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I have just bought a bike that i feel will be a classic retro price climber. Its a gamble i know, but not only that the bike i have chosen to bubble wrap, is and I have to say, in my eyes, the best looking bike on the planet.
Been after the right one for a few years now, and they are super rare!!!
Anyway be a good idea to post up what you think will be a price climber!!!
Its been done with Cars and lots of other stuff, and im sure there is investments in some bikes, so lets post them up!!!
i dont see how a bike can become 'collectable'.
no matter who built it, or rode it.
bikes are bikes designed for riding, mtb's are designed to be thrashed about offroad............simple.
sorry if this is not what you wanted to hear.
So, is that the case with Ferrari, Porsche, Ford, stamps, train sets, Pens, thimbles!! damn shall i go on.
Well........what have you got?
Just to add i have 11 other bikes, that i Thrash and are very good high end bikes, none of which will be a classic or collectible!!
ton - Member
i dont see how a bike can become 'collectable'.
no matter who built it, or rode it...
Mmmm, a mint Golden Sunbeam, an original Dursley-Pedersen, a 60/70s Flying Scot, original Moulton in unused condition.
I'd be tempted by any of them.
Seems pretty pointless to me. Bike's a bike, just ride it.
So, let us out of suspense, tell us what this bike you think is an investment actually is.
I struggle to see a bike being a worthwhile financial investment though.
Christ i had to google them!!!!
Not quite a mountain bike though!!!
pretty much agree as above but what about
ibis silk
ibis bow full suss thingy
merlin newsboy
but all where expensive to start with
seriuosly, say a bike cost's £3k now
would you pay £10k for it in 10yrs?
Great topic - I reckon anything that exhibits breakthroughs that remain current today or was a "game changer" at the time it came out. If I had to pick a few - which i would i'd go: -
Intense M3
Fat Chance Yo Eddie
Old Joe Murray Kona
I think I'd rather spend cash on new bikes though!
personally no, but ibis seem to have a keen following and bring a lot, a collectors item for 10k John Tomac bike signed and verified????
There's no way you'd get back what you paid for a bike. You might get a bit more than a "normal" bike, but we'd be talking about getting back 40% rather than 25%.
Skinny dusters?
Original blue pig? 😛
ton - Member
seriuosly, say a bike cost's £3k now
would you pay £10k for it in 10yrs?
Ton, you need to look at some of the prices that really good Kleins are fetching these days.
For me, though, it'll be from this lot
Early Saracen
Early Overbury's
Original Pace RC100
Mountain Cycle San Andreas MkI
Original as you can get Brompton
Why are you reluctant to reveal more detail of your "investment"?
Are you concerned people may disagree?
Very tough to predict what might be collectable in 20 years...very little of today's stuff IMO, nothing stands out.
My 92 Prometheus is in the loft though.
So Bobba Fatt, WHY
I was going to state something silly!!!
there are loads out there, old and still command loads of cash, look at some BMX bikes, Redline, PK Ripper, Skyway, Firebird, DP Freestyler and shall i mention the Chopper!!
Try getting one of those for under £500 quid, and only about £150 new, a Chopper was £45!!!
FFS! Tell us what you've bought!
Old skate decks go for a lot so its not a crazy idea, I would rather spend the cash on new stuff though but then I don't like collecting things. I think bike design has maybe levelled out a bit now so maybe ten years from now our current bikes will look pretty good. At least not as homemade as some 90s suspension designs - what were they thinking!
before the recession one of these would of cost ya between $7,000 and $10,000
i've seen jordan 1s go for more...
lots of people with to much money!
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Well i have 2 really, a MK 2 Cannondale Super V Raven 4000sx Works!!
A very rare bike when new.
And, You may laugh, but i also have a Porsche FS Evolution!!
Your thought??
No amount of double exclamation marks will save those two.....!
😉
one person's classic is another person's ****ing horrible........ 😉
That is True!! and some times that is exactly what it requires.
A friend had one of those, couldn't get £1000 for it, full XTR, old school Crossmax. Awesome bike in it's time, just seriously dated. Can't see that being a money maker, but hey ho!
I rode a flying Scot (think it might have been 1950s one tho) as my only roadbike for about 5 years in the '90s, had original Campag kit on too.a 60/70s Flying Scot
it was given to me to train on by the original owner, he probably still has it. great bike, pity decent tyres were so hard to find.
Like i said, its a tough call, but i does help being your all time favorite bike. Bonus is it is still usable!!
The Porsche bike is on another level though, i have had so many offers on it!!
It was made by Storck and they are the best money can buy.
Mostly bikes only become worth money when they've been ridden to victory in spectacular fashion by a super classy rider. If you're just wrapping up some frame you've just bought it'll have to be either extremely rare or have Ferrari written on it a lot to appeal to the parvenu Chinese. oh, and obviously anything ever ridden or looked at by lalaman.
sorry to just poach this straight from another thread but it's a fair contender..
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I think with mountainbikes it'll have to be something unique to the actual bike you have and not just 'that' bikes rarity.
Usually bikes that are collectible have some kind of provenance or were perhaps built by partisan builders that had a history in the sport as oppossed to a factory built machine regardless of whose name is stickered on the frame.
Obviously there will always bikes that buck the trend, the two already mentioned are the two that sprung to my mind - Fat Chance and Kliens.
The one i have was Dales Press bike and Prototype, 00Works serial number.
I post a piccie when i get a chance.
It was made by Storck and they are the best money can buy.
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Yes!
without question!
I have a couple of old Mountain bikes,one i might break even on..a 1995 kona Hahanna,the other is a sunn 5000r from 1996,dispite the good condition i don`t feel it will never reach rrp.
The best bike i had for profit was a Raliegh Pro burner which sold for a bonkers £750! Eeek.
Nice one, i had a Pro Burner best looking BMX with the Skyways, that was untill i bought a Redline RL20.
I still have it, Harry Learly Turbo 3 piece cranks, Woody Hitson freestyle bars, Gold Araya 7x'S. Worth a bomb now!!
yunki - Member
sorry to just poach this straight from another thread but it's a fair contender..
Thanks for that 🙂
I've also got this - Titanium Pompino - think it's the only one
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This one is also unique, but I doubt it's collectable (even if it is the world's only fixed folding recumbent Penny Farthing)
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and this
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and this - only made for 1 year (Dahon Groove)
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plus a few others...
(including an original Moulton and a Flying Scot)
Bobba......mmmm,Diamond back Harry Leary turbo...or even a Silver Streak!
I've one of the original merlin mountains complete with wtb rollercam brakes and press fit bearings which in the early nineties used to make most of the top ten mountain bikes lists.
Can't say I'd ever thought of it as collectable though. I still use it pretty often, although it's become used as more of a commuter / tourer in recent years. Actually I'd probably get stoned by retro bikers for keeping the components as current and functional as possible.
supreme sticker makes that worth 10x
Trailstar?
BFe might become a classic long travel hardtail.
dirtyrider - Member
supreme sticker makes that worth 10x
who said anything about it being worth it? just some people have more money than sense 😐
made by brooklyn for supreme, maybe 10 made. most of them will never have been ridden 😥
Storck, the best money can buy? What? You're clearly delusional, so I'm going to ignore everything you say.
That Porsche bike was the biggest heap of shit ever.
And, [b]You may laugh[/b], but i also have a Porsche FS Evolution!!
You got that bit spot on.