Don't even get me started on the stock market, the majority of which is absolutely nothing more than ethereal ones and zeros flying through WiFi space...
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment
in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
well...….i don't have any kids (that I know of) I have done everything I have wanted to in this life except fly in a P51 Mustang and see the Great Pyramid (mustang next year if I live pyramid prolly never) so as I have stated I told my wife to sell all my toys when i keel the next generation is on its own and good frigging luck i am glad i wont be around in 50 years to see state of nation/world if it still exists or if de Lawd hasn't turned planet into a cinder sometimes i wonder what the Old Boy is waiting on
Teslas hit 60 in less than 2. In my neighborhood, seems there are more Teslas than not.
These are old bikes. They are fun to ride and are challenging to tinker with and keep running well. Thinking they are anything more than that is deluded.
Motorbike sales are at an all time low, due to (what I like to think, anyway) the obsession with safety, or the perception thereof.
Add to that, many Norton owners have for years (decades?) artificially inflated the market by hoarding. Suddenly, some of the older guard are trying to cash in on their "investments", but the potential vintage market ("the kids today") has been alienated by the high prices, and has moved on to Hondas, Suzukis, and Yamahas, just as they did (for the same reasons) in the 70s. The rebuilt Cb750s are easier to unload at higher prices than any Commando, yet the dream of selling that fake proddy for $20k still exists.
I tried to buy a Norton owners club shirt from my local club, only to be told they hadn't printed any in my size in 20 years. I wear a medium or large...
Don't know what it's like where you live, but the schools around here are funded by property taxes. The older guard have cut taxes and therefore have cut funding to schools' shop classes, art classes, music curriculum, and anything more than the bare minimum, because they don't want to pay for the education of someone else's kid. Suddenly no one's kid has any of those skills, but it sure sounds nice to bemoan the ignorance and self-centricism of "the kids today".
As the kids say, "just sayin'".
I don't buy into the voodoo sociology of the Millenials vs Boomers its a smokescreen for the failings of late capitalism.
Exactly. As a GenX'er, I have a laugh sometimes watching the shots go over my head between boomers and millenials, and just think "You're angry at the wrong people. It's not young vs old, it's us vs bankers/CEOs/billionaires/general assholes." Being neutral, perhaps us X'ers need to sit ya'll down for some mediation.
Just so happens most of those "bankers/CEO's/billionaires/general assholes" are all of a "certain age"...
My cousin is Gen X, he thinks all this garbage is hilarious. I don't blame boomers but man your generation produced some really, really awful people.
Just so happens most of those "bankers/CEO's/billionaires/general assholes" are all of a "certain age"...
My cousin is Gen X, he thinks all this garbage is hilarious. I don't blame boomers but man your generation produced some really, really awful people.
Closer to topic...I can't put a wishing price on something I've no intention of ever selling. To be truthful if I go back to work, which is a big 'if' I'll be looking about for another to give a loving home to. It needs to be an older Trumpet though because I've always had a hankering for a 650, and it could become permanent also. ..I'd not turn my nose up to another Commando either.
Back in about '95 when mine was stored some clown from up north called me in the middle of the night asking about mine. It hadn't gotten natty in storage at that time and he wanted to buy it....Made me an offer which shocked me. He'd gotten my info from an old Norton Owners booklet picked up in a flea market. Anyway to cut it short told him wasn't for sale and had a twenty minute argument on the phone until I hung up on him. I thought the man was deranged. So something has certainly changed in the market, or guys like him have gotten back on their meds because he was going to make a two day drive to pick it up...I'm glad to this day that I cut him off because I love that bike.
This is a truth BTW.