By The Numbers - Up To Speed

Big Money

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By The Numbers Right Side View
$120,000 MSRP of the MV Agusta F4 CC, the world's most expensive production motorcycle.
$126,000 Price of NCR's 2009 Mike Hailwood TT replica, which begins life as an $11,999 Ducati Sport 1000.
8 Number of 1981 Ducati Mike Hailwood Replicas you could buy for the price of one NCR bike, and still have $4320 in change. An exceptional original sold at auction for $15,210 last May.
$150,000 What it takes to look like Jay Leno with your own MTT Turbine jet-powered superbike.
$155,000 Price paid for Steve McQueen's 1934 Indian Sport Scout 45, sold at auction in 2006.
$135,000 Premium for McQueen provenance, compared to fair market value for any other 1934 Indian Sport Scout 45.
$275,000 Price of the limited-edition (10 total) Ecosse Titanium Series streetfighter.
$5000 Approximate retail value of the color-matched BRM wristwatch included with each Ecosse Titanium Series streetfighter.
$520,000 Most ever paid at auction for a motorcycle, a 1915 Cyclone board-track racer sold in Monterey in July 2008.
$550,000 Price for the Dodge Tomahawk V10 "motorcycle" (technically a quad that rolls on four very close-set wheels). Non-running reproductions were sold as "rolling sculptures" exclusively through the 2003 Neiman Marcus Christmas book.
392.85714 Number of Chinese-made 150cc knock-off Tomahawks, available over the Internet for $1400, that you could buy for the price of one Neiman Marcus re-pop. The knock-offs actually run.
$1.4 million Current asking price for the legendary, record-setting Rollie Free Vincent Black Lightning. It remains on the market.
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