If you are a lover of rare Italian motorcycles and have overseas holiday money burning a hole in your wallet,...
An extremely rare 1940s AJS 497cc E90 ‘Porcupine’ Grand Prix racing motorcycle is being offered for the first time at...
There should be a lot of interest among Aussie race fans for an auction of memorabilia belonging to beloved Brit and adopted Aussie Barry Sheene. The two-time Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion and all-round larrikin was well loved in his adopted country where he died in 2003 from throat cancer. Now...
Two 250cc Benelli Grand Prix racing motorcycles have broken the auction world records for the marque at the live and...
If you ever wanted to buy a classic motorcycle or bike-related memorabilia at auction, the Bonhams three-day bike bonanza could...
A collection of motorcycles gathered over 40 years by motorcycle manufacturer and Grand Prix boss Giancarlo Morbidelli will finally go to auction after twice being postponed. The world-class selection of 200 post-war road and racing motorcycles from the celebrated Morbidelli Motorcycle Museum in Pesaro, Italy, was to be sold at the annual...
Harley-Davidson has donated a customised electric LiveWire motorcycle autographed by the Davidson family to be auctioned to raise funds for the...
This Vincent Rapide, believe to be one of the first Series-A Rapide’s manufactured and possibly the last Vincent-HRD motorcycle to leave...
A collection of motorcycles gathered over 40 years by motorcycle manufacturer and Grand Prix boss Giancarlo Morbidelli will be offered for sale at auction on 25-26 April 2020. The collection was to be sold at the annual Bonhams Autumn Stafford Sale on 18-20 October 2019. However, the auction was postponed due to...
A Harley-Davidson signed by Pope Francis has sold at the Bonham’s Autumn Stafford sale in the UK for a bargain...
A Harley-Davidson signed by Pope Francis is the holy highlight of the Bonham’s Autumn Stafford sale in the UK on...
Motorcycles belonging to the late Bruce Brown, director of perhaps the greatest motorcycle film of all time, On Any Sunday, will go on sale next month. Bruce died of natural causes, aged 80, died in December 2017, but his legend lives on in his Academy Award nominated 1971 film. Now you...
A collection of motorcycles gathered over 40 years by motorcycle manufacturer and Grand Prix boss Giancarlo Morbidelli is being offered...
The Brough Superior outfit used in the hit British comedy TV shows George and Mildred and Dad’s Army has sold at a...
You stupid boy, get on your bike and check out this Brough Superior outfit used in the hit British comedy TV shows Dad’s Army and George and Mildred. The 1933 Brough Superior 1096cc 11-50hp and Cruiser Sidecar is heading to the Bonhams annual Spring Stafford Sale at the International Classic...
Steve McQueen continues to set motorcycle records 38 years after his death with his Triumph Speed Twin fetching the highest...
Steve McQueen motorcycles and memorabilia continues to rate highly among collectors with his 1970 Husqvarna 400 Cross selling for $US230,500...
Motorcycles from movies such as Easy Rider and On Any Sunday and other bikes owned by famous Hollywood stars are coming up for auction. The highlight of the Bonham’s Barber Auction at the Barber Motorsports Museum in Alabama on October 6 is Steve McQueen’s 1970 Husqvarna 400 from the cult 1971 film On...
It seems police have always had high-powered pursuit bikes with this 100mph (160km/h) Coventry-Eagle Flying-8 dating back to the 1930s....
On Australia Day, an Australian speed-record-holding 1951 Vincent Black Lightning has set a world record at the Bonham’s annual Las...
An important collection of classic American motorcycles has joined an Australian speed-record-holding 1951 Vincent Black Lightning heading for auction in January. The New England collection of Indian, Harley-Davidson, Henderson and Excelsior comes from the private collection of noted businessman James Jalbert. It will be part of Bonhams’ world-renowned Las Vegas...
A replica of the first motorcycle, which was made of wood, is being auctioned in the UK this weekend and...
A significant European collection of 16 Italian motorcycles is a highlight of the Spring Stafford Sale on April 23, 2017, that should whet...
Two sets of race leathers with historic Australian racing history are being offered at the Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale on April 23. Apart from a host of interesting race and barn-find bikes, the race leathers of Mike Hailwood (pictured above) and Graeme Crosby will be of interest to Aussie racing...
Nearly 40 Ducatis, including 15 from the famous Silverman Museum Racing Collection, are up for sale at the seventh annual Bonhams...
Star Wars actor and noted motorcycle world traveller Ewan McGregor is selling his 2012 “Indian Larry” Panhead Chopper at a...
Long before amateur custom bike builders fused Triumph engines into Norton featherbed frames to make the Triton in the 1960s and ’70s, Vincent and Indian collaborated on a couple of hybrid prototypes that were stillborn projects. In 1948, the manager of Indian Motorcycles, Ralph Rogers, and the director of Vincent HRD,...
The seventh Bonhams’ Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction is expected to again feature some highly desirable bikes and paraphernalia, as well as...
A rusted 1932 Brough Superior 800cc Model BS4 Project motorcycle lost for more than 50 years has sold at the...
A collection of motorcycles belonging to Giuseppe Visenzi, a former Italian Grand Prix racer and founder of Givi motorcycle accessories company, is being auctioned for charity. The collection of 14 motorcycles includes a c.1962 Honda 125cc CR93 racing motorcycle, estimated at $40,00-45,000AUD, the ex-Noboru ‘Nobby’ Ueda, Givi Racing, 1994 Honda RS125...
The star power of Hollywood legend and motorbike racer Steve McQueen has again been proved with a Triumph Bonneville called the “Desert...
One of the most iconic motorbikes of modern pop culture would have to be the 1970s Harley-Davidson XL 1000 Evel...
Eight long-lost Brough Superior motorcycles, believed to have been destroyed, have been found in a Cornish village and will be sold at a Bonhams auction in April, 2016. The bikes were stored in Bodmin Moor barns for more than 50 years and were discovered whole and in parts, under decades...
Have you ever wished you could buy a motorcycle you’ve seen in a museum? Dream no longer, because now you can!...
A 1963 Triumph Bonneville “Desert Sled” owned by Steve McQueen is one of several rare motorcycles up for sale at...
A 1934 Indian 750cc Sport Scout once owned by Hollywood star and motorcycle fanatic Steve McQueen has sold at auction for £59,740 ($A127,000). That may sound like a lot, but it’s nowhere near the almost $1 million paid for his 1915 Cyclone board tracker in May. McQueen’s Indian was one...
Perhaps the biggest and most impressive single-owner motorcycle collection is headed to the Bonhams Autumn Stafford Sale in the UK in...
Several Brough Superior motorcycles – once considered the Rolls-Royce of the bike world – are going up for auction in...
A Harley-Davidson owned by the Pope has sold at a Paris auction for the “bargain” price of $67,700. The Harley Heritage Softail was one of two Harleys gifted to Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate Harley-Davidson’s 110th anniversary last year. When he resigned in 2013, Pope Benedict was replaced by Pope...
Steve McQueen’s reputation and the collectibility of classic British motorcycles were highlights of the annual Bonhams motorcycle auction in Las...
If you’re a fan of Easy Rider, Long Way Down, Mike Hailwood, bike racing or just rare bikes, then get...
A large collection of photos from Ewan McGregor’s and Charley Boorman’s Long Way Down motorcycle journey will be part of an eclectic mix of motorcycle items up for auction in Las Vegas in January. The 32-piece framed collection captures scenes of the duo’s 2007 14,000km Long Way Down odyssey from...
A boyhood dream to one day own classic Japanese motorcycles from the 1980s and 1990 is now going up for...
Rare motorcycles such as a technicolor Honda and the most powerful motorcycle in the world in 1914 are among the eclectic...
More than $3.2m has been paid for some rare racing bikes, Ducatis, Harleys and a couple of Indians owned by Hollywood legend and motorcycle fanatic Steve McQueen. The Bonhams auction at Bally’s Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas included one of the best collections of historic Ducatis in the world...
Racing royalty is up for sale next month in possible one of the most prestigious motorcycle auctions in years. The...
A former Barry Sheene motorcycle has helped set a new world auction record. The Bonhams annual sale of collector motorcycles...
A 1901 Ariel 345cc Quadricycle will be auctioned in November at the same spot in London where it was sold 112 years ago. The Ariel, frame no. 85, engine no. 607, is estimated to sell for up to $60,000. It was bought in the Ariel dealership in New Bond Street...
The earliest known Harley-Davidson Sportster in existence could be yours. The first-year model believed to be the 10th XL883 produced...