Check your GasGas history before you get to crazy about feeling "oobligated or entrusted" to preserve this thing.
I'm not talking about the history of that particular model or its launch into the American market.
GasGas was a trials bike company that just couldn't help themselves and built some very very very cool Enduro machines.
Check the history of some of these early Gassers.
The majority of which were ISDE bikes and niche Euro Enduro stuff.
These early bikes would appeal to GasGas collectors and be more the type of bikes you may see on a shelf or hanging from the ceiling.
To be truly collectable a bike would need a pedigree or be the first one of a run of bikes that say won a world championship maybe.Or some famous rider showed up with the thing at a race worthy of some note and beat a bunch of other famous riders asses on something nobody heard of before or weren't supposed to win on.
These are just a few examples of what would make the bike "collectable".
Bottom line is that it doesn't meet any of the criteria for that.
Its not even in mint condition.
Its cool I like it.But its not a show piece or anything that great in the world of motorcycle collecting.
Its something you'd have to tell people about and educate them about and blah blah blah about.And then only then would you maybe convince somebody the thing is special.And they wouldn't know much about bikes.
Collectable bikes speak for themselves.
The guys that know bikes know them when they see them.
You don't have to make a case for them.
Enjoy the thing.That's the true value of that bike.
If you start whooping everybody you ride with asses on the thing then the whole 1st one ever imported thing you hit them with might poke the wound some.
You could have some fun with that.
Tripping over the thing the next 5 years looking for a home for that thing.
Not so much fun.
You could also wait another 15 years or so until they have a vintage class for that thing.Be kinda fun to rail that thing in that kinda "venue"
I'm not beating up the bike.Or devaluing what you think you have.
I'm merely suggesting you find a way to enjoy the thing.
If the guys on the GasGas site aren't getting to excited about it.Trust me.Its gonna be a hard sell getting somebody else excited about it.
I'm also the kind of guy who although a vintage Penton is cool as shit.
And is much more collectable.
Would rather ride the crap out of that Gasser then trip over a Penton sitting in my garage the rest of my life.Been there done that. Way overrated.
Or go to bike shows with the thing and blah blah with a bunch of has beens and listen to their bs story's all day.
Think-live like you were dying.
Hope this helps.
BTW does anybody have the link to that GasGas vintage enduro website?
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