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Offline caps 999

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 07:10:13 am »
$5000 :o. Bargain, for such a rare collectable bike. That's museum quality, museum worthy 8). Where's my lotto ticket :D.

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 12:29:38 pm »
He is the guy that dad bought the twin piper off (motor and frame)

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 09:50:21 pm »
go for it Capps .I can see you on a 125.

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2010, 12:37:00 pm »
Looks like someone stole their neighbours front fence for the crate ;)

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2010, 02:01:07 pm »
I'm building a 125  ;D
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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2010, 03:30:56 pm »
The old 'bike in a crate' scenario. Sure it's a cool thing for 5k but what exactly does one do with it? As long as it remains unassembled in the crate it's a unique piece of motocross history. Once removed from the crate and assembled it's still a unique piece of kit and worthy of being on display in a museum. The third option is to ride the thing where you'd pretty quickly discover:
1- That it's not a particularly good bike.
2- That parts are bordering on impossible to find unless you live in the suburbs of Prague, and even then it'd be tough.
3- Your unique NOS unridden collectors piece is now just another used CZ now worth half of what you paid.

In reality these 'new in the box' bikes come up more often than you'd think. A friend in the USA has a still boxed AJS 410 Stormer and another mate here in Sydney once had a new, unridden CR250M that he eventually raced, wiping 60% off its market value on its very first lap. The above CZ is, in reality an expensive conversation starter that will eventually become a pain in the arse dust catcher taking up the space in the shed that should be used for bikes that you can actually move from place to place, let alone actually ride. ;D

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 04:28:37 pm »
Whatcha reckon Firko, there's a good reason it was 'left on the shelf' :P.

And now you want us to be totally rational about collecting POS no one is interested in ;D

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Re: not ebay but dam
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2010, 05:16:24 pm »
Graeme,I just don't think boxed up NOS bikes are worthwhile investments unless you own a forklift for moving the bloody thing around the shed. Bikes are meant to be ridden so to me keeping a bike in its packing case seems a futile exercise. I know that in my shed that packing case would soon become a surrogate shelf for stacking shit. Before long whatever's in that case becomes secondary to what's on top of it!

As I wrote, once it's out of the case, assembled and then ridden it's value turns to whatever a second hand version is worth. Luckily however that little CZ is reasonably cheap so you might as well race it.............but then you've the lack of parts and competitiveness demons to deal with. ::)