The MAM Journals - A Day at the Auction 

Enjoyed that ,I had LC Yam, 250 & two 350s my brother had 175 Yamaha. Loved the 80s. Good fun. I'm now 61 year old still in me that young man.

What a great post, I can relate to everything you said, I have been riding for 44 years now....... Happy days

Great video thank you. Jumping humpback bridges? Riding up bus shelters? Great stories and pics 😂

A delight to watch.. Thank you Michael..👍

brilliant video. thanks for trip down memory lane

enjoyed it , thanks for sharing .

Great vid, thanks for sharing that, we don't have these kind of auctions in Toronto, Canada. Its amazing what these old motorcycles are worth these days, you had mentioned in a recent vid you made reference to your 2 stroke days and I think I replied with something like, 2 strokes that's what I'm talking about lol. so This vid really showed your 2 stroke days and seems you really like the suzie's, I was more of a Kawi triple person however my RDs were my favorite bikes I currently have a 1973 Yamaha RD350 and I recently retired 2 years ago and have sold of all my 2 strokes accept my 73 RD, love these old bikes thanks for the vid :-).

Thank you for another great video.

Enjoyed that, thank you.

Thanks Michael. Great video. Definatly some of the bikes that adorned my bedroom wall in childhood.

Lovely to see the bikes I used to ride back then just wish I still had them all in a big shed 😉very interesting and some were at very reasonable prices great watch 👍

Great video Michael, I love those old rd's

Great nostalgia and insight 👍👌👏

～ Just stumbled across your review here with coffee this morning. Oh my goodness! Yea, in HIgh School there in Sylvania Ohio, I bought a Triumph, 1954 vintage, Not a hard tail but just like one. ~ The Bonneville with the two pistons up and down in tandem, electronics scalped but it would start and run. So much fun. Thank you so much for this. Wow!

Love this, keen to see more. Plenty of memories there!

Outstanding upload! Great info, and yes, what a joy seeing the old bikes!

Great stuff mate . Keep them coming 👍👍👍👍

Looks like great fun Michael. Thanks for letting us travel down memory lane with you. You should have bought the Yamaha 175! Lol

Another fabulous video your knowledge about all sorts of bike's is amazing. I had an RD 250 in the eighties but really it's screaming nature wasn't for me and I quickly sold it. Quick observation why have all those old bike's got proper mudguards which modern ones seem to lack.

Really enjoyed your video Michael 😀. Your recollections of the past are very similar to my own. We must have all led similar lives biking in the 80's! Infact looking back it's a wonder we still here 🤔😅. You shocked me when you mentioned the 255kg weight of the GS1000. I had a black with blue stripe model when I was 23 I at that time I never considered it a heavy bike 🤔, nowadays 190kg feels heavy to me 😅

Absolutely gold Mike, thank you

I compliment you Sir, for your knowledge.

Great review! Thanks!

Really enjoyed this Michael, thanks.

Thanks for the video 👍

It was nice to see that Honda SL125 as that was my very first bike. Mine was N reg. Still riding at 66 years old, my current ride is a Suzuki GSX S1000GT. Seeing those old bikes was definitely a trip down memory lane for me. Thanks for the upload.

Great bit of fun ☺ Loved seeing that Honda 360 with 2 into 1 exhaust next to your Yamaha 400. I've got a 1977 360T in my shed. T versions were "bare bones". Drums all around, kick start, and I'm sure 2 into 1 was to lower cost as well. Ended up setting them apart. Nice work, cheers.

One of your best videos yet, well done Mate, some iconic bikes there , nice to see some 350LCs too 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Love this & it certainly makes a joke of the ridiculous high prices being asked for older 2 strokes bikes half that quality in Australia. I’m def going to look at shipping from the uk .. throw $2-3 k on for shipping & still way way cheaper & much higher quality

Nicely done! I cover the Mecum Motorcycle Auction in January in Las Vegas and they usually have between 1500 and 2000 motorcycles for sale. I treatmit like a big bike show.

Interesting again Michael. I never really yearned for the Suzuki's in those days, I remember the T500 being sold at a big discount for a long time, I think it was slow. Never liked the Ram air triples either, as a boy I drooled over Kawasaki's and had a couple,

Really enjoying your videos Michael. Had a coffin tank RD, loved it. Also had a Husqvarna, sadly it was purloined by opportunistic baddies - apparently, according to an eye witness, they threw it into the boot of a saloon car and drove off with it half hanging out the back!!

I enjoyed the video. You do a great job discussing the attributes of the bikes. The Yamaha DT400 reminded me of a YZ400 I had that showed me the price of not being respectful. My back has never been the same.

Being in my early sixties now (similar age group to you?), this was a lovely trip down memory lane thanks. Re the Suzuki GS1000, yes the first model with the channel indented sides to the petrol tank, did have black coloured side panels (I owned one... great bike), the one in the auction was a slightly later model, which had colour coded side panels.

I really enjoyed that. Memories

Thanks for the education and your anigdotes. I wonder what percentage of them are running

Hello Michael, thank you, I assume these were hammer prices?

Thankyou

Superb. As you say, a trip down memory lane. I either coveted or owned so many of these. Had 4 of the DT175 in Tanzania. Like you, I've also somehow shrunk in the wash. Do they do stairlifts for bikes?

Hi Michael. We are obviously from the same era. The difference between the m series and the a series gt750 was minor. The big difference was between the l series and the m series where the motor was tweaked for higher horsepower up the rev range. My a series was very fast. Wish I had been at the auction but Australia is a bit far away. Other bikes I have owned all new include rd 350a Yamaha, cb400f Honda, Yamaha rd400, Honda cx500a,Hondacx650e,Honda xl250,Suzuki gt750a Honda cb175. I now own a re interceptor which reminds me of my youth. Pretty sure we could talk a lot about those bikes of the 70s. Cheers ian

I love this video, the great stories and nostalgia. I remember most bikes and I was expecting to see the Suzuki GT380 two stroke (a neighbour owned one of those, great bike) or an RD500 V4, RG500 which was considered the better bike. I might be slightly younger than you ;) I started life on two wheels on a Honda ss50 and jumped on a Kawasaki Gpz750 after my national service in 84. That was possible back in those days, a bit crazy when I think about it now. I have good memories and many fantastic stories but also a few sad ones, as quite a few friends killed themselves on bikes and I am happy/lucky that I survived my wild days. Sometimes I cringe when I see young lads riding in a certain fashion but realise that I took stupid risks as a young man. No, it doesn't justify that kind of behaviour but we would be very boring creatures if we would have all that wisdom at that age. I love these old bikes, however, I prefer to ride my 2019 Suzuki Katana and 2022 Kawasaki Ninja Z1000SX any day. The oldies look great, love the original Kawasaki Z900 (my cousin best friend had one in that candy colour) but I give me the modern Z900RS instead please. Thanks for making this video and your stories made me chuckle like an old fool ;)

Great video Michael, The RD350F2 still looks the business to me, although I wanted the red and black F2 or a red and white TZR250! I’ve hoarded a few modern 80’s and 90’s classics away but do try to ride them. There seems nothing else quite like a motorcycle from the past to enable the ability for one to travel time so effectively?

Want, want, want!!

Great video, cheers. The first 3 Suzuki 2 strokes went for a song. Why only £4025 for the GT750? And the red GS 1000 was beautiful, only £5750! Bet the Silver and Blue Ducati 900SS fetched good money. I'll have to save the pennys and go there next year.😊

Worked in the motorcycle trade back in the day, remember pulling them out of their crates.

Huskies are owned by KTM now and made in Austria , before that were in Italy- and owned for a time by BMW , BMW sold Husky to KTM and the Italian workers and engineers etc were NOT happy , so they got the bikes they built off KTM ( as KTM didn’t want them ) and brought the SWM name and built the same bikes - different colours under the SWM name ( and still do ) the 650 Superdual - recently deleted due to emissions, but still have the RS 125,300 and 500. KTM also have brought Husburg, Gas Gas and recently MV Augusta . So if you cannot beat them buy them ☝️( I’m not a KTM fan ) The SWM 650 engine- that was originally the Husky TE630 motor is actually used in the AJP 650 and the British CCM 650 spitfire etc .

it was the 77 gt750B that had the black side panels, great video!

Man oh man the memories! 😐

The Husqvarna 500AE is rare. I remember Dougie Kerr and Geraint Jones (GB ISDE Riders) both being given these Bikes to Test. Dougie was clocked on a Speed test on a Two-day British Round in the Yair Forest in the Tweed Valley doing 90mpy with a semi-flat front tyre.

Great video, any cbx 1000?

Wow mike i paid 145quid in 1982 DT250 77yr ..my first bike of now over 60...i off roaded it only and to this day ive a pallet for 2 teeth i knocked out when heading over the bars!!!! happy days😣🤣i went on to xl and xr 250 hondas 👌👌 values arnt to bad but pricey enough when your of certain age 🤭atb dave..

Those Suzuki GT triples were something. The XL600 is my favourite here. Stunning. I didn't know they had tubeless tyres. I wouldn't have paid 8,500 for it, though. Nick J

The Candy Blue Elsie at 18:45 oh yes, please! Can keep your Kettles.....

KR1S no two of them, i watched the whole video and you didnt stop by them

Seeing some of those sell of so cheap hurts being in a country where they are unobtainium.

Got steel rod in left hip from 80 GS 1000! 😐

Running out of talent in a corner is such a good way of putting it 😂

were they not selling any British bikes?

Suzuki GT: M = manual, A = automatic ?

Wot! No big Z’s?

The Suzuki kettle, 750 TWO STROKE was a grand tourer? Nah mate, it really wasn't.

What’s going on ? Not one Kawasaki

i came down with bad dose of the wants watching this .

NEVER EVER GET ON THE BACK OF A BIKE WITH A JAMES HUNT.?

mY FATHER OWNED A hONDA SINGLE XL1225XL AND A 175 TWIN DUAL SPORT..tHE 175WAS A LOT HEAVIER AND FASTER THAN THE 125 BUT THE 125 WAS MORE FUN.