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Okay, so I've managed to buy a Triumph Daytona 1000 without really meaning to.
The thinking behind it was that I can insure it cheaply (Classic Policy with Footman James for less than £150), thrash it senseless for a summer, maybe use it next winter to preserve my newer bikes and if I drop it or prang it, then it doesn't really matter as it hasn't cost a lot anyway.
On picking the bike up however, it turns out to be a nearly mint, 100% original, low miles, one previous owner bike with a Vin number of only 596; i.e. one of the first handbuilt bikes to come out of the new factory so quality controlled to the max.
Collectable?
I've already shown it to the owner of my local Triumph dealership who has told me he would happily buy it from me for his own, private, collection (if the price was right of course...), but no figures were really discussed.
My dilemma is; do I use the bike as I first intended (sacrilege?), do I sell to the Triumph dealer (a collector who will value and preserve the bike properly) or do I prostitute it on ebay with a good description and photo's and a high reserve (makes me capitalist scum but gives me the highest profit).
My heart says it goes to the collector, but my head (and my wife) says profit.
Help, please!
The thinking behind it was that I can insure it cheaply (Classic Policy with Footman James for less than £150), thrash it senseless for a summer, maybe use it next winter to preserve my newer bikes and if I drop it or prang it, then it doesn't really matter as it hasn't cost a lot anyway.
On picking the bike up however, it turns out to be a nearly mint, 100% original, low miles, one previous owner bike with a Vin number of only 596; i.e. one of the first handbuilt bikes to come out of the new factory so quality controlled to the max.
Collectable?
I've already shown it to the owner of my local Triumph dealership who has told me he would happily buy it from me for his own, private, collection (if the price was right of course...), but no figures were really discussed.
My dilemma is; do I use the bike as I first intended (sacrilege?), do I sell to the Triumph dealer (a collector who will value and preserve the bike properly) or do I prostitute it on ebay with a good description and photo's and a high reserve (makes me capitalist scum but gives me the highest profit).
My heart says it goes to the collector, but my head (and my wife) says profit.
Help, please!
The bike is a 1991 model year, but wasn't actually first registered until 1995 (a letter from Triumph confirms this, as does checking it through the Triumph system in the dealership), so it has either sat in the factory or sat in a dealers for four years before going on the road.
It is a German model bike in black with what I would describe as "shellsuit" purple graphics; apparently not a graphic that was available in the UK but original none the less.
The bike still has the German KMH clocks with a mph drive converter (only 27K Km) and right-hand dip headlights, but there are often UK headlights and speedos on ebay so they are easily changeable if someone wanted it to UK spec.
It is a German model bike in black with what I would describe as "shellsuit" purple graphics; apparently not a graphic that was available in the UK but original none the less.
The bike still has the German KMH clocks with a mph drive converter (only 27K Km) and right-hand dip headlights, but there are often UK headlights and speedos on ebay so they are easily changeable if someone wanted it to UK spec.
Rubin215 said:
The bike is a 1991 model year, but wasn't actually first registered until 1995 (a letter from Triumph confirms this, as does checking it through the Triumph system in the dealership), so it has either sat in the factory or sat in a dealers for four years before going on the road.
It is a German model bike in black with what I would describe as "shellsuit" purple graphics; apparently not a graphic that was available in the UK but original none the less.
The bike still has the German KMH clocks with a mph drive converter (only 27K Km) and right-hand dip headlights, but there are often UK headlights and speedos on ebay so they are easily changeable if someone wanted it to UK spec.
i'd sell it to the dealer/collectorIt is a German model bike in black with what I would describe as "shellsuit" purple graphics; apparently not a graphic that was available in the UK but original none the less.
The bike still has the German KMH clocks with a mph drive converter (only 27K Km) and right-hand dip headlights, but there are often UK headlights and speedos on ebay so they are easily changeable if someone wanted it to UK spec.
So, throw into the mix that the dealer has a scruffy x reg TT600 in the workshop that he is going to move on in the trade rather than put on the showroom floor.
TT600 isn't the strongest of bikes engine wise I know, but great running gear.
Ideal summer toy, small enough for the wife to use when she goes back to work after maternity leave, and already scruffy enough that winter commuting isn't going to matter.
Is my Daytona swappable for the TT?
TT600 isn't the strongest of bikes engine wise I know, but great running gear.
Ideal summer toy, small enough for the wife to use when she goes back to work after maternity leave, and already scruffy enough that winter commuting isn't going to matter.
Is my Daytona swappable for the TT?
Rubin215 said:
So, throw into the mix that the dealer has a scruffy x reg TT600 in the workshop that he is going to move on in the trade rather than put on the showroom floor.
TT600 isn't the strongest of bikes engine wise I know, but great running gear.
Ideal summer toy, small enough for the wife to use when she goes back to work after maternity leave, and already scruffy enough that winter commuting isn't going to matter.
Is my Daytona swappable for the TT?
Don't believe everything you read about the TT600. I have put 20,000 trouble free miles on the clock with basic servicing. As far as a hack goes, you could do much worse.TT600 isn't the strongest of bikes engine wise I know, but great running gear.
Ideal summer toy, small enough for the wife to use when she goes back to work after maternity leave, and already scruffy enough that winter commuting isn't going to matter.
Is my Daytona swappable for the TT?
It's not the prettiest thing out there though.
Wow!
Just found a similar bike to mine on autotrader for £2295!
Okay, it's from a dealer, but it's newer so less desirable to a collector surely?
Mine is the same sort of graphics, but purple and lilac with lilac wheels (yes, really; how camp!).
I think I might try it on ebay after all...
http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/bikes/TRI...
Just found a similar bike to mine on autotrader for £2295!
Okay, it's from a dealer, but it's newer so less desirable to a collector surely?
Mine is the same sort of graphics, but purple and lilac with lilac wheels (yes, really; how camp!).
I think I might try it on ebay after all...
http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/bikes/TRI...
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