My bike is a future classic because...

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CBF125 because in a few years time, even the garaged ones will have dissolved into brown sugar.

[Carvel]

[Derivative]

Always fancied a CBR600F myself. I do worry about them becoming less and less common.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Don't. There are literally squillions of them.
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[roboff94]

Think ive got in at about the right time with my NC30, as more and more get smashed up on tracks they'll carry on going up. Even nice ones now are getting abit silly i think. Mines not original enough to be worth a fortune, but then i enjoy riding it rather than looking at it haha

Then the H100, always be worth more than what i paid for it i think, its in good nick and 2 strokes in general are going up, even the not so desirable ones like mine. Still id rather hang onto it... does annoy me when anything 'rare' is automatically worth a fortune, its rare cause it was naff when it was new! haha

https://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee475/roboff/VFR400%20NC30%201989/36D9A695-298D-43AE-9A61-2844CA975909_zpszwynysos.jpg
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[Fladdem]

[mkjackary]

I can see the daytona 600/650/675 getting that status. Looks like triumph will stop making them in the next couple of years.
Possibly the last ever Triumph supersport?

And if they do survive, it will likely be in 765 form.

[Alpineandy]

I think we'll have a shortage of new 'Classic' bikes (and cars) in around 10-15 years time. Basically a bike will have to be a top end expensive superbike to justify keeping it on the road when the electronics start to play up. So although it's not difficult to swap over to a different engine management system (not cheap but not horribly expensive), getting one with all the additional functions built in will be prohibitively expensive unless you're prepared to make other changes like the gauges etc, which many see as a mongrel rather than a classic.

On top of this, the way speed limits are enforced as a money raising operation for the government which will be increased (maybe trying to make up for the dramatically reduced income from tobacco etc in the H&S modern world), many more will start to look for lower speed enjoyment. So IMO most late carb and early injection bikes will become wanted for the weekend biker as their sunny day trophy, but most newer stuff will be viewed as disposable.

But I may well be wrong
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Youngsters who weren't old enough to ride (insure) big, stonking superbikes when they were newish but lusted after them will go through the current range when they can. When they've been married for a bit, have a couple of teenage kids and with a secure job and a bit of cash in the bank, they'll find themselves trawling through the bay of E and they will convince themselves that they really need one.

I need a YZF750sp for the same reason. In pink and white.

So you're looking at early R1s, Fireblades, 916/748s, Hyabusa, zx10, GSXR1000 perhaps even zxr750, zx7r, TL1000s. 125cc 2 strokes, Mito, RS etc will always be popular by those forced to ride a cb125 at the time.

This demand for the big/fast stuff will then drag up the prices of the 'lesser' models R6, CBR600 etc etc as the full fat ones go up even higher.

After that, you're into niche markets, for example early Ducati 900 monsters are starting to creep back up in price after bumping around at £1.5-2k for a couple of years (they only made the S2r for a couple of years so fingers crossed it becomes even more desirable ).

However IMO, stuff like the kawasaki w650 will have such a limited market that they'll either be completely worthless, or there will be a small fan base that absolutely thinks they're the best thing in the world - as an example try and buy a Honda C90 C70 / C50...

[Rogerborg]

[Polarbear]

I think quite a few supersports will gain classic/very desirable status because it's a dying breed.

Who is going to be making them in 10 years as sales are crap & they already cost upwards of £15000 and lots more for the exotica offerings. People just aren't going to pay that for Sunday toys.
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[Kaya75]

bandit 1200 the 6? Maybe but classics love the raw power. Common? Ayi but then nowt as common as a vw beetle in their day.

This thread as gone awol imho. Some beautiful bikes for sure, most are already classics. Any car over 12 years old can be insured as classic. Idk about bikes catogrisation but fuk it I've gone off track..

A future classic call must be a bike less then 12 yrs old from the first model surely, or did I miss the point? I did drink whisky a hour ago..

So a bike model no older then say 10? 6? Fuk knows, but my bandit is 15 years old, it's nearly all stock and it had less the 20k on the clock when I brought it.. Was it a classic ? Is it a classics? Are bike years different to car years? Will obsolete CPUs kill the classic market? Will there be bearded computer scientist doing a sideline in early 21 century CPUs?

A way, I nominate the MT-9 and the R1.. Maybe I'd go Bmw GS because Landrover mk1.. And cuz I'm got beer goggles I'll throw in the Harley iron as well... All pretty iconic and just common enough to keep a stock of parts in the market... (Exc iron ref:Harley's deals hips (terms n conditions..)
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[wr6133]

My GSXR1000 will be a classic because.

It's an early one with laughably low mileage in extremely good condition.

It has the correct period drool worthy extras.

It's the correct colour.

When they launched the 1000 it blew everything else out of the water so there are lots of people going to be looking back with rose tinted glasses in the future wanting one because they couldn't afford first time round.

However mine will actually end up worth fuck all because I intend to ride it to death in all weathers.

[venari]

Yamaha FZR 400

https://raresportbikesforsale.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Screen-shot-2011-07-05-at-6.25.40-PM.png

Never sold in the UK but a very common import. Considered cutting edge at the time.

"Best handling bike ever made."
"The original race rep."
"My first sports bike."

I believe prices right now might be at the lowest point they will get.

Give it 10 years and the guys who imported them will be wanting to buy them back - trouble with this theory is that they are small sporty bikes and therefore not ideal for older riders. Even through pink glasses...

Also, everyone who imported one probably did so because they couldn't afford a two-stroke at the time so the two-strokes will always win.

Also, parts can be a pain to find which will affect the prices.

I wouldn't be too disheartened if it ended it's life in a ditch - I love riding it but I bought it cheap and it's tired.
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[Billy Balthorpe]

I'm with Pidgeon with the CBR600F Sport. The best handling bike I have ever ridden bar none. Leant it over so far going round the Melbourne loop that it folded the pegs up and ground my boot into the ground until there was a 4 inch hole in the side, powerslides on the way out too.

I know they are a bit old but,

CBR600F, the first one, the one with the plain Blue/White or White/Red or Red/White, the ones that have CBR in the stripe which goes from the front lower of the fairing to the end of the tailpiece. I reckon they will go up over the next few years.

One I sort of hope (but don't really care) goes up in value is the pre-EXUP 1987-1988 FZR1000, ive got 2 original red/white/blue ones. They were (for me anyway) the first proper big supersport bike, faster than a GPZ9R, proper beam frame, great 5 valve engine, the front end feels better the more you push it, I still cant believe how quick they spin up, 160mph and roomy fairing built for proper sized blokes. The pegs are high, the reach long, and the clutch crap, till you get used to how to launch it. I used to trackday mine back then, top end of the inter group, 13 year old bike, bog standard apart from the pipe, the oldest bike there by 9 years, bloody great it was, in particular I remember embarrassing some Blade riders id met the day before at Kawasaki City in stoke who sniggered when I told them what I was doing their trackday on.
It was the bike I owned when I met my Mrs, so she was happy that i'd bought one to "restore". It was the first bike she had ever rode pillion on too, first time she ever sat down on any bike, and we didn't stop till we got from Stoke to the services at J8 M5. I laughed, she didn't, by Pembrey she had cheered up a bit, but not much.
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[Suntan Sid]

[Billy Balthorpe]

[kev2b4]

Classic (Bikes) insert other vehicle/stamps etc. are only worth what people will pay for them - Trabant anyone?
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[chickenstrip]

[stevo as b4]

Surely classic has to be related to strong prices today for what are 15,20,30year old bikes.

Price/value isn't the only indicator of being a classic but it has to be a very good indicator of it when some bikes are really going up in value compared to say when they were 5-6 and out of date/ignored for newer limelight machines.

Price and thus classic status is normally based on the equation of Rare vs desirable. You can have bikes that are both and they are virtually assured classic status. But you can get rare undesirable bikes, and desirable bikes like the CBR600 say, that will never be rare in our lifetimes.

There's a few bikes that I've mentioned before that don't fit the generalisations though. One example is the RGV250 VJ23. Its rare being only about 1500-2000 of them made in.the mid-late nineties. But it was only ever a grey import and we never saw them in the day on UK roads.

The VJ21/22 was a popular small sportsbike and the most advanced of its type in the day, with lots of people in comparison having had them as their second bike in the early-mid nineties. By those rights because they were popular, nostalgic and available they should be worth more than a bike we never really saw in the UK.

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[A100man]

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