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Serious money for a 550....

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SteveD CB500K0:

--- Quote from: Lobo on May 26, 2014, 03:37:07 PM ---Just a thought to throw out there... as we 50+s who grew up with these things 'fade away'.... will the interest (& value) in the machines of our youth (SOHCs etc) do so too?

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I don't think so - look at the popularity and value of decent 50s and 60s Brit iron.

s7paul:
Wow; I might have to reconsider re-negotiating the agreed value of mine now.  It's not quite as highly polished, but arguably more original, and it's a genuine UK model. 

It's great to see them fetching good money (not that most of us would sell, I suspect), and although this one may turn out to be a bit of an oddity (in terms of what it sold for), I don't see why the Fours shouldn't keep increasing in value.  After all, look what the Suzuki & Kawasaki triples are selling for these days, and they turned out to be technical dead-ends. 

Our bikes are the forerunners of all the inline fours that followed, and their significance should be recognised.

matthewmosse:
On the future generations note, I'm 32 so I have a slightly different take on the bikes of our youth slant, cb550's and 500 were the ratty first / second bike for me and a fair number of my biking mates and to be brutally honest a lot of the bikes we were riding were totally awful, but I think those of us with 550's enjoyed our bikes more than say the xs400 one of my mates had, even some really dog rough rat bikes based on cb550 were still nice to ride and fairly reliable. I was firmly hooked from day one and regarded my bike as a dog eared classic, even if my mates refered to it as a rat bike. I reacon there will be a fair few of my generation and the following one who'll get the sohc bug, they have that classic look and reliability. I don't care too much if the upper end of the sohc markett goes nutts, my bikes aren't near that leuge, though from what I've seen on ebay my bikes have preformed well as investments, but I'd rather ride them than worry about the value.

Trigger:
I put a 550 up yesterday and have had 25 mails on it in the past 24 hours. I think i should put the price up to cover my hourly rate of answering emails ;)

Captain Snakebite:
Details aside, it is a beautiful looking machine. Possibly a bit too beautiful. I wouldn't dare take it out - I'd have to shift the furniture around, install it in the lounge and polish it with the finest silks: CB Sculpture! ;-)

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