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Skub wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:30 am Anyone fancy a NOS RD500LC?

It's already at silly money for a bike that'll never move. I'd love to buy it and put miles on it just to stop them. 8-)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286256272877 ... R46hufWJZQ
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Yorick wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:33 am What's NOS?
New Old Stock.
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Yorick wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:33 am
Skub wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:30 am Anyone fancy a NOS RD500LC?

It's already at silly money for a bike that'll never move. I'd love to buy it and put miles on it just to stop them. 8-)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286256272877 ... R46hufWJZQ
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Skub wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:30 am Anyone fancy a NOS RD500LC?

It's already at silly money for a bike that'll never move. I'd love to buy it and put miles on it just to stop them. 8-)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286256272877 ... R46hufWJZQ
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I mean what's the point?

If I was ever to have a collection it would be bikes I could jump on and ride, however infrequently.

You might as well take a picture of it and hang that on your wall.
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Scotsrich wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:16 pm I mean what's the point?

If I was ever to have a collection it would be bikes I could jump on and ride, however infrequently.

You might as well take a picture of it and hang that on your wall.
Kind of agree but like art. Why own Monarch of the Glen, Mona Lisa or a van Gogh where a print will do.
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Felix wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:37 pm
Scotsrich wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:16 pm You might as well take a picture of it and hang that on your wall.
Kind of agree but like art. Why own Monarch of the Glen, Mona Lisa or a van Gogh where a print will do.
To a point, yes.

But if you see a Mondrian 'grid' painting, prints or images never do them justice. They don't capture the texture and subtle changes.
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And some artworks are intended to be prints, eg screenprints and lithographics, there won't be a single 'original'.
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WTF :obscene-birdiedoublered:

A bike for @Bigyin :D
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Skub wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:30 am Anyone fancy a NOS RD500LC?

It's already at silly money for a bike that'll never move. I'd love to buy it and put miles on it just to stop them. 8-)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286256272877 ... R46hufWJZQ
8 days to go and bidding has reached £35k....
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Skub wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:33 pm
Skub wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:30 am Anyone fancy a NOS RD500LC?

It's already at silly money for a bike that'll never move. I'd love to buy it and put miles on it just to stop them. 8-)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286256272877 ... R46hufWJZQ
8 days to go and bidding has reached £35k....
Good luck to whoever buys it but isn't it already way too expensive for what it is?

Reminds me of the Cosworth that sold at auction last year (?) when even the auction house even admitted it could never be sold for the same price again, the market was so narrowly bid.
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Like the murcan Mecum auctions,for some bidders the money doesn't factor,it just winning the bid.
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Yes [yawn] another K Beemers ...

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If ever a bike deserved the 'bitsa' title...

https://www.classicbikeguide.com/conund ... ique-bike/

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Read the write up, motorcycles don't get much more interesting.
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Skub wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:30 am Anyone fancy a NOS RD500LC?

It's already at silly money for a bike that'll never move. I'd love to buy it and put miles on it just to stop them. 8-)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286256272877 ... R46hufWJZQ
I'd buy it and fighter it! :thumbup:
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Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 2:43 pm WTF :obscene-birdiedoublered:

A bike for @Bigyin :D

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Scotsrich wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:56 pm Oh I’ve got a tin of that paint in my shed.
You are that apprentice who got sent to stores for a tin of tartan paint and claim my soapy tenner
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v8-powered wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:26 pm Screenshot_20250116_192614_Facebook.jpg
Wrong thread, should be on the WTF ebay thread :)
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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:32 pm
v8-powered wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:26 pm Screenshot_20250116_192614_Facebook.jpg
Wrong thread, should be on the WTF ebay thread :)
Nah, it's really really interesting
OK, i couldn't be arsed looking for the eBay WTF thread, this one was nearer the top.
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