When is the best time too sell up?

[BlackCat]

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I’m HOPING the market collapses and I can pick up Adriots and Fat Tis for £300!

 

[d8mok]

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Don't think you will have to worry if your kit is reasonably desirable as retro bikes have followed a very similar pattern to vintage Radio Controlled buggies but 10 years behind.

1- Interest picks up in a old memory.
2- Forums spring up and interest grows.
3- Lot's of lovely original and sometimes rare items pop up. Plenty of bargains about.
4- Realising there's a market the general public cotton on and empty their garage/loft.
5- Market is busy but demand is there so prices increase. Less bargains.
6- Market get flooded, interest tails off a little.
7- Forums and sales have a lull.
8- The hobby slims right back to early levels but interest remains and most prices hold.

We're at 8, just a the R/C stuff has been for years. A mint Tamiya Egress will still cost loads, a snotty Tamiya Thundershot will still make £100. Collectors have most of the best stuff and don't sell often so there's less stock but demand remains. Honestly, the path has been identical.

Yep. At 8.... unless bikes become a mainstream investment.

Bitcoin is an investment old bikes will never reach such levels

Bitcoin is a gamble rather than a investment.

 

[BerthaPog]

So when’s the right time too sell, before the arse falls out of the value of bikes and parts?

Usually about three months before you do.

 

[jwh12]

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As others have said, it is a bit like the classic car market.

I suspect I am a fairly classic example of the genre as some one in their mid 40's who has picked all this back up in middle age and particularly since the beginning of the pandemic.

I was obsessed in late 80s, early 90s. Went from BMX at primary school to mountain bikes, I must have bought every copy of MBA etc from 88 through to 93 and now following the fairly well trodden route of buying some of the bikes that I couldn't have ever dreamed of being able to afford (and frankly probably never even saw in the flesh at the time) - so far a Klein, a cannondale M2000 and a Yeti, all bikes that I lusted over back then.

When you look how some middle aged men get into road bikes, I would have thought the market for better retrobikes will remain fairly stable. I mean even the expensive ones still look cheap compared to the stuff I see in bike shops.

Also, the older bikes are great for the sort of riding I do, light trails and road. If you do serious off road then probably you wouldn't choose a Klein, but maybe they compare well to a gravel bike.

 

[mk one]

The best time is always now, assuming you are considering them as an investment, which it sounds like you are. Tomorrow could bring anything, therefore anything at all kept for value is a risk.

If people could predict such things we would all be rich, in which case we would all not be

 

[d8mok]

Re: Re:

Don't think you will have to worry if your kit is reasonably desirable as retro bikes have followed a very similar pattern to vintage Radio Controlled buggies but 10 years behind.

1- Interest picks up in a old memory.
2- Forums spring up and interest grows.
3- Lot's of lovely original and sometimes rare items pop up. Plenty of bargains about.
4- Realising there's a market the general public cotton on and empty their garage/loft.
5- Market is busy but demand is there so prices increase. Less bargains.
6- Market get flooded, interest tails off a little.
7- Forums and sales have a lull.
8- The hobby slims right back to early levels but interest remains and most prices hold.

We're at 8, just a the R/C stuff has been for years. A mint Tamiya Egress will still cost loads, a snotty Tamiya Thundershot will still make £100. Collectors have most of the best stuff and don't sell often so there's less stock but demand remains. Honestly, the path has been identical.

Yep. At 8.... unless bikes become a mainstream investment.

Bitcoin is an investment old bikes will never reach such levels

How’s that Bitcoin investment going along?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky ... n-12185292


Makes old knackered bikes look a decent return lol