Racing motorcycles have quietly been delivering great profits. For nearly a decade, racing motorcycles have been delivering incredible profits for investors. We published a piece about this very subject nearly a year ago now and prices have become more fierce since then. In the early nineteen nineties Yamaha TZ750s and 700s could be picked up for under five hundred pounds and some were even given away. Today these machines can sell for in excess of fifty thousand pounds. Although the Manx Nortons have started to drop a little in value, due to demographics, they are still over twenty thousand pounds and they did make quite a lot of them over the years.
There have been some very wealthy people buying racing motorcycles as a very serious tangible asset. Motorcycles are now being taken as seriously as art, classic cars, fine wine and wrist watches as a serious investment. With the exception of Broughs and Vincents, the days of collectible British motorcycles rising in value are over. I will be writing a piece about this shortly, it’s about demographics and we have already seen this trend in classic cars. I did predict this trend in 2013 in this article and people thought I was crazy at that time, but the writing has been on the wall for some time now.
Over the last five years, some wealthy individuals have taken a punt on some very expensive racing motorcycles and have seen returns of well over one hundred percent in that short time. When compared to classic racing cars the motorcycles still offer incredible value with plenty of headroom for future profits. Recently there was a program on More Four television, called The Unrideables you can see a trailer for the program here. If that gets you excited then watch it on catch up on More Four as it’s a really great program. It’s about the two stroke 500cc Grand Prix motorcycles from 1982 until 1998. It featured these unrideable two strokes prior to them being banned at the end of the 1998 season. Such machines are what legends are made of and they are seriously undervalued. The same is true of the Carl Fogarty era World Superbike machines.
Last year a hawk eyed investor snapped up, through our own service, Ron Haslam’s championship winning Honda CB1100R and his full racing leathers, helmet, gloves and boots. Most of the investment grade racing motorcycles, from the time the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers entered the fray, are destined to make fantastic profits. The stories behind these motorcycles are absolutely incredible and investors love a great story. Since the discovery of fire, mankind has always loved a great story and these motorcycles more than deliver.
What is clear is that these machines have been seriously increasing in value over the last five years and they are going to fiercely increase in value over the coming decade. Motorcycles with racing history, such as Honda’s 300cc six cylinder racer raced by Mike Hailwood, will make some very rich people (as you need to be exceptionally rich to buy it) much, much richer over the coming decade. The same is true of the Foggy bikes and all of the GP bikes too.
Racing memorabilia is another area that is developing quite a following and is delivering great value at the moment. Watch this area of the market over the coming decade as people do not understand how rare all of these motorcycles and memorabilia is. You can read the far more in depth and much longer version of this article by joining The Inside Line on The Motorcycle Broker website here. It’s free and we won’t bombard you with unsolicited SPAM or pass your details on to any third parties at all. You get a newsletter about every two weeks, you can download a free PDF about the top ten best performing classic motorcycle investments over the past decade.
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