My "simple" formula won't make me any money but I'll be happy and well-travelled. Formula: Get what you want; Ride it; Enjoy it; Sell it or part-ex it to fund the next adventure. I'd rather this than a flock of garage queens that are too valuable to ride - or may not be that valuable at all.
Find a Ducati model that is of a relatively low price, buy a couple, then praise the hell out of them. Encourage other people to buy them too. Create a kind of frenzy and hype, poss move to Sheffield. After that, you can watch the prices inflate. At which point, sell for a profit, or keep them as part of your retirement plan..
We are bike enthusiasts, we are relatively small in number, there are possibly profits to be made but they are not guaranteed and probably less likely than the stock market - but who really gets any proper enjoyment out of the stock market (smug and rich isn't enjoyment )? Gamblers will always tell you they are a 'little' up. Buy what you like and when you can afford it as Perry says, if you get lucky you may make a profit on sale, but like anything compounding really requires volume. I'd suggest a nice FTSE 100 tracker ISA for investment (if I could afford one )
.....and hope Rishi doesn’t decide to include any gain on classic cars, bikes, wine, art, etc, under a reduced CGT threshold as part of plan to recover the cost of the pandemic, as is being increasingly hinted at across all the media. Hopefully my Aldi Lambrusco investment and collection of Ogri cartoons will remain under the radar.....
I think youre safe with the Lambrusco but the Ogri cartoons, hmmm... they’ve gone up a bit these past few years, could push you over the threshold.
Paul Sample and Bob Carlos Clarke certainly provided interesting pictures in Bike Magazine back in the 70s.
If you look at the dukes doing well at the moment, most are 20-25 years old and are the peachy bikes rather than some tarted up standard one for pr. I cannot see anything in the current pani range that would get people paying silly money for them in 25 years from now
If I had the funds to buy the top 10 investement bikes, put them away and sell at the best time in the future, I doubt I would make enough to put back 25% of what I've spunked on bikes and bike related shit over my last 35 yrs of riding. On top of that, anything I ever own will be ridden. That's what bikes are for. Better off buying scratch cards as far as investment is concerned.
