What's Happened To All The Cheap Trail / Moto X Bikes ?

[V8RX7]

When I was young (20 years ago) I used to regularly buy trail / enduro / Moto X bikes - XL, XT, DT, KM, RM etc to ride over my Dad's farm for around £100-250

A few years ago I looked at the market and there seemed to be loads of CRM, DRZ being imported, last night I was bored so thought I'd buy something and have a play over Xmas - Ebay, Gumtree etc showed that there is nothing under £1000 except a few micky mouse makes.

What happened to all the Jap stuff ?

[V8RX7]

dingocooke said:

coupeboy said:

A lot of the old trail bikes are two stroke, anything two stroke is going up in value, due to them not being made anymore. Also twenty years ago, 100-250 was a lot more than it is now, I'm not sure what the equivalent is now.

According to this http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1...

£100-250 in 1994, would be £177-445 now, so a £200 to £500 ratter would be the same???

Equally in real terms most things have come down in price in the last 20yrs and the old tat has got older and tattier.

I wondered whether less have been bought new (hence less available used) or whether all the old ones have been exported as seems to be the case for old vans / pickups.

Or whether what I see as tat - Chinese / Asian / pitbikes / quads is what people buy these days.