What, in your thoughts, is essentially the most sum of money someone has bid to efficiently win a bike?
$500,000?
$750k?
Should you guessed over the six-digit spectrum, you’d be proper – and due to a little bit of current motion at Mecum auctions, we’ve bought a contender that almost beat that, touchdown the title of “costliest Harley-Davidson ever bought.”
Any guesses as to what sort of bike is inciting such consideration?

Meet Harley-Davidson’s Strap Tank mannequin; previously, Throttle Excessive tells us {that a} related sibling bought for a record-setting hammer worth of $650,000, incomes her the title of ‘Mona Lisa of Harley-Davidsons.’
As we speak, that legacy has been expanded with a improbable $850,000 successful bid (which equates to $935,000 as soon as public sale charges are included, in keeping with Simon Hancocks from VisorDown).
With the world’s costliest successful bike bid presently logged at $929,00 for a Vincent Black Lightning, goodness is aware of there’s room for inflation within the public sale home – and should you ever end up a strap tank, be good to her and get her tuned up… you by no means understand how a lot they’ll promote for.

Have you ever ever purchased a motorcycle at public sale? What make and mannequin, and why?
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