13 k kat

[johnr]

still on ebay, still unsold, still 13 grand. still deranged. i cant be arsed to write the list of whats wrong with this, but for a start, its 10 grand overpriced.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GSX100 ... SwCU1Ytmv5

[stockcar]

do you think you could find a "thou" for £3K in reasonable nick these days even if it was not quite right spec wise??

[fossie]

Aw come on it was nearly £15.000 to start with.
Yep well over priced especially when there are others on the same page for much less.
Indeed there is a list of bits not right , if you are going to pay top money .

[johnr]

do you think you could find a "thou" for £3K in reasonable nick these days even if it was not quite right spec wise??

nah, thous werent ever cheap. but theyve all gone now. any thou thats not been updated with modern running gear is under the flag of 'rare classic' and has a suitably inflated pricetag. the only chance anyone has of getting a cheap thou is if they find a bike for sale where the seller doesnt realise what they have, and i couldnt personally fleece someone like that.
i think we are all 10 years too late for cheap kat 1000s

[stockcar]

that was my thoughts also, was just intrigued by your comment but presumed it was a little tongue in cheek..........

always amazes me that certain older mainstream vehicles have gone mental price wise and other genuine "classics" dont seem to suffer the same possibly over-inflated costs........

[johnr]

i think there are two types of classic and the prices are driven by two entirely seperate theorys. on the one hand, there are old bikes, old brits, propper classic bikes that people want because they are bikes they have seen in images or the flesh and have wanted and subsequently sought out for the pleasure/kudos of owning one. because its a bike from an earlier era than they had experienced. an example would be the brit bikes in my shed, dating from a quarter century before i was born. i love them for their history, simplicity and the feeling that im riding a piece of historic value.
the other classic movement, and its no less valid, is the bikes of our youth. we seek out either the bikes we yearned for but never had, or the bikes that we owned and want to recapture our youth on. only this can explain the meteoric values of fs1e's in recent years either folks want to rekindle their youth, or else they want to be seen as being in that movement because they never had one last time round.
at some time, the two merge, bikes will become genuinely classic bikes after being modern classics. stuff like the z1 and cb750, kawasaki triples and now it seems, kats and gsxr's. but as we saw a few years back when the 'classic car and bike' bubble of the 1990s burst and suddenly peoples investment vehicles plummeted in value, theres no guarantee of these vehicles being gilt edged moneymakers.

[fossie]

Only 12 grand now only 2 years of reductions at this rate to wait 'till it meets expectations .