Bikes you wish you'd bought when they were affordable.

[alvington89]

Yamaha RD500 - I remember when these were around £ 3,500.00 for a nice one. Very nearly bought one back then (just after I bought an RG500 for similar money.

Honda NSR250 MC21 250 SP (Especially in the Rothmans colours). Nearly bought one at £ 5k but these are heading for double that now.

Bimota V-Due - Love these especially with the Jolly Moto pipes but just too expensive now.

Honda RC30 - I remember when you could get a nice one for around £ 8k (around the time when Rg500's were £ 3,5 k).
That ship has sailed now unfortunately.

[underwhelmist]

RC30 and/or OW01 for me also.

[r1flyguy1]

RG250
R7

[Jazoli]

Thread should be titled bikes you wish you hadn't sold....

I can think of 3 or 4 that I sold that have at least doubled in value

[Cylon2007]

MK1 Moto Guzzi Le Mans 850, remember the launch and seeing them in Sports Motorcycles in Manchester (no longer there). Would still love one today the other Kawasaki GPZ900R.

[black-k1]

BMW R90S. I could just about have afforded one in the early '80s but wanted a 1000cc instead. The 1000's have done well price wise, but the R90S has gone ballistic.

The smoke orange was the most common but I preferred the smoke grey - like this one!

[Biker's Nemesis]

I had the chance of an R7 for 8k back in 2000.

[crofty1984]

Crate loads of old british bikes.

[bogie]

Honda VTR1000 SP1 would have been nice when they were a few grand

[Pat H]

Triumph X75. But I did have a T160.
Norton Commando 850. But I did have a few 750 Bonnies.
BSA A65 Firebird. But I did have an A7.
Guzzi LeMans 1,2 or 3. But I did have a V11 LeMans.

So I don't feel like I missed out too much with them.

But the one that really got away was a Laverda Jota RGA Sprint.

[underwhelmist]

I mostly missed out on the 2-stroke thing too (except my learner H100S and a Can-Am Bombarder 250 2T single which was fun but very unreliable), so I'll say an RGV250 too.

[Stevemtb]

Absolute minter of an RC30 offered to me in 93 for £5500, bought a Blade instead after test riding both! Think it was the single seat and g/friend playing with my head.

[Bobajobbob]

https://jeremycottingham.co.uk/Classic-Stock/Egli-...

[JohnnyJones]

Interestingly the british stuff has dropped a bit but the early japanese stuff has rocketed.

I bought a 1977 z1000 12 years ago for £2k. I wish I'd scoured the country and bought them all.

[Stuart Fordyce]

bogie said:

Honda VTR1000 SP1 would have been nice when they were a few grand

I came on to type this.

[Tango13]

A mate of my dads used to race back in the late sixties and most of the seventies so when the Yamaha TD/TR two strokes started to make the four strokes obsolete he bought up every Manx Norton he could get his hands on...

Personally I wish I'd picked up a GSXR1100 when they could be had for pennies

[the cueball]

Stuart Fordyce said:

bogie said:

Honda VTR1000 SP1 would have been nice when they were a few grand

I came on to type this.

That’s what I picked mine up for...a couple of years back now.

[Stuart Fordyce]

the cueball said:

Stuart Fordyce said:

bogie said:

Honda VTR1000 SP1 would have been nice when they were a few grand

I came on to type this.

That’s what I picked mine up for...a couple of years back now.

I'm not going to ask about an Aprilia RS250

[gareth_r]

BSA Gold Star (in about 1970)




Honda CB1100R (in about 1995?)



and so many others...

[Merch131]

Almost bought a mint Ducati 750SS, the original one in the early 90's. I already had a 900SS and MHR, while the 750SS was more than twice the price at 12,000 quid. Went for a test ride, and decided it wasn't as good as my 900SS, and besides I didn't like the the colour scheme.. silver with a weird green frame.. so went off and bought a new Harley instead,,,

750SS now go for an awful lot more than £12,000..