well said DaveH

Can you say what it fetched, Pete?

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'98 M2 Razorback, it's a keeper.

Speak for yourself

DON'T DO IT RIK......

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Cheers Pete. Glad you're happy, and have fun with the Uly.

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'98 M2 Razorback, it's a keeper.

The SP is irrelevant, I'm just curious as I have seen Pete's M2. I wasn't in the market to buy it, nor do I intend to sell mine, I was just interested... because of 03's doom mongering... and the fact that Pete's M2 was quite modified... and the way the thread developed...
Bikes and cars are no different to houses and wives; values only become important when you have more than one...

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'98 M2 Razorback, it's a keeper.

Come off it Rik. Doom mongering? M2's have been selling for around three grand for at least the last 15 years and probably longer. As you know, paying a couple of grand for mods makes not a jot of difference to the price 99% of the time. Very few people even know what an M2 is, never mind go out to buy one.

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Yeah, doom mongering! You were very disparaging. Recently they've been going for up to 4K, depending of course on condition... And fifteen years ago you could not find any Buell for under 4K. I know, because I was trying to!
Pete's sold his very rapidly, and while it's not for me to divulge what he got, he was happy, and it certainly wasn't peanuts...
We all understand that the money he'd spent on rebuilding/ modifying it doesn't get reflected in the SP (any more than the Yamahaha elsewhere mentioned); and it's all about condition, condition, condition.

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'98 M2 Razorback, it's a keeper.

We obviously live in parallel universes. For years and years the going rate has been S1 and X1 @ £4k and M2's @ £3k. There's obviously outliers to that and as the things age the better examples will change hands at a premium (eg good S1W's go for more), never to be sold again. At which point the less desirable examples will start to sell instead of being made into POS bobbers and such like. It's always been like that and always will be. FWIW, I suppose as the bikes nudge 20 years old, I guess more people might start to see them as a quirky example to add to their collection, obviously hardening prices. I'm pleased for Pete if he got a good deal for his bike, best time of the year to sell too.

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15 years ago was 2001, when I bought my 1998 razorback M2. I paid somewhere between 5 and 6k pounds for it (in Dutch Guilders). Prices came down rapidly after that, and I sold it in 2006 for about 3.5k pounds(in euros). So basically you're both right.

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I paid just over £6k for my 97 M2 when it was new in October '97. I think you paid that in the Netherlands in 2001 since I seem to recall the prices for Buells was much higher there? The exchange rate may or may not have been against you too, I can't remember what the £ to Euro rate was back then. Certainly, you could have easily bought a nice S1W here in 2001 for a lot less and second hand M2's have never, ever approached anything like £5k. I think the low point in recentish history was 1999/2000 when for quite a long time there were Buells on the shop floor but dealers weren't allowed to sell them due to the first round of Showa rear shock failures and stacks of recalls plus a raft of tech upgrades. Buells reputation has never been lower perhaps until the EBR shutdown.

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So it wasn't bought by a monkey

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That's why the previous owner of my bike sold it, it spent most of the 3 previous years in the dealers for recalls, it was only just run in when I got it. And you may be right about Buells being more expensive in NL, I didn't know anything about the history and prices until after I'd bought it, I'd never seen one before. It was the same price as a recent 695 Monster and a Speed Triple because they were what I tested it against, and there was no contest

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I think I would likely have bought the Triumph if faced with that dilemma!

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