« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2013, 02:20:50 pm »
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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