09-06-2018, 07:13 PM
(09-04-2018, 01:53 PM)m in sc_imp Wrote: the reality is, triumph secured the monopoly on the modern retro market over 10 years ago.and the modern sport and touring bikes are flat out fantastic as well. those bonnevilles and derivitives are EVERYWHERE. they did it with price point and quality, and until recently the retros were performance turds, and triumph sold millions of them anyway. honda, yamaha, and kawasaki missed securing the retro market due to price point, plain and simple. I NEVER would have paid 11, 12, 13k for a cb1100, never. the 6k i paid is less than i was willing to pay. When they came out, if they were in the 8500 range, i would have bought one. wasn't enough bang for buck. especially since i bought my ducati sport classic for 9k at the time.
As they seem rather desirable these days, I suppose I'm in the minority. But the Ducati Sport Classic always struck me as such a strange bike from a design perspective. There were a few angles where I personally thought that it looked attractive, with "few" being the operative word here. From the rear view it looks like it was built to carry two-up, side by side that is.
Out of all the modern retro bikes the proceeded the CB1100, Kawasaki's W650 was the one that I'd most have liked to own.