"New" R100 Airhead

[Joe Bar]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R100-brand-new-never-ran-/302189037182

Looks lovely, but I reckon it'll need more than a new battery and some fuel in the tank before riding off into the sunset on it.

 

[solidstate100]

As great as that is, I keep returning to this one.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1953-BMW-...473084?hash=item1ebad3f9bc:g:wH8AAOSwcLxYEOD6

Happily have either in my dream collection.....

 

[peepingtom]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R100-brand-new-never-ran-/302189037182

Looks lovely, but I reckon it'll need more than a new battery and some fuel in the tank before riding off into the sunset on it.

I'd just seen that myself, what a lovely thing to have even if it does just sit in the hallway. Will need new brake fluid by now

 

[rocky burns]

Even I like that and I'm not old

 

[B Murr]

Very nice and nice to know that there are still such things out there. I don't know if I could resist riding it though if I had it.

 

[Kenny]

Such a waste.....only worth half of that if subsequently played with on the road. I'm sure there has been a similar 'new' model R100RS been trying to be sold for about 2 years now ! Very nice though, shame it isn't a CS or S model.

 

[FatAl]

If you want a bike to keep in your house and gawp at, buy one that doesn't work and polish it up. The things were made to be ridden, not feckin' ornaments!

Ride them, don't hide them.

 

[B Murr]

makes this K100 look cheap. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201320191938?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[solidstate100]

I would buy that (if I could afford it!) - cracking bike.

Is it just me but I am seeing quite a few "new old stock" bikes recently, and, well, im deeply suspicious......

 

[markjackson]

I guess bikes that appeared near the end of a model life sometimes went through a cycle of:

Sat in a showroom, waiting to sell.

Passed by, when they didn't really meet the requirements of the time (i.e when today's 40-50 year olds were that age, would we want a K100? I wanted an RC30 or 1000EXUP)

Still there, as a conversation point, slightly out of date. New model is out. Plenty available used. Not fashionable.

Still there, something quite unusual, not worth much so adds more value as a conversation piece than it would to sell.

Still there; "Never gonna sell it!" the odd punter remarks that 'That'll be worth summit one day'.

Still there; nostalgia effect starts to increase interest… "I used to have one of them, it was great!" Becomes a bit of a punter (of a certain age) attractant.

Still there; the people that were too young to afford one back in the day, or were old enough to get, enjoy and then sell one back in the day, now have disposable income…


Bang! it's suddenly worth selling. And someone has invented Ebay for rabid nostalgists. Yay!

 

[B Murr]

Some of the very low mileage bikes that came up in recent auctions seemed to have come from museums, a fair few were described as havingh come from Japan. So, perhaps some motor museums find that public interest has waned in some of these models and they dispose of the stock then.