I recently told my wife I was not going to get into any more vintage bikes...then today, I stumble across a guy with 4 1974 or 75 Kawasaki KT250s for sale!
I have not seen the bikes - but this is what I was told - of the 4, 1 has less than 200 miles on it, and is in "great" condition (yeah, we have all heard that before), 2 of them are OK condition, but run and are rideable. 1 is a parts donor bike. And, get this. the 4 bikes, are consequetively numbered serial numbers... Evidently this guys uncle or Dad or some such family member bought 6 of these back in the day, eventually sold off 2, and this guy ended up with the remaining 4.
My thought is, if i can get a good deal on these (dunno yet what he wants for them), sell off two or three such I re-coup most of my cost, and keep the 4th (not necessarily the real nice one...but hopefully a decent example. I am not a trials rider, but must say I am intrigued with having one around to goof around on, plus simply because I like old, unique bikes around!
So...what sort of value might these bikes have? Seems I see plenty of Yamaha TY250s around online, but never have came across any KT's before. Evidently not as popular back then.
I have not seen the bikes - but this is what I was told - of the 4, 1 has less than 200 miles on it, and is in "great" condition (yeah, we have all heard that before), 2 of them are OK condition, but run and are rideable. 1 is a parts donor bike. And, get this. the 4 bikes, are consequetively numbered serial numbers... Evidently this guys uncle or Dad or some such family member bought 6 of these back in the day, eventually sold off 2, and this guy ended up with the remaining 4.
My thought is, if i can get a good deal on these (dunno yet what he wants for them), sell off two or three such I re-coup most of my cost, and keep the 4th (not necessarily the real nice one...but hopefully a decent example. I am not a trials rider, but must say I am intrigued with having one around to goof around on, plus simply because I like old, unique bikes around!
So...what sort of value might these bikes have? Seems I see plenty of Yamaha TY250s around online, but never have came across any KT's before. Evidently not as popular back then.