My bike is a future classic because...

[A100man]

[DJP]

An old, but good, thread.

When I look back at what's become classic it's generally once commonplace vehicles that weren't considered particularly special in their day, got abused out of existence and then suddenly there's very few decent ones left and they command a price premium.

Old rear wheel drive Ford Escorts are a good example: In the 80s a decent one with Tax & Test could be picked up for a few hundred quid. You'd keep it until it went wrong and then bin it. Now they're into the tens of thousands.

Old Brit bikes – unwanted and cheap as chips in the 80s, now “Classic”. Yamaha LCs – modified, trashed and crashed in the 80s, outdated and largely unwanted in the 90s and now decent ones are big money. I see the same happening with Suzuki Bandits – right now cheap enough to modify, thrash and crash but soon there'll be hardly any decent ones left and then up goes the price.
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[stinkwheel]

Old thread but hey.

I think owning a VFR750 and my two enfield bullets has been a good one. There's nothing else like the VFR, the last gen 750 was peak VFR in my opinion and the prices are starting to creep up as availability drops.

The bullets are likewise unique dinosaurs/relics and nobody will make anything like that ever again. Both are currently worth quite a bit more than I paid for them even though the 350 has astronomical miles and is now a well used and cosmetically suspect trials bike.

I also have an H100 and a YB100 in the shed. 2-stroke nostalgia tax. The H100 is good, the YB100 is shit but looks like a fizzy.

The Minsk 125 2-stroke is still worth fuck-all, but equally, is worth a fair bit more than they sold for new (which was also fuck-all, mine was £500 in 1995). Which just goes to show, rarity isn't everything. When did you last see a Minsk 125 that wasn't on TV under Richard Hammonds arse?
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[blurredman]

[A100man]

[WD Forte]

[DJP]

[A100man]

I do wonder if anything now is destined to be a future classic..

Theres a diminishing number of licence holders I think. Most folk at bike meets tend to be old buffers compared to 40 years ago, so lack of the next generation puts sought after bikes in doubt.

Apart from 916 and gen1 R1s what else this millenium is considered 'classic'? Speed Triple at a pinch?
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Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750

Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[DJP]

And they're both last millenium. [/pedantic mode]
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[MarJay]

[A100man]