Sorry I did not get there, I was @ the J. Wood auction @ the Volusia Co. fairgrounds. No VMaxes in the auction, plenty of other Yamahas. A TDM850 in good shape w/extras like a Corbin seat went for $1600, but there were dreamers & hopers like the guy who had a reserve of $1800 on his 1971 DT1 Enduro Yamaha, it came within $1000 of that & would have been a fair deal @ that as that is > it sold for new (the $ it was bid to).
I bought a fair complete 1973 360 Yamaha Enduro gas tank & a n.o.s. K & N alum. fork brace for my Enduro collection (2-360's & a 250) for $40 total.
In the pkg lot I saw 1 VMax. After that I went to Hooters across from the Speedway before the Fri. National flattrack race & saw a GA '10 Gen. 2 but no idea who it was. During the final for the first TH & FR combined results poinys race, on FR I saw a pile up on the last turn by the 3rd place rider trying to crowd the 2nd place rider, the 3rd place rider went down & got up to finish about 9th.
I did buy the Motorcyclist issue from 1986 which had a road test of the VMax & a Baylands CA shootout between the new GSXR 1100 & the 2nd year VMax. Stone-stock, no fiddling, the VMax was faster but then they messed around w/the suspension of the GSXR to get it to beat the VMax's best. They completely removed the spring preload nuts for the rear shock & used tiedowns to lower the front end.
A guy from WI had a 10K 1982 750 Yamaha Maxim transverse 4 cruiser in really nice shape, & would take $700 after advertising it in the parts area for $1100. Started right up & ran. Use this as a daily rider & save the Vmax for fun rides.
There was a lot of interest in Triumphs from Meriden, mostly Bonnevilles & Tridents, selling for in the $3-4.5K range, probably < owners had in them given their condition. A nice restored old Indian Chief sold for $21K. A ZX11C w/nitrous & a Ninja 750 tail, looked like it needed nothing, sold for $2.1K. Overall, I would say maybe < 1/2 of bikes sold going across the auction block. The buyer's market is tight.
Tomorrow I am going to try & make Boxenstopp as well as the vendors in front of the Speedway. I haven't noticed any spiked VMax riders.
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