Last night I was the guest speaker at the Harrogate Advanced riders group. Although I live in Reading, Harrogate and Pately Bridge are my family home towns (on my mothers side) and so I used the opportunity to call in and see my aunt and cousin as I have not seen her since my uncle died about 10 years ago. Anyway, we had a pleasant lunch, at which point my aunt said "have a look in the garage, you may be interested in what is in there!" I thought there may be a couple of trains as my uncle was an engineer and built the large scale loco's that you can ride on and which were worth a lot of money. Anyway, I opened up the garage and sat inside was a Suzuki X7 250 on a W plate in immaculate original condition with just over 1,000 miles on the clock, and in front was a V reg Suzuki GS1000 with around 2,000 miles on the clock also in original immaculate condition. The X7 belongs to my aunts brother who purchased the bike new but only did a 20 mile trip once a year and he is no longer able to ride as he has terminal cancer, and the GS belongs to my cousin who also brought his bike new but was involved in a serious crash on his Yamaha 750 leaving him with a brain injury meaning he is no longer able to ride. I cannot recall the last time I saw 2 bikes of these vintage just sat there as if it was time warp, it certainly brought back memories for me. So, now, I have got to speak t some friends in the trade and get some ideas of value as it s criminal (IMO) having them just sat there rotting
Unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to drag the bikes out and photograph them as I was running out of time, but I have asked my Aunt to get my cousin to take a few as I will need them to show to my contact for a valuation, so bear with me please.
