The ST certainly is distinctive. There's a you tube video of a bloke taking one round the Nordschleife circuit quite quick........
Which Modern bikes will become Classics?
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I think (hope) the pilot jests....
Not at all.
Looking at the current classic bike situation it looks like the 70s stuff is still strong but the supply of resto bikes is drying up. The early 80s bikes like the GPz1100, GS1000, GSX1100 , cbx1000 are all going up in price. Forget your RG and RD 500 they are mad money and hard to find.
The next bikes that will start generating interest are things like GPZ900A1s, GSXR750 &1100, FZ750 and VFR1000R. These are the bikes the 50+ crowd drooled over as teenagers and still hold a connection with.
The next bikes that will start generating interest are things like GPZ900A1s, GSXR750 &1100, FZ750 and VFR1000R. These are the bikes the 50+ crowd drooled over as teenagers and still hold a connection with.
My mate has just bought an R1100s. Not as a future classic but as a second bike to enjoy on the odd (rare) sunny day. But I reckon it could be a winner.
Stock photo, but his is in mint condition with 15000 miles and fsh. What a bike for £2500!
Stock photo, but his is in mint condition with 15000 miles and fsh. What a bike for £2500!
I think Cpt Bigglesworth might be having a lend of usI think (hope) the pilot jests....
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The brief appearance of a GPZ900R in TG2 will boost demand for them a bit but they’ve been fetching decent money for a while now so I think the biggest difference will be how quickly they go rather than how much they go for.
I annoyed my wife a while ago by showing her adverts for GPZ750 Turbos because she sold hers about 10 years ago for half their current asking prices but I might be able to talk her into getting rid of her 916 before it needs the belts changing without being ridden again
916 dukes are already fetching big money. If you’ve got a foggy rep or spa then they are in the 25/30k mark.The brief appearance of a GPZ900R in TG2 will boost demand for them a bit but they’ve been fetching decent money for a while now so I think the biggest difference will be how quickly they go rather than how much they go for.
I annoyed my wife a while ago by showing her adverts for GPZ750 Turbos because she sold hers about 10 years ago for half their current asking prices but I might be able to talk her into getting rid of her 916 before it needs the belts changing without being ridden again
Two or three come to mind for me. The RSVR Gen 1, Honda SP1 and 997/998 Dukes. Having ridden them all, as a road bike, I much preferred the RSVR to the others. I got a chance to swap from my RSV to a 998 at the IoM and take it over the mountain, and then onto an SP1. Had much more confidence in the RSV which also seemed to have the more characterful engine of the three and was by far the most comfortable to ride.
Interestingly I did a video on an early Fireblade a really nice one in Castrol livery, it is one of my my least viewed videos while the MZ250 has had 23 times more viewsthe first blade is already regarded as a Classic
Isn't that interesting??? Not just a few more, many many times more.
Yep MZ 84,000 - Fireblade 3,500
Could be that we are a classic bike channel - or a Fireblade fan might look at our name and think we are a group of crinkly old gits who know nothing about sportsbikes, mabe we should have a name change to "Crazy Fast hair on fire spit on your Grandma Gang"
I think it's our age.
On Fortnine's channel, I have re-watched both the piece on the Silver Wing, and the Ural, whilst I've never bothered to watch the KTM 390 or 1290 episodes once. For some of us, old/quirky bikes are just so much more interesting I suppose.
The SR500 very successfully pulled off the 'ageing motor dressed up as a classic' trick while the Honda XBR500, in my mind, never did.
Mind you, Honda sold bucket loads of XBRs so what do I know!?
Absolutely -
What are you going to click on, a video of a Fireblade or a video of an MZ ?? It's a no brainer for us lot. The Fireblade is one amazing, iconic motorbike but it's all a bit beyond our ability to deal with, even an old one. But an MZ, a dead simple quirky little thing that you have to mix oil and fuel just to get the thing to run (just like that Bantam/Lambretta/Villiers/Franny B that you had when you were 17) Even then it might be a pig to start and won't tick over. But what fun when it gets going. When it goes beyong that 'four stroking' that they do and clears it's throat - what a laugh !!! You can handle all it's performance (eh?) wring it's neck and it won't get too out of shape - sub 75 MPH fun.
EKIMYRF - I'm one of those that have watched the MZ video but not the Fireblade video. If they were parked up next to each other then I would walk over for a squint at the MZ before the 'Blade.....and I bet that you would too.
Difficult to explain eh???
But the GB500TT ( same engine, frame as xbr) did achieve the classic look ….shame they never officially imported it to the UK….a mistake by Honda imho.The SR500 very successfully pulled off the 'ageing motor dressed up as a classic' trick while the Honda XBR500, in my mind, never did.
Mind you, Honda sold bucket loads of XBRs so what do I know!?
It would indeed, to me the Fireblade (superb though it is) is whitegoods
the MZ has a soul
yep hard to explain
I had an XBR, great little bike, nicknamed “The Atrocious”, from supercalifragilisticeXBRatrociousMind you, Honda sold bucket loads of XBRs so what do I know!?
The SR500 very successfully pulled off the 'ageing motor dressed up as a classic' trick while the Honda XBR500, in my mind, never did.
Mind you, Honda sold bucket loads of XBRs so what do I know!?
I know this an older thread, but along the line of SR500 do you think Yamaha's SR400 might become one? Normally I would think a modern retro classic wouldn't become a true classic but Honda's GB350 almost seems to have. Pretty nice, low mileage, SR400's can be found for $4,000. https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...wse_serp:9053b271-e6a0-472f-ba61-dddf167f7509
Or will the new 400 singles from India now hinder interest in a bike like this?
Perhaps the other way round, now that the 400 class in general is getting our attention, maybe the older ones will com back onto our radar.
I can't comment on the SR400, I don't think that was sold in the UK. (Though I stand to be corrected)!
