There is a 1970 CT70 on ebay, bid=$3650, five more days of auction.
I don't want one but someone does.
I've noticed a huge number of these show up on Bring a Trailer. It looks like more than 70 have been sold. They don't have a graph like they do for some models, but I'm guessing the average price is around $4500, with the max around 10k. Who's buying these monkey bikes?
bringatrailer.com/search/?s=ct7
I think that a lot of older/middle aged people have a burning desire to own these small bikes much like when they were youngsters, but Mom and Dad wouldn't or couldn't go along with the idea. Fast forward to today and now they can afford them and buying one transports them back to their childhood and what they think they missed out on. For some money isn't much of a concern so why not? Heck they may even let their kids ride around on these things, until they get hurt. Money is a fickle subject and prices for things such as this are all over the board. Some people will look at what I have spent on my '77 KZ-1000 and ask me if I am nuts, while others fully understand why I did what I did.
I also think some of these purchases are driven by parents that allow their kids to go riding around their neighborhood on a battery operated play vehicle giving no thought at all to the legality of such. I hate to say it, but even in my small subdivision its common to see kids 3 or 4 years old riding in/on a battery operated vehicle with no supervision at all and some of these battery run play vehicles are quite fast. One day it will happen when one of these kids gets run over by someone that doesn't see them and then the blame game will start. LEO's seem to turn a blind eye to some of this today, where in my time if you hit the street on a play vehicle the cops would pounce on you in a heartbeat. My Dad got real tired of having to come and get me and my Homelite go-kart. After the 3rd stop the go-kart was sent away permanently. One youngster in my subdivision has now graduated from a battery run play vehicle to a small gasoline powered bike. He tends to avoid my side of the subdivision for some reason, but he's a real hellion on that little bike and it zips right along on it.
So if any of this has to do with the popularity of these little bikes who knows, but it would be interesting to ask some of the people buying them why they spent big bucks on a little bitty bike.
Rick H.
And yes Marty, your H-D looks very nice.