ebay Jubilee

Nice looking Jubilee on ebay. Wrong colour. Beyond my pocket at £3695.00, and you have to pick it up yourself.

Outrageous price!  Well over 10x what it sold for new in 1964.  Interesting to see if anyone buys it.

Previously wrote:

Nice looking Jubilee on ebay. Wrong colour. Beyond my pocket at £3695.00, and you have to pick it up yourself.

hell yes its totaly the wrong colour and way over priced  and what other misterys there is on  the bike and how many bodges there on too ,I would not touchit with a barge pole ?  yours anna J dixon

Bit of a chancer I think, I will be amazed if it gets close to that price, but it does present an interesting question. 

I have noticed that prices for Norton's are on the up recently. Nice if you have some money invested in them, but not good if they represent a "Sunday in the garage with spanners" hobby. 

I suppose all the big twins/singles/Commando models have reached a point where there is little left to be restored. Most of what I see for sale on ebay, or at bike shows, are bikes that have not been correctly restored, with incorrect parts, and badly fitting tinware, and still attracting upwards of £4000. 

When you do see unmolested examples, they still fetch close to £3000, and will likely need several thousands spending on them. 

But the so called "lightweight" market seems to be opening up. People see these as affordable projects, and there were many of them sold as commuters before the Austin Mini put a stop to that. I am talking all lightweights here, not just Nortons. 

It seems that lightweight prices are on the up. Should we be surprised by this?  Probably not. Most old British bikes get a run out on sunny Sundays, and then get locked in a warm garage. A plod to the local for a shandy at 50mph is all most of us want, and a lightweight will do that as well as a bigger bike. So if the supply of larger machines dries up, the lightweights will come into their own. 

Add to that a ready supply of cheap spares for the smaller cc bikes, and you can see the attraction. 

I predict that in 10 years the status of these bikes will sore, as will their prices. 

Is that a good or bad thing? 

Paul

Bad thing.........sold 3 jubilees last year for buttons.