For Sale Cougar SLX frame and Shimano 600 tricolor groupset

LondonClassic · Friday at 10:15

Its not just bikes, its old motorbikes and cars too. Nobody wants to part with cash right now and unfortunately, close clearance race bikes with no mudguard eyes are back of the line for what cash remains. Elsewhere in this forum a very smart Mercian has no bites at £195. I consider myself lucky to have sold a VGC Raleigh Quadra with all OEM kit for £120 posted to the guys door a couple on months ago. Its that bad.

CTK · 2025-11-01T08:07:50+0000

Now is the time to buy

Ecurie Peril · 2025-11-01T12:20:42+0000

Agree re old motorbikes. I grew up in a family obsessed with classic motorbikes. My dad has a dozen or more. In the Late 80's early 90's they would have fetched quite a sem. I sold a Velocette Venom in 2001 for £3600. I was quite surprised to find recently I could buy one for not much more.
As for my dad's bikes they were sold at auction a couple of years back after his death. The money they fetched was only a fraction of their worth from a couple of decades earlier

LondonClassic · 2025-11-01T13:23:03+0000

The demographic of retired, capable of riding a motorbike is a shrinking one. Used prices of classic iron were silly and are a lot more realistic now. Norton Commandos at 10 grand, 60s Bonnies at 8 and up....across the board everything was ridiculous. £2.5K for a CD175, superdreams 2k.

I would have thought bicycles had more immunity to these trends as I didn't consider used prices to be obscene during covie, just highish.... I think prices have to rise again at some point, probably if and when some kind of feelgood factor returns to peoples finances.

Ecurie Peril · 2025-11-01T20:06:39+0000

My last bike was a

LondonClassic said:
The demographic of retired, capable of riding a motorbike is a shrinking one. Used prices of classic iron were silly and are a lot more realistic now. Norton Commandos at 10 grand, 60s Bonnies at 8 and up....across the board everything was ridiculous. £2.5K for a CD175, superdreams 2k.

I would have thought bicycles had more immunity to these trends as I didn't consider used prices to be obscene during covie, just highish.... I think prices have to rise again at some point, probably if and when some kind of feelgood factor returns to peoples finances.

My last bike was a 750 Commando fastback picked up in the early 2000's for a song on the Isle of Man. I called it a day with motorcycling when petrol hit £1.47 for a short while on the Island in 2009. Agree re the demographic
Those (if any) with the disposable income are the Jap superbike riders of the 70s/80s. Little or no interest in older British iron

For Sale Cougar SLX frame and Shimano 600 tricolor groupset

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