Will the depressed pound equal price hikes for bikes?

[matlow]

In the great depression/bankers folly of 2008 one of the consequences was a real change in the value of the pound to the euro. A knock on effect was a glut of Europeans coming over here and snapping up cheap (to them) bikes, both new and used. The price of new bikes rose sharply around 2010 to compensate for the change in the pound.

Must be a possibility again with the whole Brexit deal affecting the value of the pound so significantly.


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[Rogerborg]

Can't see how it won't.

Long term, we might see a change in import duty on bikes.

Not necessarily for the better.

Euro4-bollocks is going to be a boot in the wallet as well.

I'm surprised that prices haven't shot up yet, but given how much got lopped off the sticker price of the ER6 and SFV650 when the MT-07 came out and undercut them, perhaps there's far more fat to trim from new bike prices than dealers like to claim.
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[linuxyeti]

It's already having a noticeable effect if you buy parts etc from abroad I'm already seeing price increases of stuff I look to import, of around 10-15%.
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[grr666]

Which is why I jumped in quick and bought new this year.
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[Rogerborg]

[andys675]

not any more than usual at Ducati

some haven't gone up at all (m821), biggest rise £400
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[Alex A]

Source?

[Suntan Sid]

[doggone]

If you have a trade in that should go up too - so in that scenario you won't be much worse off.
As above the less avoidable costs are spares and consumable items.

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[Alpineandy]

[Alpineandy]

[matlow]

Just done a bit of digging:

Original Yamaha R1 RRP £9,200 stayed the same for nigh on 10 years, 2007 R1 was actually less at £9,000! then the crash and the progressive rise, 2009 - 20011 was £10k then 2012 went up to £12k, finally the current R1 is 15k.

So in the first 10 years there was no inflation of the RRP, in the following period the price is over half again as much.

Now i accept that the current R1 is more of a revolution than an evolution and you explains a lot of the price increase. Maybe the change in price is a fairer reflection? After all i can't think of many things that stay the same price for 10 or more years? (disregarding things that don't receive updates and development).
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[stevo as b4]

First R1's were by today's and the period standards a Billy bargain. Remember that for the first 2-3years of R1 there were still parallel dealers with big ads in all the press of the time. I think the cheapest new European spec R1 I remember seeing was about 8800 otr. You'd have just about got a new Blade for 8grand dead, maybe hundred quid or so less, and I think ZX9R's were 8300 ish.

The boring bastards like me that are stuck in the 1985-2005 era never saw better bargains and so much bike for such reasonable cash. The thing is I look at an immaculate 5000mile ZX9R that's clean, fast and capable, and I don't see where the real big progress or leap in performance and handling is with your £15-16k R1's and BMW's of today?

The idiots behind the handlebars havnt got any faster, quicker reacting, safer or more intelligent, so why would they be better on a £15k bike?

[Alpineandy]

[Alex A]

[andys675]

[Alex A]

Link?

Does it cover 2017 models (many of which will be updated to meet Euro4)?

[el_oso]

Theresa May the other day repealed the Euro Act which makes all the euro laws void. The approach that they have taken though is to bring everything across and write it in the UK laws. Therefore all euro4 and euro5 bollocks would still apply, until they decide that they want to change it. I agree with Roger and I guess is that they will change it (eventually) unfavourably, possibly speeding up the clean energy revolution. It also wouldn't surprise me if they boycotted the euro regs and made their own more expensive version which basically shut motorcycle dealers out of the UK entirely.
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