| Would you buy a British Classic ?
Some of you may be aware that I'm also a member of the AJS & Matchless O.C. and in that club we're having discussions about whether there is a future for the old British classics.
Reading how quite a few of us started with Brit. bikes (in Dementors thread), I wondered what your opinons were.
Current lines of thinking are:
1) Brit bikes are dying out since mainly their owners are over sixty and within 20 years will all be off the road. At this point all the classic bikes will be left in rusting heaps around the country in sheds.
2) There will always be a few people who are interested (and mechanically capable) enough to ride a classic bike but there will be far fewer than today.
3) Younger riders (in their 20's and 30's) who have never experienced riding the classic bikes, will buy them as a cheap alternative to their 'plastic rockets' and use them for fun every now and again. You can have a lot of fun pushing a classic bike to its handling limits and still be within the speed limit!
4) Currently most classic bike owners do their own maintenance, if sufficient numbers of bikes were still being ridden (by people who didn't want to do their own maintenance) a number of small workshops would look after the sales/servicing in the future.
Any comments?  | 
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