Hi Jason. 1 thought that comes to mind is that they're coming to the magic 10 year old mark. Around the 10 year mark usually the trend is that the maufacturers tend to stop or limit spare parts manufacturing & availability. The recent trend from Japan is to discontinue or dissasociate themselves with older models. They prefer you buy a new motorcycle than fix or maintain your older one. Another is that many realize it's coming time to spend some serious buckaroos to maintain & or upkeep or restoration is around the bend.You know things like that. The upside to it all is that when the trend is over & it usually takes a couple years or so that the rare beauties become even more sought after & really hard to find. At that time time the one's that have them benefit the most. Be it in resale or showing them off. There's also the recent decline in motorcycle sales worldwide, many people are getting out of motorcycling altogether due to age & complicated by the rising costs of motorcycles & their parts & service, licensing, insurance ,things like that. It has come to the point where it's cheaper to own & operate a 4 legged beast. I'm in the process of accumulating the critical high wear components that will become hard to find in the next few years & after I'm done I will be in the market for another GTS. You just have to look at the automobile trend(s) from the the last 30 years or so to see that the same thing is happening to the motorcycle. The biggest difference being that motorcycles have become real good only in the last 20 years & they are much less in numbers than the automobiles so there will be a void in the upcoming years. A void that will be very interesting indeed. Ok! So I had more than 1 thought . Be good. Good luck. Peter Piazza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Kaplitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:57 PM Subject: why so many for sale
> As you might know I would like to sell my 93 gts. > > I have been watching ebay & cycletrader.com and am just amazed by how many > GTS's are for sale. > > There where 6 on cycletrader.com a few weeks ago and there are 3 new > listings today. > > So my questions are: > Why are there so many for sale if this bike is so rare? > > Do you think they are actually getting sold or just taken off line when > their ad is over? > > Thanks, > Jason > >
