"sought after"

what makes a sought after bike?
Reliability?
The limited manufacturer run?
Exotism?
Uniqueness?

I'm contemplating what bike I should stick in the lounge room
to afford my retirement in 35 years time.


vifer
'97 vfr750
'81 CX500

 

Green frame Duke, Black shadow and a few 500-750 triples(kawa)

rodent

 

Pfft! Buy a painting; bikes are for RIDING!!
Clem

 

Rossi's motogp bike would be a nice start.

Maybe a gold-plated R1150GS?

Hatz's next bike - would have very low km's.

Checa's uncrashed bike (any)

 

Put the CX500 in the lounge room, and your money into a worthwhile
investment. Bikes ain't it.

-----sharks

 

And HD's. How the hell have they defied the odds of extinction
and continue to sell bikes. Fundamentally, what's keeping them afloat?.
Boutique merchandising??.

 

To start, I'd find out which bike(s) people bought 35 years ago and stuck in
their lounge rooms which are now being sold for millions of dollars in order
to fund their retirements... and then I'd find an alternative investment
which would fund my retirement in 10 or 15 years instead.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2

 

~
Providing what their market wants to buy (instead of trying to dictate to the market!).
Simple!
Clem

 

Let's see. 1968 saw the BMW R50, Triumph Trident , BSA 441, Honda 305,
race creed HD KR750. Dunno hard to say .....I'll go the KR750.

Enough to retire on? probably not. then again it depends on your needs.


vifer

 

If you need to ask....

 

No bike will enable you to afford your retirement.

Just stick the money you would have bought it with in a term deposit
and leave it there.

 

The BMW R50 was in production from 1955-1961

The BMW R50/2 was in production from 1961-1969

Boxer

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:50:19 GMT

You should have done that 40 years ago.

Then you could have bought a Brough and sold it in the mid 80s.

Otherwise it won't work, cos the conditions that made a few bikes go
stratospheric won't come again.

In the mid 80s you had a huge number of people - the infamous baby
boomers - who had fantasised about bikes as kids and were heavily cashed
up, plus a smaller number of older bods who were also cashed up.

in 35 years time there won't be as many cashed up bods and almost none
of them will hve been riding bikes when young and want to buy a fancy
bike.

So yo ucan't do that with a bike, you need to find something that cashed
up middle aged bods will want who are teenagers now.

So buy a gold plated Playstation or something.

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:32:32 GMT

Yup. But it's not all image.

There's also simplicity, and lack of pressure. Buy a sportbike and
there's the expectation of going fast, which a lot of people don't want
to do. Buy a hog, and just cruise.

They know their market, and target it very well indeed. A massive
success story that makes a lot of people jealous. People wouldn't slag
them off otherwise...

Zebee

 

That could be why the green led labelled SITUATION NORMAL is blinking
merrily away on my console.

 

"Dull" yes. "Practical" however, is a rare event and should be treated with
awe and wonder.

Manning

 

Manning said....


Ma> Your odds at investing in vanity items (like motorcycles, cars, art, wine
Ma> etc) are not as good as going down to the RSL and playing the pokies. For
Ma> every big time winner there are thousands of losers.

What do you reckon about the purchasing of a Ducati 888 as an
"investment"? A mate did this a few years back. He bought it new, with
the intention of storing it. The bike has seen some rides. Dunno what
it's worth these days, nor do I know what he paid for it. But if it's
like any other Duke that I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if it's
"depreciated" dramatically.

As an example, another mate had a Ducati 996 Strada. He paid $36,000 for
it in 1998. 3 years later he sold it for about $17k.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:35:52 GMT

Like everything else, gotta pick your Duke.

When they made few bikes and those hard to get and umm... "for
enthusiasts only", then the rep was such that people would buy them.
But even then only the right ones - try making a profit on a parallel
twin, or a stock Darmah,

Some you can still sell if you wait for the buyer, but the number is
slowly dropping.

If you sold a good bevel 900SS early model in the mid 80s, you'd make a
packet. You'd probably still sell it for good money, but you'd wait a
fair old while for a buyer. Couldn't beat 'em off with a stick if you
wanted to sell a 750F1 at one point, hard to shift now.

As for 8 valves.... well the early ones were overtaken dead quick by
the later ones, and each year Ducati bring out a bigger and better, so
who wants very old tech now?

I paid top dollar for my single in 1989. I could still get top dollar
for it, but the profit would be about 2 grand. Could have invested the
money and made more than that.

In 30 years someone may want to buy your mate's 888. But I bet more
will want a 916...

Zebee

 

Which will leave you a negative rate of return adjusted for inflation and bank
fees after tax.

JL*
(over an 20 year period the share market will out perform property which will
outperform bonds which will outperform fixed term deposits)
*Financial Consultant before I swapped across to IT

 

You can have my 1989 model Kwaka ZXR400 for a measly 20grand. you
won't find too many around, it's got character, comes with a full set
of carbon fibre fairings(though the sides don't look too good anymore
after tearing off at 200km/h). It's a modern classic
Mark