TL125 wanted???

[Rozabikes Tim]

I'm after a TL125 ideally, or 70 / 80's XL 125 possibly if not, maybe SL125 .... They are all fetching silly money I know.
 
It will be for my teenage kids to learn / play on with a view to proper resto later on when they are bored!! Ideally something cosmetically tired but sound otherwise - so they can drop it etc without worrying...

Any leads appreciated.

Tim

[Laverda Dave]

Oh dear, one sold today at the Spicers auction for £1050. It was rough but mostly all there. Cooleronthecoast posted the details of the auction a couple of days ago.

[Laverda Dave]

This was the bike.

[Rozabikes Tim]

I bid on that as an absentee bid. Very near to getting it but not sore, as my bid reflected what I felt it was worth. The original speedo is a rare part on that.

Just the thing I am after really,,,,

[JonnyB]

Anything sub 250cc is fetching silly money and classics fetch more, I remember riding a 250 superdream into a breakers in Nottingham because it dropped a valve and I needed enough money for a train ticket back to Lincoln.

[philward]

I had a TL125 in 1976 (done my first trial on it - was underpowered for my weight and moved on to an Ossa MAR). I bought a runner TL250 from DK about 5 years ago but had too many projects and moved it on at a profit without doing anything - wish I'd have kept it now as prices have moved up considerably.

[Rozabikes Tim]

Had a TL myself which is the pull for one now.

[JonnyB]

Perhaps it's me and I'm a bit Yorkshire but I saw the pic of that TL and I thought £800, the saying is "it's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it".

is that true?

[Rozabikes Tim]

Perhaps it's me and I'm a bit Yorkshire but I saw the pic of that TL and I thought £800, the saying is "it's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it".

is that true?

Exactly.. Trouble is lots out  there willing to pay over the odds. Good buy at £600 maybe but that was never goung to happen.

[JonnyB]

I know what you mean. it's madness.
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[Laverda Dave]

All 'Classic Bike' prices have gone through the roof. Why, because the investors have moved in. Houses are not coming onto the market as people either can't afford to move or extend what they have so that cuts off a potential investment opportunity. You pay capital gains tax on art so that's another investment opportunity gone. Savings pay on average 1.1% over two years so why bother with banks. Classic cars and bikes are going up, up & up. No gains tax to pay and a very healthy market. Anything 70’s bike wise is a sure-fire investment. Will these people ride their investment, I doubt it. Once the bank rates go up to pay for Covid the investors will have to sell to pay their loans off and prices will fall. The same happened  in the mid 80’s when I was working on classic Jags and Aston's. The company I worked for went bust because the investors couldn't pay for the retrims on their classic cars that had gone from being worth £100k+ for an E-Type to £40k within 3 months!

[andut]

I have a neighbour a few doors away who still has his TL125 that he bought 45 years ago.  He didn't take to bikes, so it has only a few hundred miles on it and is sat in his workshop still waiting for it's first service !  Great looking little bike !