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Sgt.Pinback:
Because he can?

Laverda Dave:
I agree with Royhall, the bottom will fall out of the market, it has to and economic history from the 80's proves it.
Back then I worked for a high end coach trimmer and when house prices went through the roof (pun intended) and property became unobtainable as now 'investors' turned their attention to buying classic cars and this forced the prices for classic cars like E-types into the 100k territory. Aston's were going for half a million+. Everything became a 'classic' and everything went up in value overnight and just kept increasing. Eventually all the good cars dried up and the 'investors' starting buying old wrecks for silly money and having them restored knowing they would get more then their money back come sale time. 
I worked on 80k Jag XK120's, E-types and (this is true) one of Adolf Hitlers Mercedes SL500 Supercharged staff cars imported from South America as a total wreck, it sold for over a million when it was finished. 
What happened next, interest rates went up and up and up peaking at 15% thanks to black Monday. The bottom fell out of the housing market, nobody was buying and nobody could sell. Bank repossessions were the new in thing and people gave up the keys to properties they could no longer afford to pay for. All the 'investors' who had borrowed money to buy and restore the 'classic' wrecks to get rich couldn't pay their bank loans and the cars left at the workshops for restoration became worthless overnight.  The banks repossessed the cars and the companies that were in the middle of restoring them including the one I worked for were left with unpaid bills and went to the wall as a result. 
History tends to repeat like a breakfast kipper.  How much longer will interest rates stay at 0.25% with 2 bed terraced houses in outer London selling for 500k? Can the market continue to support 50k barn find 'bitsa' Vincents and 350k Broughs or is the classic bubble about to burst once more, its becoming unsustainable.

MarkCR750:
The bottom will fall out of the UK motorcycle market period in 10 to 15 years time, look around you next time your with a group of bikers, how many haven't got grey hair?, there just aren't enough younger people getting into biking and with the exception of a few iconic classics that have become investors pieces (Brough and the like) everything else will plummet in value, the U.K. Will become a source of cheap bikes for other countries where legislation hasn't stopped younger riders taking up the hobby, imagine yourself as a 17 year old today, would you want to take multiple tests costing £££ or just pass your car test?, anyone relying on selling their collection in 15 years time to boost their pension will be disappointed IMO.

royhall:

--- Quote from: MarkCR750 on August 05, 2017, 02:06:16 PM ---The bottom will fall out of the UK motorcycle market period in 10 to 15 years time, look around you next time your with a group of bikers, how many haven't got grey hair?, there just aren't enough younger people getting into biking and with the exception of a few iconic classics that have become investors pieces (Brough and the like) everything else will plummet in value, the U.K. Will become a source of cheap bikes for other countries where legislation hasn't stopped younger riders taking up the hobby, imagine yourself as a 17 year old today, would you want to take multiple tests costing £££ or just pass your car test?, anyone relying on selling there collection in 15 years time to boost their pension will be disappointed IMO.

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I already started that bunfight a while ago. http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php/topic,11791.0.html

philward:
I agree with Mark - in addition to the point you make Mark, human decision on the road will be legislated off the road by the insurance companies in an age of driverless electric vehicles. The vast majority of classics are at the moment owned and ridden - albeit not very often, and so when they can't be ridden, there will be a glut of bikes coming on the market leading to a fall in values.
What timescale this will happen in is the unknown but its defo on the way. (Except the museum piece classics that are rarely if ever ridden now and so will end up in rich peoples collections for looking at only - like they are now).

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