How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
I paid £150 for an X7, and £60 for a pair of GT185s, only bikes worth buying on that list are the LCs and the GSX11s
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
Pah!
I remember a 350 Yam was 25 cheaper than the 250. The 250 cost around £575. This was early 70s.
One of the apprentices in my intake bought a new Honda 750 four,it cost him £800 an incredible amount of money to us. He totally wrecked it within a month and spent the next number of years paying off the loan.
I remember a 350 Yam was 25 cheaper than the 250. The 250 cost around £575. This was early 70s.
One of the apprentices in my intake bought a new Honda 750 four,it cost him £800 an incredible amount of money to us. He totally wrecked it within a month and spent the next number of years paying off the loan.
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
I bought my xj650 in 1980 (one of the first in Scotland) for about that price.
I did have a bit of a wobble going to pay for it as there was a Reliant Scimitar on the forecourt of a garage just along the road for about the same price. But sense prevailed and I bought the bike.
I did have a bit of a wobble going to pay for it as there was a Reliant Scimitar on the forecourt of a garage just along the road for about the same price. But sense prevailed and I bought the bike.
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
I'm saying 1981, as it's got 250 and 350 LCs and DT175MX. I think 250LC came out in June 80 and 350s sometime later. Last year for DT175MX was '81. I had a June 80 250LC and have a Y reg DT in the garage which is 82 but it was one of the last ones available.
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
6 different 400s and 4 different 1000/1100s from SuzukiThe Spin Doctor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:37 pm It's not just prices... look at the CHOICES available...
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
I’ve had a look at a couple of bikes to try and narrow the year down a bit (cos I’m a geek like that) but can’t pin a year down.
The TR1 was introduced in ‘81 I think so it’s at least that.
The TR1 was introduced in ‘81 I think so it’s at least that.
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
Looking at the inflation calculator price
RD350 for £4308
GS1000 - £6660
GSX1100 - £7444
Katana 1100 £10384
RD350 for £4308
GS1000 - £6660
GSX1100 - £7444
Katana 1100 £10384
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
Big difference between the Kat and the GSX considering the Kat is just a GSX11 in a fancy dress
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
Hi
I bought my 350LC in late 81 and paid £975 for it from Ham Yam in Chester me Street which was one of the cheapest around at the time so I’m going with 82
Cheers
Steve
I bought my 350LC in late 81 and paid £975 for it from Ham Yam in Chester me Street which was one of the cheapest around at the time so I’m going with 82
Cheers
Steve
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
I think we shared that one. 4 of us riding LCs.
Normally milk crates.
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
Aha. I remember it broke when someone sat on the bike.
It was originally built with a cross piece, but that stopped the tyre moving, so was chopped out,making it weak.
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Re: How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?
I see the GS125ES was 612 quid, i think i paid about that for a 3 year old one in 1984 when i got my first pay packet from my first proper job and got my first road legal bike as a 17 year old