MOTORCYCLES

2 Million Miles with Velocettes

40 years of week-long, 1000 mile rallies with the Velocette Owner's Club adds…

The ‘Lost’ Indian Four

There was more going on at Indian in the 1930s than meets the eye: they…

The Essential Machine

Is there anything as lonely as riding a single-cylinder motorcycle on a…

The Anamosa Broughs: a Superior Collection

Three Brough Superiors are included in the National Motorcycle Museum auction…

The Rarest of Racers: 1915 Indian 8-Valve

With a documented history since the early 1920s, this 1915 Indian 8-Valve racer…

STILRIDE’s Industrial Origami

The radical design of the STILRIDE scooter is actually a proof-of-concept…

Brough Superior – Back to Bonneville (2013)

Mark Upham purchased the Brough Superior name and rights in 2013, and set about…

Praise for The Unloved

Small motorcycles are not part of the conversation in the USA: our domestic…

Fratelli Benelli Racing

The six Benelli brothers invested their time and resources to build one of the…

Top Ten at Mecum Las Vegas 2023

From an ultra-rare 1920s BMW sports roadster to a flashy lightweight Sputnik to…

World’s Top 100 Most Expensive Motorcycles – The Also-Rans

We've kept track of the World's Most Expensive Motorcycles since 2009: see our Top 100 list here.  These are motorcycles sold at public auction ONLY!  We have another list of World's Most Expensive Private Motorcycle Sales as we know them - check here - but motorcycles sold at auction are the only verifiable sales.  Private sales are not verifiable!  The following are the 'also rans' that fell off the Top 100 list as other, more expensive motorcycles have been added to the Top 100.  These are still an exceptional list of motorcycles, and shine…

Bikes of Burden: the Habal-Habal

Venice is famous for gondolas: the Philippines is famous for Jeepneys,…

Mopeds to South America

This is a story of two young men who set out on a quest to accomplish something…