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Talking up the Market....
« on: June 25, 2008, 11:00:28 am »
....or, come in sucker  ::)

  "If i knew anything concrete i would have added it in the listing. There are rumours among some of the VMX enthusiasts, who have called me to ask questions about the bike who know what they are looking at better than i do, that it COULD very well be one of Stephen Gall's old race bikes."

Did Gally ever sink his bum cheeks into the seat of a SC500? - not to my knowledge, and I doubt it when there were better Yamaha race bikes around  like the YZ360.

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"I dug through a stack of old VMX magazines and found an article in issue No.2 spring 1998 where they valued the bike at between $4000 to $5000 which was i bit of surprise to me and being 2008 that value is ten years old."

Implying its now worth $10,000 ??? ::). Yeah, that would be on a good day for an exceptional NOS or near NOS.

For me, curio value $2000-2500  8).

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1973-Yamaha-SC500A-VMX-SC-500A-YZ-elsinore_W0QQitemZ290239919267QQihZ019QQcategoryZ102690QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

May the market decide ;) -  I'll watch with interest ;D.
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2008, 11:12:44 am »
just to let you know i think s gall was 16 in 1973 and i used to race with him at nepean and i never saw him ride anything but yzs and of course the very fast xr75/100 he used in his first ever dirt track race
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2008, 11:23:07 am »
im still getting over the red frame.
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2008, 11:31:58 am »
I'm just glad us boot vmxer's out number the dh vmxer's.


well maybe   ;) :D ;D :D ;D
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2008, 12:20:39 pm »
just had a look in the mullumbar or however its spelt news papers NO ADDS
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2008, 08:55:27 pm »
I'm too lazy to check, but if memory serves me, the $5k figure in VMX was on the condition that you could find a buyer at that price and for a really good bike....

I'll be surprised if the auction ends up outside of the $3.5~5k price range.
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2008, 06:43:04 pm »
NAt - if it does ill be listing my Sc 500A  and thats original, well excepting the stupid can i stuck on the back in a piss arse attempt to queiten it, LUcky though i have a few of those yamaha/Skyway  NOS  cans ;)

ahhh and back to talking it up, whats with the line in there about " to be fair to the 120 plus watchers "
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2008, 10:08:34 pm »
i'm a bit late into this thread but i reckon i've seen this bike in the flesh.
 a few years back, i bought my RT1 yammie from a bloke in murwillimbah with a different ebay user name and he had a SC500 in the shed thats a dead ringer for this one. i offered to relieve him of it there and then but he was adamant it was not for sale. if it is the same bike, it looks freshly washed in the photo's and that would be to remove all the storage dust. my guess is it's low hour in usage. i like it.
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Re: Talking up the Market....
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2008, 10:24:34 pm »
you will like it till you
ride it ;D
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