Honda 250 Superdream at nearly £8k
Discussion
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C974410
I realise its only done 3.5 miles and is virtually just like a brand new bike but £7995?
Anyone who knows about older Japanese bikes will know the prices have gone crazy in the last few years even for run of the mill nothing special bikes,but this ones got to take the biscuit.
Does anyone on here think the seller will achieve anything remotely near his asking price?
I realise its only done 3.5 miles and is virtually just like a brand new bike but £7995?
Anyone who knows about older Japanese bikes will know the prices have gone crazy in the last few years even for run of the mill nothing special bikes,but this ones got to take the biscuit.
Does anyone on here think the seller will achieve anything remotely near his asking price?
te. Hhmmm let me think, superdream, rd, kh or gt. Crazy price, but in the bike’s defence it was a learner bike and in any ways it was better than the RD250 or the X7’ yeah I know stupid, but...
The two strokes were small, the weight was low and they were very very two stroke, the CB250n and the Kawasaki Z250 were physically quite large and top heavy. They prepared you well for the wallowing top heavy monster you were going to move on to with out the power (actually without any power). The two strokes were a very different animal. I always thought it was a mistake when they moved learners to 125cc, the bikes were a lot smaller and the move up became bigger.
So will he get his price, probably not but a lot of people who learnt to ride on one are now in their mid to late 50s to early 60s and are the exact age group who might have the money to indulge some nostalgia, hence why late 70s early 80s bikes are going up in price.
People forget that back then moving up from a 250 to a 500 , 750 or 1000 eventually was a big thing for us. Very few people went straight in on big bikes. the bikes were less forgiving, tyres, suspension and handling worse and no electronics and they were bloody expensive relative to income!
The two strokes were small, the weight was low and they were very very two stroke, the CB250n and the Kawasaki Z250 were physically quite large and top heavy. They prepared you well for the wallowing top heavy monster you were going to move on to with out the power (actually without any power). The two strokes were a very different animal. I always thought it was a mistake when they moved learners to 125cc, the bikes were a lot smaller and the move up became bigger.
So will he get his price, probably not but a lot of people who learnt to ride on one are now in their mid to late 50s to early 60s and are the exact age group who might have the money to indulge some nostalgia, hence why late 70s early 80s bikes are going up in price.
People forget that back then moving up from a 250 to a 500 , 750 or 1000 eventually was a big thing for us. Very few people went straight in on big bikes. the bikes were less forgiving, tyres, suspension and handling worse and no electronics and they were bloody expensive relative to income!
Chipchap said:
CB250N Wet Dream was dire when new. Now it's old and direct. £799.50 would be more like it.
Well,i'll admit that the Superdream and its predecessor the CB250T Dream were my favourite 250's when I was 17 until Suzuki brought out the GSX250,not sure what you mean by dire - slower than RD,KH,GT's perhaps?,but they did seem to have a certain sophistication and big bike aura about them that the 2 stroke 250's and even other 4 strokes like Yamahas XS and Kawasakis Z250 lacked and Honda sold them in their tens of thousands.Really nice condition Superdreams tend to be advertised for much less than a quater of this sellers asking price these days,but considering its mileage and condition I think £2500 tops is a much more realistic value
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