I'm so jealous, should not have sold my 250, at the time I thought it was about right at £2500 as I only paid £2000 and it needed pistons changing, 1 year later they were going for £4500 if they were tidy and now around £4500-5500 if really mint
Aye, this was stored in a mates attic for years and had to be lifted down and recommissioned. Its on an 06 plate too! Great fun but I remembered them being a lot faster when I was 19!
They still do okay as long as the power valves are set up just right and they aren't too rich; I loved mine but it was also pretty full on!
Things don't get any more iconic than my Gibson Les Paul (a Custom) and my Fender Strat (a Deluxe). So long as they are both the genuine American article, they are iconic. I don't know if my 999 is iconic. I suspect not. You'd need an older Ducati maybe like a 916. My iPhone 4 is definitely not iconic. The only iconic Mac is perhaps the Plus, or SE, SE30 or one of those variants. I think I have an old Sony Walkman somewhere, but maybe I've thrown it out. I do have a cuckoo clock - that's a bit iconic. And I naturally have a Swiss Army knife, but it's not red.
A 999, definitely an icon. A 1945 Zippo lighter that I still use. A VHS cassette of 'Debbie does Dallas' ( no VHS player but I'm keeping it anyway). A stone washed Levi shirt with pearl press stud buttons from the 70's. OGR
I'd say the 999 is very definitely iconic in race trim: it's an instantly recognisable image from Ducati's period of WSBK dominance. The 916 is the more iconic road bike however, simply for how it tore up the rules of sports bike design and left so many who saw it just plain gobsmacked :smile: No other bike since has had quite the same impact.
In my microcosm afraid it does lol Half the materialistic bullshit replies on this thread arent lol Just pointless drivel about iphones and guitars and toasters
