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Spotted this in my Classic Motorcycles Mechanics mag this morning

“Looking at BMW’s R90/6 and R100/7 ,I cant help but get a weird feeling that they may go to insane money like Vincent’s have.Maybe because you can tune the hell out of low revving,push rod, large capacity motors ?
I don’t know why but I have this strange suspicion that these machines will become very expensive.”
Guys name is Paul Jayson from something called the Motorcycle Brokers.
I think he means the R90S, but he also has good things to say about the 90/6.
 
Saw an xt600 tenere go for about £3500 recently on eBay, I think it was about 1986 vintage. It seems like the bikes I enjoyed most when younger are now flying high price wise, presumably because people my vintage now have the dosh to relive their youth on the model of machine they wish they had never sold.
 
lewisjohn said:
Spotted this in my Classic Motorcycles Mechanics mag this morning

“Looking at BMW’s R90/6 and R100/7 ,I cant help but get a weird feeling that they may go to insane money like Vincent’s have.Maybe because you can tune the hell out of low revving,push rod, large capacity motors ?
I don’t know why but I have this strange suspicion that these machines will become very expensive.”
Guys name is Paul Jayson from something called the Motorcycle Brokers.
I think he means the R90S, but he also has good things to say about the 90/6.
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I think he should add 'original or sensibly modified for reliability machines', all the rest will have been butchered beyond saviour by customisers
 
Neil W said:
I think he should add 'original or sensibly modified for reliability machines', all the rest will have been butchered beyond saviour by customisers
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I recently bought a 1974 R90/6 which is completely original apart from a pale yellow paint job and a standard seat recovered in white. My intention is to register it and ride and enjoy it,if it goes up in value then that’s a bonus.
 
I love the old 90/6 bikes.
Had one many moons ago, the one used by BMW at the 1975 Motorcycle show.

Also like the R100T, the Red and silver versions. Used for marshalling/escorting in the 1980 Milk Race.
Gus Khun bought them all from BMW, i remember visiting their bike storage unit looking at buying one and walking along a row of 24 bikes all the same red/silver colour, a few months old and with around 5000 miles on them.. £1500 each.
 
When I paid $1,800- for my R75/7 twenty years ago folk were asking $18,000- for a R90S in similar condition.
Twenty years later a clean, relatively original R75/7 will sell quickly if advertised at $8000 or less, but a R90S has to be priced at less than $12,000 to sell at all.
Go figure!
FWIW cafe racers / bastardized desert racers seem to be unsaleable at anywhere near the asking price!
 
lewisjohn said:
“Looking at BMW’s R90/6 and R100/7 ,I cant help but get a weird feeling that they may go to insane money like Vincent’s have.Maybe because you can tune the hell out of low revving,push rod, large capacity motors ?
I don’t know why but I have this strange suspicion that these machines will become very expensive.”
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And I have a strange suspicion he has a garage full of them.
 
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