23-03-13, 12:17 AM
Look at the 3 examples given of bikes that were thought would never be classics and arguably are now
Suzuki x7
![[Image: 1978_GT250-X7_red_450.jpg]](http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/GT/GT250-X7/1978_GT250-X7_red_450.jpg)
Honda ss50
[img height=408 width=544]http://images.cmsnl.com/classic-honda-gallery/media/display/1/107/image/200509132143110.geleSS50.JPG[/img]
Yamaha fs1e
[img height=396 width=529]http://images.motorcycle-usa.com/PhotoGallerys/yamaha-fs1.jpg[/img]
All small low capacity bikes that people probably started on and then moved up in cc and forgot about, and because they were cheap probably parked up in the back of a shed and were forgotten about only to be discovered 20 years later when the people who started on them decide that they want to rebuild them and relive their early biking days and it would probably cost feck all to do. Can a fazer 600 fit into that category? I don't think so they're too practical, they work too well as an every day bike to be parked up. Also if you park up a fazer in your average sized shed/garage you'd be falling over it because it's a good sized 600 so I think what saved those bikes won't save the fazer. I could see a few die hard fans keeping them in mint condition but that's not what a fazer is all about, it's a go anywhere work horse. I hope they do last because I love them but I can't see it happening.
Suzuki x7
Honda ss50
[img height=408 width=544]http://images.cmsnl.com/classic-honda-gallery/media/display/1/107/image/200509132143110.geleSS50.JPG[/img]
Yamaha fs1e
[img height=396 width=529]http://images.motorcycle-usa.com/PhotoGallerys/yamaha-fs1.jpg[/img]
All small low capacity bikes that people probably started on and then moved up in cc and forgot about, and because they were cheap probably parked up in the back of a shed and were forgotten about only to be discovered 20 years later when the people who started on them decide that they want to rebuild them and relive their early biking days and it would probably cost feck all to do. Can a fazer 600 fit into that category? I don't think so they're too practical, they work too well as an every day bike to be parked up. Also if you park up a fazer in your average sized shed/garage you'd be falling over it because it's a good sized 600 so I think what saved those bikes won't save the fazer. I could see a few die hard fans keeping them in mint condition but that's not what a fazer is all about, it's a go anywhere work horse. I hope they do last because I love them but I can't see it happening.