Yes please but that top yoke plaque finish looks a bit strange compared to mine and others that i've seen over the years.
I've just been checking my chassis number out and it's very close at within 30. It's a shame you can't deal direct with the seller.
I have noticed with interest that the prices of the 9*6 series bikes are on the up, even the base Biposta models, glad i bought mine last June, to buy the same bike now i would probably be looking at spending an extra grand. Looking on the Bay there aren't many on there with a price tag below £9K, seems the same bikes could be had for quite a bit less a couple of years ago.
Tbf it was delivery mileage. So the bike was effectively fucking useless if you bought it…. Until you sold it Imagine the torment for 20 odd years having that in your garage and not riding it?
Imagine paying 55k for a bike identical to mine but with 24k less miles...albeit with some modest engine internal differences that no-one except a ducati nerd will know about? My bike is better. Its been ridden and ejoyed and loved. Those are the best Ducati's. At least they do not suffer from the ignonimity of being some kind of ornament and never enjoyed for what it really is. A fabulous bike to ride. For 20% of the time. A bleeding pig for the other 80%.
That’s the highest price I have seen for such a bike - but still nowhere near what the purchase price invested properly in 1997 would have made in that time. I guess the economic crisis isn’t affecting a certain sector of society - buyer probably has a lot of shares in Shell/BP! I must admit to a certain sadness at these bikes that are destined to just live out their existence unused and slowly decaying. The entire ‘Brand New in Box’ collectors ethos just doesn’t make sense to me. I love history and I’m a total hoarder - my parents loft is full of old toys and other childhood possessions which would be worth more if they had never been used. But what would be the point in that? Plastics become brittle, rubber disintegrates, metals tarnish and oxidises. The objects that survive from antiquity are made far more interesting if they have the patina of use - the marks of people long since gone. Once a collector passes on the collection doesn’t get entombed with them to be enjoyed in the afterlife - more often than not it gets auctioned off by the descendants to sit in another collection - sadly never to be used. The right hand side of this unused bike has obviously been exposed to more light than the left - the headlight is a little fogged, the plastics not as dark. So if the intention was to preserve it as intact as possible then the owner has failed. One would have to keep it in the dark in a climate controlled bubble - never to be even looked at - so then you couldn’t even have it as a nice display piece of iconic design. Each to their own I guess but I just don’t get it.
I thought that too but a quick search seems to show it has correct the plaque design for that year - but somehow corroded.
I've owned mine for over 23yrs. I paid £5.5k for it. Its been all over europe. Has lots of mods (tasteful) and I still have all oem parts. I'll never sell her as she is the greatest bike available to all humanity.
And that’s precisely what it was made for - the happiness that it has given you in that time infinitely outweighs the extra value of an ornament sat decaying in the corner!
Mines a garage queen most Imagine telling your grand kids you once bought a brand new bike and covered it up in a shed for 25 years. Stirring stuff!!
Collectors ruin everything for enthusiasts. What chance have I of ever riding and experiencing an old 750ss? Fuck all. Unless a nice owner who rides them offers you the oppurtunity. But then, mindful that its worth over 100k that would temper the enjoyment. All you guys out there on your expensive classics who ride them and use them, fair play to you guys. Respect.
“Do we have to go and see Grandad?” “It’s not so much that he stinks of piss - he’s just a boring t#*t”
I agree with this. High end series/models value rises first, pulling the more standard versions upwards a couple years laters. We see that a lot with « young timer » vehicles. Peugeot 205 GTI prices started to go sky high 10 years ago, and now, you have to pay ridiculous money for a low miles unmolested 205 Junior… I Bought my 916 Biposto with 28.000 miles in 2019 for 8000€. Some owners who had purchased theirs in the early 2010´s objected this was crazy money for that bike. Sold it overnight in 2022 with 36.000 miles for 11.000€ in order to get my 916 SP3 with 2.800 miles for 22.000€ (asking price was 25k).
55k… I am curious who the people were behind that final price. I bet it was Foggy and Whitham daring each other to hit the bid button.
