t3racing wrote:I would say a reasonable track bike as i may need to find one for next year if i wish to attend the 2 stroke track days!
I may just build up my wet bike with a dry clutch motor, fresh top end, the NSR-World bodywork and advertise it while I build up the road bike (read van full of bits) I fetched from the IOW yesterday.
RS_BOTT, the problem with comparing bikes sold privately with bikes sold in Fastline etc. is that bikes sold privately do run and are in use, the ones just imported have sat for 10 years or more in a container, been cleaned, kicked up (with abit of help from a spot of EasyStart) and sold. RichG and BD197 have both been bitten by big £££ dealer bikes.
Les's bike (which you're right, is R spec, I thought is was SE) is worth a good £500+ more than any R model that's just arrived from Japan.
The problem is the more bikes that arrive from Japan the less likely you are to find a tidy SE/SP for £3k (unless the market collapses again), you flat out cannot get a bike bought, transported, tax paid and sold for £3k unless the bike costs a few hundred quid. The only reason prices were ever low is 'cause bikes that were £4k in 1995 (when a house was £25k, a pint of beer was £1.50 and £4 a hour was an OK wage) had been devalued by time and no one wanting them.
Once demand started ourstripping supply prices have to rise to at least a price that means a bike can be bought in Japan, shipped here, registered and sold for an amount of money that makes it worth someones while.
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