How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?

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How To Make The Big Cheese Cry?

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Just show him these prices :D
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What years that from then? Think I paid £250 for my then 3yr old xt250 🙂
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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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Dickyboy wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:47 pm What years that from then? Think I paid £250 for my then 3yr old xt250 🙂
Got to be early 80's 82 at a guess
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Pah!
I remember a 350 Yam was 25 cheaper than the 250. The 250 cost around £575. This was early 70s.
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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.
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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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81, the GPZ1100 just out of shot is a B1
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It's not just prices... look at the CHOICES available...
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The Spin Doctor wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:37 pm It's not just prices... look at the CHOICES available...
6 different 400s and 4 different 1000/1100s from Suzuki
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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.
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Looking at the inflation calculator price

RD350 for £4308
GS1000 - £6660
GSX1100 - £7444
Katana 1100 £10384
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Supermofo wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:46 am Looking at the inflation calculator price

RD350 for £4308
GS1000 - £6660
GSX1100 - £7444
Katana 1100 £10384
Big difference between the Kat and the GSX considering the Kat is just a GSX11 in a fancy dress
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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
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I used to take great care of my bikes
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Get you with your fancy early paddock stand
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 5:25 pm Get you with your fancy early paddock stand
I think we shared that one. 4 of us riding LCs.
Normally milk crates.
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Yorick wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 9:37 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 5:25 pm Get you with your fancy early paddock stand
I think we shared that one. 4 of us riding LCs.
Normally milk crates.
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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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