12-10-2014, 08:16 AM
(12-10-2014, 06:52 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: If this bike is dropped (Honda has a history of doing one year bikes, like the 1983 CB1100F here in the States) it is my ever so humble opinion that in short order (less than ten years) it will be a cult bike. Unlike some true stinkers, really good bikes that don't sell well become cult bikes in due time. Like the CB1100F, the Kawasaki W650 (the only ones that come to mind off hand). We just have to sit on them. Take care of them. Ride them.
But I bought mine to ride, not as an investment. Perhaps I should buy a second one for investment purposes. It would be a better bet than a stock market choice.
No mass produced bike is an investment. One may depreciate less than another, But a very nice condition 35 year old CB is today worth more or less exactly as it's original MSRP, maybe a tad more. I've bought and sold a few in recent years. You'd be much better off taking the 11 grand the CB cost you and putting it into an investment account of some kind. I think that the Dow Jones average has doubled in like the past five or six years!