Topic: 70's bikes on the price increase

[merc2dogs]

 Agreed!
 I've always liked chops, but it's getting so there are so many identical one-off-custom bikes out there it's ridiculous.

 One of the reasons I rode the triumph so long was because it was unique, at a time when you -might- see another chop a month, it stood on it's own.

 today it's normal to see a dozen cookie cutter bikes go down the road in a couple hours, most identical except for color, and it's the old 70/80 jap bikes or the stock hogs that catch your eye.
 
 Last car show I went to (couple years ago) there were a few truly custom bikes there, but there were 5 identical bikes, except for color, not even a non-stock paintjob in the bunch.
 
  Wasn't too long ago you could pick up sohcs, or any old bike other than an HD, pretty much for hauling them away, today it's not so easy to get them.

Ken.

[lrutt]

I know I'm buying bikes up now to fix later before they get too expensive. In the last month I've purchased a pristine 77 Guzzi Lemans for 2k and an original pristine Norton 850 for 3k. The only thing I'm still looking for is an R90S but those have pretty much gone beyond my price range. I just need a German bike and a nice old Spanish trail bike, then I'm set.

[Jeff.Saunders]

The MV engines are legendary in stoutness and innovation.  MV produced inline fours for the street before Honda - just very expensive ones that few could afford.  Their DOHC engines are unusual in the cams are gear driven - no issue whatsoever with the cams getting out of sync due to cam chain stretch.  When you look at the early Kawasaki Z1 mockups, the engine looks very like the MV engines. 

[Slapguts]

See how much money that guy has spent buying on ebay in the last month or so......50K for the MV......130K for the Mustang.....57K for the Camaro....thats almost 1/4 a million dollars in the last month..........dam wish I was loaded!!!!

The guy has some good taste and some nice toys!!

Plus another $99,900.00 for a 65 convertable Vette and just shy of $20K for a 57 Chevy.

Wow.