Great video as always. Thanks for your work in 22 and looking forward to seeing what 23 brings. I went to the Stafford show (from Mexico) principally due to your channel - so you're certainly enhancing the interest and sector I think.
Very, very interesting. I really enjoyed that video. How I wish I had kept my mint condition Honda CB750 from 1972. But that's foresight for you! Also (and interestingly) there is a chap lives just 200 yards from me and he owns a Brough Superior SS100. He is lucky in more ways than one. He also had a Honda CB500E in mint condition and a Morgan 3 wheeler. He lost the Honda and the Morgan in a fire at his garage. The lucky part is that he was out for the day at a motorcycle show with his Brough!
I owned an mv agusta 750s back in the 70s sold it for 2000 dollars a few years later makes you kick yourself now at the prices there fetching in Australia thats about 180,000 bucks mumma mia
Whow, I sat on a Brough Superior 5 days ago. An SS100. In good condition, looked better than the one here that sold for £235000. I had had no idea about the value.
There's certainly some tasty beauties from the 70's...mainly Japanese. Had I known in my misspent youth that all those used bikes I passed up for a few hundred bucks would be worth thousands today...oh well...
The Brough Superior's new owner IMO should restore it just enough to prevent further deterioration because of its history. Two ways to set an auction record: 1. Old, matching everything, low mileage and museum kept; 2. Rare but famous (or infamous) prior owner with provenance. A HD Model K is just another 50s American cruiser; Elvis's K is something else.
Yeah, it's sickening. Both my son and son-in-law are musicians, and I worked in the music industry. Musical instruments were made to be played, not stuck in glass cabinets. Every fuel know that the best classic electric guitars are the sorts of mongrels that musicians create; your favourite pickups, re-masted, internals from your departed brother's best sounding guitar, and a sound that can't be bought, or even reproduced by the original maker. Loving music and bikes, I'm right behind you on both.
Definitely don't restore it, just get it running. Great bikes to dream about but it would be nice to see the top ten bikes at a price normal people could afford, say up to 15-20 thousand pounds or maybe even cheaper.
I really don't agree. I've never agreed with people who have a bike or car just to keep it in a glass case or whatever. For me, a bike or a car, especially something special like a racing machine, is always about using it. I went to school with Colin Chapman's son, Clive and he has taken on the mantle of ensuring that as many of Lotus' classic racing cars can be driven, and that they ARE driven. What's the point of going to all that trouble to fettle a special engine and then look at the OUTSIDE of the thing? That's simply weird. I think that Colin Chapman would have said something along the lines of "Those cars were designed to go bloody fast, what's the point in them if they're not doing that?"
Why not save time. Gather all the rich guys with more money than ability to ride. They bid a million on every bike. Then we can all salivate for motorcycles we can no longer afford. Just like the car crowd and their $5m Porsche's and $10m Ferrari's.
These pretty never ridden investments annoy me, if I ever win the lotto I will buy a large amount of these investments and ride them into the ground, I will never own my dream bike a Vincent black shadow I am 61 now and have tried my best to save up to own one but being in the forces,having a family every year these bikes moved further and further out of reach, I now own a 1964 tiger 90 and as soon as my indicators are fitted ,I struggle with my injuries received on duty , I will use it to go to work on every night stop talking about bargains ffs some of us ………… never mind you keep staring at them
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Might be nice to include best bargains of 2022 auctions for people who are searching for far more affordable machines
Great video as always. Thanks for your work in 22 and looking forward to seeing what 23 brings. I went to the Stafford show (from Mexico) principally due to your channel - so you're certainly enhancing the interest and sector I think.
Hey, that's amazing, thanks for letting us know this, what a trip you must have had! Hope you enjoyed yourself :) Thanks for the nice comments, Alex
Very, very interesting. I really enjoyed that video. How I wish I had kept my mint condition Honda CB750 from 1972. But that's foresight for you! Also (and interestingly) there is a chap lives just 200 yards from me and he owns a Brough Superior SS100. He is lucky in more ways than one. He also had a Honda CB500E in mint condition and a Morgan 3 wheeler. He lost the Honda and the Morgan in a fire at his garage. The lucky part is that he was out for the day at a motorcycle show with his Brough!
Here's to lots of miles and lots of smiles to all in 2023.
I owned an mv agusta 750s back in the 70s sold it for 2000 dollars a few years later makes you kick yourself now at the prices there fetching in Australia thats about 180,000 bucks mumma mia
Remember seeing those 750s mv agusta in Gus Kuhns in london in 1973 for £2.700 !
They cost a fortune back then!
New Honda Super Cub is £59 a month, and a future classic. Happy new year.
and probably still running.
I wonder if someone somewhere has a very greasy but expensive gear box sat in a draw not knowing what they have and how valuable it is?
Great review , cheers.
Thanks for a great roundup, Coventry Eagle for me please…
Yeah that would be my choice to!
Great Top. Thanks GentlemanService
Whow, I sat on a Brough Superior 5 days ago. An SS100. In good condition, looked better than the one here that sold for £235000. I had had no idea about the value.
Aren't people leery of museum bikes because there is a chance that the insides can be absolute rubbish because of sitting?
Beautiful machines
There's certainly some tasty beauties from the 70's...mainly Japanese. Had I known in my misspent youth that all those used bikes I passed up for a few hundred bucks would be worth thousands today...oh well...
Me too !! i had many many Suzukis i used to build them from scrappers and sell them,, 100's of them !
Ha! Me too!
The Brough Superior's new owner IMO should restore it just enough to prevent further deterioration because of its history.
Two ways to set an auction record:
1. Old, matching everything, low mileage and museum kept;
2. Rare but famous (or infamous) prior owner with provenance. A HD Model K is just another 50s American cruiser; Elvis's K is something else.
Captain Pedantic here, it's 'Silverstone Auctions' not 'Silverstones'. Sorry.
Noticed the two Brough Superior bikes were registered in Nottingham.
Ah yes. The home of Brough Superior 👍
Interesting, I didn't know ss100's had reached that high. Got a 1929 ss100 in the collection thats in better shape than this one
Just hang the bikes on a wall beside the 50s Les Paul that never gets played
Yeah, it's sickening. Both my son and son-in-law are musicians, and I worked in the music industry. Musical instruments were made to be played, not stuck in glass cabinets. Every fuel know that the best classic electric guitars are the sorts of mongrels that musicians create; your favourite pickups, re-masted, internals from your departed brother's best sounding guitar, and a sound that can't be bought, or even reproduced by the original maker.
Loving music and bikes, I'm right behind you on both.
don't restore that Brough.. just fix the flat rear tyre...
I don't recall many UFO sightings this year, so how did they sneak in from another planet to pay those prices ?????
Didn't you get the memo? The Uk's now a country entirely governed for the super-wealthy. Us poor slobs can go and starve.
That’s some serious cash for things which I would guess are more museum pieces than rider machines. 😮😊
Not exactly biking for the common man
Definitely don't restore it, just get it running.
Great bikes to dream about but it would be nice to see the top ten bikes at a price normal people could afford, say up to 15-20 thousand pounds or maybe even cheaper.
Hey Tony, thanks for your feedback, few people saying a similar thing, Alex
I really don't agree. I've never agreed with people who have a bike or car just to keep it in a glass case or whatever. For me, a bike or a car, especially something special like a racing machine, is always about using it.
I went to school with Colin Chapman's son, Clive and he has taken on the mantle of ensuring that as many of Lotus' classic racing cars can be driven, and that they ARE driven. What's the point of going to all that trouble to fettle a special engine and then look at the OUTSIDE of the thing? That's simply weird.
I think that Colin Chapman would have said something along the lines of "Those cars were designed to go bloody fast, what's the point in them if they're not doing that?"
Why not save time. Gather all the rich guys with more money than ability to ride. They bid a million on every bike. Then we can all salivate for motorcycles we can no longer afford. Just like the car crowd and their $5m Porsche's and $10m Ferrari's.
These pretty never ridden investments annoy me, if I ever win the lotto I will buy a large amount of these investments and ride them into the ground, I will never own my dream bike a Vincent black shadow I am 61 now and have tried my best to save up to own one but being in the forces,having a family every year these bikes moved further and further out of reach, I now own a 1964 tiger 90 and as soon as my indicators are fitted ,I struggle with my injuries received on duty , I will use it to go to work on every night stop talking about bargains ffs some of us ………… never mind you keep staring at them
Absolutely with you on that, mate. They were designed to be ridden, not stuck on a plinth. See some of my posts above.