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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:37 am
by robin.parker
Aye, but as Vincent suggests, they've probably stopped making "us" as well! "Us" being the strange folk who understand and like these funny old contraptions enough to actually ride them, and maintain and mend them, and put up with oil-leaks and inconvenient non-functions, and awful brakes, arcane starting rituals,-----still, we love 'em---- although we are a dying breed.
Rubbish! you may say, but did you know, there most boys out there on bicycles can't mend a puncture, they get someone to take the bicycle to a shop to get fixed!
AAhh that's better, rant over, sorry.
Re:
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:24 am
by john.nash
ABMartin wrote:Sounds like a fair price to me. They don't make them anymore you know.
Bruce
1937 VH
1970 T120R
1979 900SS
1967 YM2C
1977 XT500
says the man with a similar one in his garage and an eye on it's value ...
Re: For Sale: 1935 500cc Single
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:48 pm
by adrie.degraaff
The peaple who have "van Gogh" paitings also can't restore them.
Re: Re:
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:42 pm
by ABMartin
john.nash wrote:ABMartin wrote:Sounds like a fair price to me. They don't make them anymore you know.
Bruce
1937 VH
1970 T120R
1979 900SS
1967 YM2C
1977 XT500
says the man with a similar one in his garage and an eye on it's value ...
Guilty as charged but I have other reasons. Higher prices benefit all Ariel owners. It shows there's an interest in the bikes which means that more will be restored rather than parted out or junked. It means that repro parts will become more available and that rare parts are more likely to be reproduced. Would people be more comfortable with a declining price?
Bruce
Re: For Sale: 1935 500cc Single
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:22 pm
by john.nash
ABMartin wrote:
Guilty as charged but I have other reasons. Higher prices benefit all Ariel owners. It shows there's an interest in the bikes which means that more will be restored rather than parted out or junked. It means that repro parts will become more available and that rare parts are more likely to be reproduced. Would people be more comfortable with a declining price?
Bruce
Beg to differ.
Higher prices mean more "buying to invest", which means less bikes on the road, which means less bikes being actually used, which means less parts wearing out, which means less being made.... eventually, all the ariels are stuffed in garages in vacuum bags.
If I had a £12k bike that I had bought to "appreciate in value", then you can bet it wouldn't be going anywhere that often.
Mind you, I ride my all year round and am not exactly one for cleaning ..
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:10 pm
by ABMartin
John,
My cup's half full, yours is half empty.
Bruce
Re:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:11 am
by john.nash
ABMartin wrote:John,
My cup's half full, yours is half empty.
Bruce
(of petrol ? ) .. you bet .. I've been out using it ...
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:38 am
by Vincent.vanGinneke
Gentleman, start your engines !!
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:48 am
by brenton.roy
Good thinking Vincent, thought I'd sit back and watch this one too.
Re: For Sale: 1935 500cc Single
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:54 pm
by john.nash
It's an argument where the result will not be in for another generation (25- 30 years). By then, likely both Bruce and I will be too old to care ....
Although, should this forum be still here, and I'm right then I'll be the first with a "I told you so" post ....