dunno if im right or not but the 50th anniv le yellow r6/r1 is for yammy being around 50 yrs but..............i have a 35th anniv mustang gt for the 35th year of the mustang being out so i was just thinkin shouldnt it be the same for the r6/r1?to me it doesnt seem that theyre 50th anniv but really 8th year anniv............................
OH I see what you're getting at. I didn't even think about it that way. Either way, I always understood it as Yamaha celebrating 50 yrs of being a company/building and designing motorcycles.
If you think about it, it's pretty cool to have a bike at the half century mark. Well, I do. Maybe that's why I'll have one in the garage in a few wks snick snick
The '06 R1/R6 is (commercially speaking, of course) arguably the absolute pinnacle of motorcycle technology. They are the result of 50 years of race-oriented research & development evolution.
heh,50 years yes but not 50 years of the r6/r1..............just never seen anything "anniversary" that started with a totally different product thats all
but if u wanna call road bikes and dirtbikes the same thing so be it i guess ,then u have your 50th anniv..............
All your talking about is a name, think about it even the Mustang you speak of has changed many times over the last few decades. All they did was retain the same name.
wouldn't the 2005 be the 50th. 2005-50=1955. i just thought that was funny. like the 90 mustang i owned was considered the 25th ann. but it came out in 64. strange
anyone checked out the LE's on eBay. I thought these things would bring a premium but about mid-16k is about all anyone is willing to part with. interesting.
how about a 38th anniversary DT-1. that would satisfy your criteria, right?
(BTW I had a '68 DT-1.....frame #201...painted it like a bumble bee)
The LE's on ebay are not LE's, they anniversary editions, paint scheme only. The LE has about 6000.00 in special performance add-ons and sticker price is a whopping 18,400 otd. the one's on ebay are sticker price of 12,400. So that would make 16 a pretty hefty mark up.
:hatchet well aware and yes I have seen a 50th anni up there but I am talking about LE's here. the reserve'sbuy it nows are any where from like 18 five to 21k. again....looks like about mid 16k is what the market is bearing right now and I thought 25k would be easy pickins for these. again...interesting and maybe a bargaining chip if this trend continues? :hatchet
My bad, haven't really checked the listings, I just assumed. I stand corrected. I didn't realize that any had delivered yet because our local dealer here is expecting one and has yet to receive. At this point he's not even planning on selling it, reserving it for display. He only managed to get number 498 out of the 500, all others were already spoken for.
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