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Title: Raging Inflation
Post by: Laverda Dave on October 16, 2019, 09:48:13 AM
Just come across an old full page advert in my 400/4 rebuild file for DSS from January 23rd 1991. Look at the prices for 400/4 parts! £18 for a kick-start with knuckle, £65 for an exhaust!
Times (and prices) change!
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Johnwebley on October 16, 2019, 10:37:08 AM
Around 1991.a full set of 500 exhausts. With brackets. Link tubes  gaskets.cost me £250.
May need replacements soon

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on October 16, 2019, 12:26:07 PM
1979

500/4 exhausts £37.67 each.

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: paul G on October 16, 2019, 12:32:16 PM
I posted these two in my 750 rebuild  :o

(https://i.imgur.com/uQ4gspk.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/mLAbznC.jpg)
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Trigger on October 16, 2019, 01:54:10 PM
Everything has gone up, not just bike parts.
I bought a house when I was 18 years old, knocked them down from £12,320 to £11,800, sold it 3 years later for £25,000. Just looked it up on rightmove and it sold last year for £322,000  :o
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Green1 on October 16, 2019, 03:50:09 PM
What your all forgetting in the mid 70's you were probably on £70 a week at the time.
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Andrew-S on October 16, 2019, 04:07:26 PM
Great thread! - I couldn't resist posting these two invoice from my 1972 750 K1, one on trade-in and purchase and the other for repairs when the camshaft let go:

Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Trigger on October 16, 2019, 05:49:13 PM
What your all forgetting in the mid 70's you were probably on £70 a week at the time.

Mid 70's Mick, I would of only been 10 so, still on pocket money  ;D
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Green1 on October 16, 2019, 05:55:48 PM
Getting to much buy the looks of it.  ;D
I could just about pay for my fuel for the week at 18 never mind buy a house
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: steff750 on October 16, 2019, 06:29:40 PM
PAUL G posted

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I posted these two in my 750 rebuild  :o

@ paul g

 i have the exactly the same price list picked it up in the nec bike show when i had my first cb750 about 1980
i still i have it somewhere really crazy prices even hadleigh's was a lot cheaper than honda
 i always thought i was skint because i had a mortgage   :-\
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Bryanj on October 16, 2019, 09:29:01 PM
When i started on bikes(dinosaurs had spoked wheels) Petrol was 7shillings and sixpence a gallon and beer 1 shilling and 10pence a pint but my MONTHLY wage was £34 so i could still only afford to fill my Enfield 3 1/2 gallon tank once a month. Bike cost £15 with a bad big end , used bottom end £7, insurance £20:from memory.
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: mike the bike on October 16, 2019, 11:49:37 PM
A pint of Brains Dark was 37p in 1981
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: paul G on October 17, 2019, 07:54:54 AM
What your all forgetting in the mid 70's you were probably on £70 a week at the time.

Mid 70's Mick, I would of only been 10 so, still on pocket money  ;D
You must have had a paper round in the Himalayas then  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: paul G on October 17, 2019, 07:59:03 AM
Great thread! - I couldn't resist posting these two invoice from my 1972 750 K1, one on trade-in and purchase and the other for repairs when the camshaft let go:

Insurance £214  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on October 17, 2019, 08:11:08 AM
I thought that too.

I'm sure i paid £70-ish in the 70's
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Johnwebley on October 17, 2019, 08:20:40 AM
You youngsters.

When I started riding.petrol was 4s11p a gallon. In 73 when we bought our house (£8500).my weekly wage was about £27.

Rural areas have great scenery. But low wages

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Rozabikes Tim on October 17, 2019, 08:24:07 AM
Just about to shell out on a new van that will cost the equivalent of 1/3 what we paid for our house only 22 years just ago! That just seems mad however you look at it!
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: paul G on October 17, 2019, 08:49:12 AM
You youngsters.

When I started riding.petrol was 4s11p a gallon. In 73 when we bought our house (£8500).my weekly wage was about £27.

Rural areas have great scenery. But low wages

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Low :( When I started as an apprentice mechanic in 76 I was on £13 a week and petrol was 50p a galon.
I did get a slight discount on that but not much (owner was a right barsteward) ::)
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Nurse Julie on October 17, 2019, 09:14:14 AM
You lot have got fantastic memories. The only thing I can remember from the late 70's is being able to fill my bikes with fuel for about £1.75 which got me to work and back for a week as a Student Nurse. The rest if my life from then to last week is a complete blank 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Edit....just remembered Norwich Union Riders policy..£300 in 1980
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on October 17, 2019, 09:20:33 AM
We all had Rider Policies at Uni (76-79). It insured the rider on any bike so we shared all the time :)

This is outside our place in Brighton in 1979

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: K2-K6 on October 17, 2019, 09:41:45 AM
Nice picture Steve,  also it reminds me I had hair once  ;D
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on October 17, 2019, 09:43:11 AM
That's me in blue taking the photo of the two guys on the front path.
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: steff750 on October 17, 2019, 10:04:18 AM
 ;) steve that reminds me i have a brand new fairing for a cb750 like them in the pic  let me know if you want to buy it lol
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on October 17, 2019, 10:44:53 AM
Which one?

There's Hondastyle Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 in the picture.

The issue nowadays is the brackets. If you've not got them, it's a real faff to fit...
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: steff750 on October 17, 2019, 10:55:33 AM
lol i dont know they all look the same to me?  it is white one
there is a sticker saying f2 and takes a single headlight
 feel free to ask any questions i know nothing about fairings
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Andrew-S on October 17, 2019, 01:58:30 PM
Love all this nostalgic stuff - seeing those fairings reminded me of the one I had fitted to my 71 K1 in 77, I think it was a Rickman with ace-bars and had the turning circle of a London bus so it and they didn't last long!  ::)

Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: paul G on October 17, 2019, 02:21:22 PM
Nostalger and first bike inflation.
Bought one of these Suzuki T125 Stinger for £75 sold it for £50 in 77 now going for 4k+ ;D

(https://i.imgur.com/U2czcTL.jpg)

Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: philward on October 17, 2019, 04:54:40 PM
First  bike 1971 cb250k3 - £325 - apprentice engineer wage was £7 pick up - £3 hp loan, £2 house keep and £2 for petrol/running costs/odd beer (35p gallon and 19p pint) - it's all relevant.

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: philward on October 17, 2019, 04:57:26 PM
That's per week by the way - nobody got paid monthly!

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Nurse Julie on October 17, 2019, 05:00:43 PM
That's per week by the way - nobody got paid monthly!

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Haha, in the days of the weekly little brown envelope with all the deductions and Net take home pay written on the front by the wages clerk 🤣🤣I though I was very important when I worked somewhere where that actually put the pay slip IN the envelope with the cash 🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: philward on October 17, 2019, 05:02:14 PM
That's per week by the way - nobody got paid monthly!

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: philward on October 17, 2019, 05:06:02 PM
That's per week by the way - nobody got paid monthly!

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Sorry posted twice - I'm in Crete and keep getting message 'not sent'!

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Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: steff750 on October 17, 2019, 05:20:30 PM
Quote
First  bike 1971 cb250k3 - £325 - apprentice engineer wage was £7 pick up - £3 hp loan, £2 house keep and £2 for petrol/running costs/odd beer (35p gallon and 19p pint) - it's all relevant.

its all relevant  to me as well
 i part exed my norton 250 for a gold / white 1971 cb250k2 brand new £327
tea-boy on the motorway £21-  week take home pay
£12 - month hp loan
£2-lodge a week
£1 a day petrol fags and beer (35p gallon and 19p pint 14p 10 fags)  i banked the rest lol
Title: Re: Raging Inflation
Post by: Green1 on October 17, 2019, 07:03:41 PM
Just been talking to my dad and in 75 he bought a chain and sprockets for his suzuki T500 for £14 from Hadlers in Chelmsford. He was on £17 a week at the time.
He told his dad and he thought he had been done over so he went down there ranting and raving. It wasn't going his way so his dad threatend to get the Tax man down to go through there books  ;D needless to say my dad wasn't welcome there anymore  ;D ;D
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