old
I'd have thought that most desirable 'classic' bikes were desirable at the time of production and have gone on to become icons. The Ducati 916 springs immediately to mind. Others were a leap forward (or any direction in the case of Wankel Nortons) in technology. Some just different.
I'm afraid an old lump of a Triumph doesn't do it for me. They were 'conservative' at best when in production. The styling was dull, the handling ordinary and the performance verging on the pedestrian. Just because it's low mileage, clean and well maintained doesn't make it a 'classic' it just makes it old
i agree.
and any racing heritage, even tenuous, helps.
I have to disagree, when if it was in very good condition with 25K on it would struggle to make a grand. It is also only a 750 which is the least desirable.
Farmboy
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Well heres my collection, total cost for both was about half the price of a lower end new mainstream bike so that must qualify for cheap to buy now 
I reckon both will be future classics as they are the bikes I lusted over when I was 17-18yrs old in the bike shops, fond memories of youth and getting thrown out of the shop for sitting on bikes all morning whilst trying to get my knee down on a GSXR sat on its side stand on the window plinth whilst making stupid engine noises when I thought no-one was looking
1989 RD03
1988 GSXR750
Chris
I reckon both will be future classics as they are the bikes I lusted over when I was 17-18yrs old in the bike shops, fond memories of youth and getting thrown out of the shop for sitting on bikes all morning whilst trying to get my knee down on a GSXR sat on its side stand on the window plinth whilst making stupid engine noises when I thought no-one was looking
1989 RD03
1988 GSXR750
Chris
Kneeslider916
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GPZ750R - a good 35,000 mile example picked up locally last autumn for £700...........................bargain, and as 900R's slowly go up should eventually pay me back.
