Mike..
The lowmilers will....indeed for a while "Come out of the woodwork". There are more of them out there than you think , and now this fellow has gotten enough for his to buy a pretty nice car...or pay his grand daughters braces...or a few years at the university.........and now all the the fellows that have been sitting on their lowmilers will see this and get the feeling that "Now is the time" and they will want to get the same money for theirs, before they kick the bucket and never get anything out of it for themselves....to put it bluntly. The fellows that have these, are all getting on and not spring chickens. We may see a rush of these things coming into the big auction houses soon...not too much more eBay stuff though, I'd say. These guys will have done their homework, know what they have, and know what they can get for it if they are patient and persistent. None of these fellows will trust it to eBay and put it in for a dollar starting price.... :wink:
This occurance, by no means will ensure that the value of your Commando will shoot up to the sky, though......they have not reached the point where they can be seen as an investment...in the true sense of the word. They are still seen as a motorcycle, and bought mostly by folks that want to get a rush out of owning and driving one....having something a bit different than the average fellow. The used bikes won't too often be bought purely as an investment, as people do with any number of other items....coins...stamps.....and other things one collects, locks up in a safe and don't "use" in the daily form of the word. These "lowmilers" are in the catagory of "Collectables", along with the stamps and coins, and will be seen as an investment by the people who buy them....who indeed may have absolutely no interest in motorcycles at all...but simply see the item as something that will apprieciate in value.....a whole different thing from what your pride a joy will ever be seen as in the near future. That will, for a long time, stay a motorcycle and be of interest to those who would like to get a rush out of driving it, and not, for a very long time, ever pass into the twilite zone of the collectible, where value is related to rarity, and not to what you can use it for. Think on a Picasso, and you will get what I mean.
