Price trends

[jon]

OK folks, here’s a topic of conversation.

With today’s market value of an RD being sky high, it got me wondering just how prices have risen over the years.

I thought the best way of finding this out was to get you guys to let me/us know. I don’t want prices for basket cases, just all there, road going bikes bought or sold.

I’ll post summarised results up here for all to see.

I’ll start:

March 2001 RD250LC £500
May 2015 F2 YPVS £1600

Jon

[liffy16]

Ok Jon
March 2013 RD350LC £2000
May 2015 RD125LC £1200
COL

[Deleted]

August 1981 RD350LC £1,150 (bought Bill Smith Motors Chester)
May 1983 RD350LC £500 + seized RD400E (sold)
October 2015 LC2/N1 bitsa £2500 (bought)
March 2016 N1 £5000 (sold)
June 2017 RD350LC German import £3600 (bought)
Sept 2017 2 x seized basket cases in boxes with no paperwork £0 (collected)

It's all relative - 1981 I was 21 earning £5k/year
2017 and £3600 is a lot less than 20% of my self employed salary

The older you get the more likely you have more disposable income.

I'm looking to buy one of those touring LC's next with worn out barrels, sh@gged tyres, cable pull brakes and a 2 into 1 exhaust system :-) It will be a real eye catcher

[lolly]

I bought my 4LO in 2005 ; it was a very good example , paid £1800

[jon]

Melorp23, your right about it being relative.

I wonder if I can can find out what the increase (or should that really be decrease?) in the value of money over the years. Unless someone already knows? I’m sure the actual value of these bikes has risen above inflation rates, but we’ll see?

While I can put any info in detail with the month and year on a spreadsheet, I’ll just summarise the values by bike and year on here. Not quite so accurate as obviously the’ll be a big difference year on year, but virtually none to a bike bought or sold in December or the following January.

If you don’t know an exact month and date, just estimate. We should of course all know as it’s on our logbooks. Must admit I had to try and find one of mine as it wasn’t where I thought! A good exercise in finding it anyway.

Jon

Jon

[dusty350]

Paid £800 for this, February 2011;

Hybrid rebuild pics (15) by David Miller, on Flickr

This was £1000 in November 2012;

DSC01060 by David Miller, on Flickr

More recently, I paid £3100 for this in March 2015;

DSCN3742 by David Miller, on Flickr

And £4000 for this in October 2016;

20161130_152501 by David Miller, on Flickr

And the latest project was £450 !!

20180323_170155 by David Miller, on Flickr

I'm halfway through inventing a time machine. When it's finished I'm going back to the 90's to buy every Lc and Pv I can find

Dusty

[jon]

Ah, if only we knew back then?

Still on the realist side, would we really have had the money or space?

Jon

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Mar 24, 2018 11:23:27 GMT 1 dusty350 said:

I'm halfway through inventing a time machine. When it's finished I'm going back to the 90's to buy every Lc and Pv I can find

Dusty

Lets face it, fire up your LC, Jeans and Leather jacket on, get on that twisty A road and you are back in the 1980's :-) Yamaha invented the time machine for you.

[earthman]

Mar 24, 2018 11:54:27 GMT 1 mellorp23 said:

Mar 24, 2018 11:23:27 GMT 1 dusty350 said:

I'm halfway through inventing a time machine. When it's finished I'm going back to the 90's to buy every Lc and Pv I can find

Dusty

Lets face it, fire up your LC, Jeans and Leather jacket on, get on that twisty A road and you are back in the 1980's :-) Yamaha invented the time machine for you.

Aye, that sums it up for me, yes I enjoy looking at it every time I happen to open the garage door but you can't beat riding it.
Back in the day when I first owned one, £600 would get you a fine example, now it's 4 to 5k I guess. 

[donkeychomp]

1983..RD350LC tax and MOT for a year. £250

2014..RD350LC (import but fine). £2200

[veg]

1st 250 LC 4000 miles 1987 paid £350 or £400
Had a couple on and off remember paying £800 for a std 4lo in 2006 ish bought a mint 8000 lc2 that was in Stuart taylors book paid I think £900
Sold my LC hybrid in 2008 for £3200 which was a lot of dish then.

[17again]

the question is what is the cut off point once they get to high no one will be them like the rd 500 now over price.

[earthman]

Mar 24, 2018 16:45:42 GMT 1 17again said:

the question is what is the cut off point once they get to high no one will be them like the rd 500 now over price.

For me personally 5k were the limit, that's all I could really afford anyway.
To think how much of a 'better/newer' bike that amount of money could have got me,....but that's not really the point, I bought one for nostalgic reasons.

[veg]

I could buy a new 1000 sports bike for what my hybrid owes me but i know i wouldn't enjoy it, he says not actually having finished the hybrid yet

[1966baz]

Ill try and remember, here goes-
mint YPVS F2 C REG IN 1988 £1275.
RD 400 DX free off a mate with nice allspeeds and lomas pipes ( in need of total rebuild) in 1991.
matching nos 4l0 reaaly nice £800. in 1995.
Really nice YPVS F2 £1500 in 2008.
several hybrids from frame up in the last few years £2250 upwards each in parts. Labour all free! ( bit slow as not a mechanic!)

[spondon440]

If your buying anything classic with a view to making money your a t**t anyway.
I've had classics since I started driving / riding, spend fortunes on them and probably broke even, I never buy with a view to making an investment.
Andy

[spudscossiecobra]

Hi I paid £1795 for a brand new f2 back in 1987 and just paid £2000 for a frame and boxs of bits 😂

[mark69]

Prices are crazy, but i don't think its just RD's or motorbikes, it seems to be anything classic or retro. Have you seen the price of a Raleigh Chopper lately?

[bezzer]

Mar 24, 2018 11:23:27 GMT 1 dusty350 said:

Paid £800 for this, February 2011;

Hybrid rebuild pics (15) by David Miller, on Flickr

This was £1000 in November 2012;

DSC01060 by David Miller, on Flickr

More recently, I paid £3100 for this in March 2015;

DSCN3742 by David Miller, on Flickr

And £4000 for this in October 2016;

20161130_152501 by David Miller, on Flickr

And the latest project was £450 !!

20180323_170155 by David Miller, on Flickr

I'm halfway through inventing a time machine. When it's finished I'm going back to the 90's to buy every Lc and Pv I can find

Dusty

When you finalise your time machine, can you pick me up a MK1 Mexico please Dusty?!! 🤣

[rickymac]

I’ll borrow that time machine so my mk1 escort looked like this again

[rickymac]

Instead of this

[bezzer]

Mar 24, 2018 23:38:21 GMT 1 rickymac said:

I’ll borrow that time machine so my mk1 escort looked like this again

Had several Mex’s Kenny, including an Olympic blue one like yours… hope it’s salvageable Pal, feeling your pain!.

[earthman]

Mar 24, 2018 23:39:44 GMT 1 rickymac said:

Instead of this

That's terrible, any idea on how/why the fire started in the first place?

[rickymac]

Insurance wrote it off never got the chance to keep it for salvage kids wouldn’t let me bring it back home after we all had to bail out of it quick.
Prices of anything from the 80’s 90’s is getting ridiculous to replace that escort would probably cost £20,000

[rickymac]

Mechanical fuel pump burst spaying fuel everywhere flames came though the vents in the dash

[earthman]

That's a real shame.

[oldbritguy]

Oh no! Disaster mate. 2 door mark 1 rarer than the proverbial rocking horse manure these days and probably never to be replaced again. Looks like the FRS had a go at opening the bonnet the wrong way as well to get to the fire. Lucky no one was hurt though. Hopefully your insurance sorted you out and you can replace with some other classic before the current crazy pricing world knocks everything out of reach.

[zedixe13]

Here in east Canada I'm still paying around $1000. CAD for complete F1 - F2 for parts or for repair . In the last year I got a black 86 with a shorted CDI , a running blue 86 racer and last month another 86 in boxes with melted pistons .
4L0 are another story , they are now getting hard to find .

[fozzy17]

how about this, I sold this around 6 months ago for 3300 I think


www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-Yamaha-RD350LC/302680699757?hash=item46792cf36d:g:OVgAAOSwhaBatPyq

[cbm]

Not LC's but myself & 2 mates all bought new Butterfly Blue RD250's in Feb '74 which were £419 each, I was earning £27.50 a week at the time.