A "bike Specialist" In Sheffield...

WTF £19k ? are they taking the piss... It's lovely but £19k is bonkers

 

If the bike is being sold on behalf of the owner, they (the owner) may have specified the minimum amount they are prepared to accept for the bike.

 

Take 100k off and it might be in the ballpark

 

Quite possibly (outside my area of expertise). In my experience, the Bike Specialists will advise on an appropriate market price but I suppose if an owner insists on a floor selling price then they will go with it.

 

Image how much more it would be worth if it was a cat N with visible damage

 

"Here we have for sale, new in at the Bike Specialists, another super rare excellent investment opportunity”.

 

Nothing to do with Bike Specialists, but I saw an advert for a 748Sp claiming it as “the rarest of the 748” ! Even I know it wasn’t.

 

He can’t be skint already?

https://www.thebikespecialists.com/...heffield-0bede494-0224-4699-8ce4-2be83dcd33ef

 

I was wondering this, why has he kept it 17 years and NOW selling it. I bet it’s a fortune though!

 

I wonder if it’s still got all the goodies attached (albeit 17 year old goodies)?

 

yeah it does, I doubt anyone could use it though, it’s a 230hp motor that’s sat for 17 years, almost certainly a paperweight, and the electronics kit probably needs to be run on some very old software! Even so, you just wouldn’t, may as buy a 5 year old BSB bike if you wanted to run a superbike.

I love what he achieved on that bike, but it was a street production bike. If it was one of the Ducatis, or it was a Colin Edward’s HRC SP2 absolutely dripping in magnesium and one off parts it would be a different matter.

look up iconic auctions, they just got an immaculate NSR500 twin in, now that’s flipping special!!!!

 

£149K and a wife who wants some more space in the lounge?

 

150k for it too!! No thanks

 

I bet TBS are taking 20% as well… it’s got to be a £75k bike tops, even with its provenance, I’ve seen genuine CRC factory Ducatis go for £100k and less

 

Mavericks championship winning bike barely hit £40k which I think I’d rather have if I was collecting bike history type stuff

 

Or Max's 250cc dream bike.

 

It’s probably at the right place to get as much as he wants/needs for it because a lot of fans in the uk seem to like wsb over motogp but in the grand scheme of things they wouldn’t be asking a fraction of that anywhere else.

(and without wanting to take anything at all away from JT he raced bayliss et al on that bike when they were almost claiming their pensions, wsb was on the decline at the time unless my memory serves me incorrectly - not a vintage year by any stretch)