OzVMX Forum
Marque Remarks => Yamaha => Topic started by: Davey Crocket on March 28, 2013, 11:20:22 pm
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Did anyone see the YZ80A on evilbay that went for $5.751.00....original unmolested and unrestored.....probably harder to find a neat one of these than a YZ360A....they are still the top of the pop's when it comes to value.....360 10 to 15K, 250 5 to 10K, 125 3 to 5K, 80 1 to 5.7K.......and none of them are as common as dogshit MC490's...(which are becoming like phase 3 Falcon GT's...there's more now than then) ;D....they would have to be the most valuble series of dirtbike in the world.
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Yeah awesome! I've been watching it with interest cos I've got one in even better cond than that one. Good to see its worth a few bucks along with my MC490 and a few others ;D
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JO - what do you have coming for sale soon - see you mentioned about moving some bikes on?
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None of my good bikes Ross just a few I don't need, I'll post them on here soon.
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:'(
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Did anyone see the YZ80A on evilbay that went for $5.751.00....original unmolested and unrestored.....probably harder to find a neat one of these than a YZ360A....they are still the top of the pop's when it comes to value.....360 10 to 15K, 250 5 to 10K, 125 3 to 5K, 80 1 to 5.7K.......and none of them are as common as dogshit MC490's...(which are becoming like phase 3 Falcon GT's...there's more now than then) ....they would have to be the most valuble series of dirtbike in the world.
I agree they're good bikes and it'd be cool to have the 80, 125, 250 and 360 matching set but are they getting those 250a-360a big dollars still? I'd have thought they're about 3-4k down on their 2005 peak. When I had my genuine MC490 and SC500 Maicos that had been sold locally new, the motocross versions of these bikes were as rare as YZ250-A's. I remember Ross King the importer telling me that he sold 4 or 5 times more enduro's than motocrossers, in fact he reckoned he only bought a handful of '81 MC490s into the country. Now they're everywhere you look, either cut down enduros or USA imports. There's nothin wrong with that, they're indeed a great bike but surely the sheer number of them here would diminish the collectability factor?
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How about a nos 360 cylinder for a cool $1500?? Not like you can buy one at your local dealer... :o
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Yamaha-Cylinder-Piston-ring-gasket-1974-1975-YZ360-yz-360-yz360a-oem-ahrma-/251252051939?hash=item3a7fca0fe3&item=251252051939&pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr (http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Yamaha-Cylinder-Piston-ring-gasket-1974-1975-YZ360-yz-360-yz360a-oem-ahrma-/251252051939?hash=item3a7fca0fe3&item=251252051939&pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr)
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i need a 360a to complete my set
i paid $500 for my yz 80a
i started riding on box frames
i never saw a yz80a
when i was a kid
did any come to qld
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/171008928269?nma=true&si=quzHuRHhr8uwI9qgOy7CQQYofgs%3D&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2557&orig_cvip=true#ht_500wt_1288
I still had it in my watch list I think it is because people want things they had as kids my mate had a friend of his over and he seen the gt80a and it was the same as he had as a kid and my mate said he just kept taking pictures and looking at the gt80 all night.
In the nick it is in I would hope it is worth some money like the xr75's etc seem to pull in that condition some things seem to just be popular regardless of production numbers. :)
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i need a 360a to complete my set
i paid $500 for my yz 80a
i started riding on box frames
i never saw a yz80a
when i was a kid
did any come to qld
Yes i saw one at the Gold Coast mini bike club track in '74
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whats a MX-A 125 worth (in a box) ???
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whats a MX-A 125 worth (in a box) ???
Would depend if it were a real one or a toy??? :D :D
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whats a MX-A 125 worth (in a box) ???
Would depend if it were a real one or a toy??? :D :D
Fork all either way ;D
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I remember as a kid in 1974, sitting on a YZ80A in the showroom of the Motorcycle shop at Yandina (Little town just Nth of Nambour) and dreaming of owning one. Forward 30 years and I got one :) .....and then sold it to fund something else :'(
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whats a MX-A 125 worth (in a box) ???
Would depend if it were a real one or a toy??? :D :D
Fork all either way ;D
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I've got a rough but almost complete GT80 for sale if somebody wants to build a counterfeit YZ80-A. It's in storage so I'll pull it out and run some photos off and put 'em up later in the week.
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Talking bike values on this forum is always good for a hoot and a hollar from those who our outraged by high prices, and those who are paying the realistic cost of having to do up an old bike. ::)
Mini bike values are always weird, all it takes is one guy on nostalgia trip for the bike he 'started on' and there you have it.
Not surprised if there are a LOT more MC490s, YZAs and many others in Aussie and NZ. Something to do with a lot being imported from the USA where there were a lot more in the first place. With the MC490 you can buy a brand new frame kit out of Wulfsport UK so plenty of scope there for building your own better than new replica MC490 from the parts bin.
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must admit I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssss close to buying a YZ80C when I was a kid but went onto 125's instead - I often am tempted by some I see for sale just for that "when I was a kid" feeling!
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must admit I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssss close to buying a YZ80C when I was a kid but went onto 125's instead - I often am tempted by some I see for sale just for that "when I was a kid" feeling!
I think most VMX purchases are strongly related to the "when I was a kid feeling"
My current DR400 fetish is related to Shane Hunt (local fast guy) having one back in the day when I could barely afford the TS125 I was riding.