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Ending Soon – 2014 Walt Siegl Leggero Toronto

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Post-Listing Update: After getting no action at the opening bid of $34,000, this bike was relisted and again got no interest at $30,000. This is obviously an incredible bike, but it looks like no one’s interested at these kind of prices. A couple of years ago, Walt Siegl started building a limited run of custom motorcycles based on Ducati 900cc …

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Hershey’s Promo – 2008 MV Agusta F4

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In the recent Batman trilogy with Christian Bale, my favorite movie was the second – The Dark Knight. MV Agusta had a promotional deal that included some screen time for their F4 superbike in that movie, and for some reason Hershey’s Chocolate ran a promotion with a special grand prize: a Dark Knight-themed F4 valued at $35,000.

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1 of 207 – 1988 Ducati 851 Tricolore

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Ducati released the 851 to the world in 1987, and it was the introduction of four valve Desmo heads. It made Ducati a competitive race team again (they’d end up winning the 1990 World SBK Championship with this model). For homologation purposes, they released 207 “kit” versions of the Tricolore, some of which were converted to be street legal – …

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Go Touring – 1971 Bultaco Metralla Mk2

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Post-Listing Update: This Metralla tourer was pulled off of eBay, final sale price unknown. The Metralla is a legend in the world of classic bikes, but because they were the fastest two-stroke bike you could buy at the time, most people used them in racing or sport riding applications. Here’s an example with a rare factory fairing that’ll allow you …

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1989 Yamaha FZR1000

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Post-Sale Update: After 52 bids on eBay, this Fizzer sold for $6,455. When it was introduced in 1987, the Yamaha FZR1000 was an instant classic – Cycle World called it Bike of the Decade two years later, no thanks to the overwhelming amount of horsepower.

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1983 Honda CX650T Turbo

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Just one year after Honda released the CX500T (their first turbo’d production bike), they enlarged the motor and and created the CX650T instead. The big 4 Japanese firms all had turbocharged bikes during this time period, but Honda had one of the more successful experiments with about 1,200 CX650 Turbos exported to the US>