My nextdoor neighbour has one. He bought used 20+ years ago. All original and could do with some resoration but it runs well!
Most of the stuff mentioned is already well on its way! RS250's, clean ones are £5k plus TL1000R, Clean ones are maybe £1k more than they were a couple of years ago when mags started re-reviewing them and saying how they weren't actually bad with a few mods R1's - Silly money, some on eBay at the mo for £10k GSXR's- So hard to find a clean one, and while I think the value will go up, they are everywhere so you need to hang on to it for probably 10 years. Honda SP1/2, Try and find a clean one that's done less than 20k miles for less than £8500k, dealers were punting them out for less than that towards the end so the values are already heading north. All of the 400's, again, they are £4k plus, look at the RVF that was on this site for sale, beautiful but massive money, they will flatten out for sure as will the 250's I think. I would go slightly crazy and look at something off the wall like a Benelli Tornado, last of the 'fixed' ones for £4500 that are actually okay bikes and sure to go up slightly at least.
Kh's handle well????? A 2stroke engine is a strong reliable engine if looked after and serviced regularly,unfortunately they have a bad reputation due to the spotty youths that abused them in there hay day and did their" home tuning " and poor pipes jetting ect,all on a very low budget,Pistons won't last 20k and give reliability,but are easily changed,look after a stroker and it will give good service,I've three in my garage all with 50k + miles! 70,s 80,s and 90,s,,
when you're as good a rider as me you can make anything handle well, large lol, i did use to be able to scrape stand and pipes on both sides so I thought that qualified handling, but having done superbike school to level 4 and being the worst and always last rider by miles I am hapy to say I know f all about handling stuff!
Took mine out yesterday and what a noise. Bought this one for £5500 about 4 years ago with 12,000 miles showing. I thought this was quite strong money then but maybe worth more now.
I bought a Kawasaki S2 350 back in the early 80's obviously now needs a complete re build which will be my next project but when I originally re built it fitted Wisceo pistons and rings and ran beautify but again these are really strong dosh now. only imported about 78 of these into the UK ever but plenty available from the States .
Hard as prices have already started climbing on most that have been mentioned, Slightly newer bikes that have yet to start properly "maturing" in age and money are your best bet... I'd still look out for 954 Fireblades,YZF 750 in cocktail colours, 2001 R1's, Poss TLRs in blue and white, SP1-2s, Earley SRADS, but most of these have already started flying north in price.. Absolute love my 2005 Kawasaki ZX10R with only 4800 miles and completely original with one previous owner and in the right colours, look out as some go quite cheap and some are around £5k already, I certainly though wouldn't part with mine for less than £5k. With the price of original R1s hitting silly money then I would look for the best example of a 2001 Yamaha R1, I should never of sold mine a couple of years back, Great bike and looked soo good In these colours.
This is nice. Love this era bikes. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/291911741017
@AirCon did you misinterpret my use of ‘the dog’s’? As in... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dog's Bollocks
Beautiful. SP2 the last of the homologation HRC specials. Not sure if there were any other Jap homologation superbikes since then till now, except for the latest Blade SP2? Problem is trying to find clean/original ones.
Probably one of the most special bikes of that era I would love to own and a sure fire investment and not often mentioned is the 1999 Honda CBR900RR FireBlade Evolution TT100, The last one I know of that sold was through Bonhams Auctions and sold for £10,580, With the price of HRC bikes etc I can only imagine in a few more years the remaining Evo Blades will be In the £20k+ realm. Link to that bike at Auction.. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19768/lot/230/
I was offered one of these by Mike doble back in jan 1994 at £12.500(£18,700 retail i think at the time),the only problem was that i had two new fireblades in the garage at that time,and also Steve Hislop gave it the thumbs downthats life
