Pro-Tec HL Yamaha

[firko]

20k fishing expedition.                                           http://www.vintagemx.us/cgi-bin/largephoto.cgi?C=oWU8EggstnARCTjw&w=4
                                                                      
                                                                      
FOR SALE
Ad # 3212398 March 9, 2013
 
Pro-Tec Yamaha TT-600 as raced by Ron Lechien in 1982. One of two bikes produced by Pro-Tec for the Four Stroke Nationals. 598cc Pro-Tec stroker motor, Pro-Fab frame and swingarm, Sun rims, Ohlins, 43mm Yamaha forks, etc. The real thing with plenty of provenance. $20k.
     Greg Bastek
Seymour, CT
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Registered Since 9/28/2004 | 775 Posts  

 
 

[Tahitian_Red]

It's been for sale for awhile now.  I think he has even come down on the price.

[crash n bern]

It's worth it just for the ATK sticker on the swingarm.

[JohnnyO]

It started off at $25,000..

[gdr]

What makes these so expencive ?

[crash n bern]

I was wondering why it had the ATK sticker on it and just realised that it has the Anti Tracking Kettenrad fitted for the chain.  That was one of Horst Lietner's early inventions to keep the chain tension even throughout the suspension travel. The abbreviation for it was ATK and that led to the name of his bikes.

Horst also pioneered mountain bikes and developed suspension for them amongs other things.

[mustanggrahame]

That's an odd way to work out a bikes value Walter. Wouldn't all those prices you quoted just give you a replica? This appears to be genuine with history. Not saying that it will fetch $20K but if it was mine I wouldn't sell it for replica money.
Cheers, Grahame

[SON]

yes that would be like Walter selling one of his good engines for parts value

[flower pot racing]

and not accounting for any time putting it together researching the parts etc etc 

You can spend hundreds of hours on a project and if you had to charge for your time as with a commerical venure you would never get your money back. 

Fair play to those that are doing it though and long may they continue to do so.

[gdr]

This time i must agree with Walter .
As for the hrs spent and researching parts ect ,if this was the case my cr's would be worth a fortune .

[SON]

I disagree
The original Aberg
Or any of the others that he rode are worth substantially more than any copy replica
Talking of the Originals,
Where are they ??

[ola_martin]

If you use the cost to replicate as value you pretty much deny the whole sportsmemorybilia, memorybilia or even collectables in general. A baseball proved to be used in a famous game can be worth thousands, but will only cost a couple of bucks to replicate....

If this bike is an original, raced by one of the biggest mx-stars of that era it will of course be worth more than any new replica I'd say...

[JohnnyO]

Fairenough if it is  THE bike , but is it  THE bike ?

Read the ad, it tells you whose bike it is.

[JohnnyO]

If you use the cost to replicate as value you pretty much deny the whole sportsmemorybilia, memorybilia or even collectables in general. A baseball proved to be used in a famous game can be worth thousands, but will only cost a couple of bucks to replicate....

If this bike is an original, raced by one of the biggest mx-stars of that era it will of course be worth more than any new replica I'd say...

Exactly! I couldn't agree more, trouble is most people on here know nothing of motocross history or legends from the past.. To them it's just a trail bike with a different frame that anyone could build!

[Tahitian_Red]

If the Dogger raced it that would only slightly up the value.  The Steve McQueen bike with the ownership papers was worth a lot of money as opposed to a Husky he may have raced.

Everything of value is speculative (could go up or could go down).  You may love your wife with all your heart and soul, but if she cheats on you her value will go down.  If it were determined tomorrow that gold caused cancer it's value would plummet.  It's not the sum of the parts, but the emotions attached to it (the emotion could also be greed).  He's looking for that Whale to buy it as an investment.  If he really needed to sell it the price would be going down faster.