Motorcycle Auction Las Vegas

[Supercharged]

Anylne Rving up to Las Vegas for the Auction later this week.
Two auctions, should be close to one thousand cycles.

[Skid_Row_Joe]

Supercharged wrote:
It is well known that Haley's have leak far more in the USA than Exxon Valdez did.

:W

[Supercharged]

It is well known that Haley's have leak far more in the USA than Exxon Valdez did.

[westend]

Supercharged wrote:

westend wrote:

Supercharged wrote:
Great auction, My father bought a 1936 Harley knucklehead new for $360, this week two of them sold for $150,00 and $160,000. The bike was a one year run, and and was a poorly build cycle at the time. Pays to be wrong.

I dunno' about the poorly built part, I had a '47 and it was fairly stout. Mine had the pedal clutch and the tank-side shifter. It rode pretty good, about the only thing I didn't like was the adjustable timing. Forget to set that right, kick it, and you could have yourself up in the air. At $150K, I guess I wish it was still around.

With Harley you have better than 50/50 it was a bad bike.

Not my experience but it doesn't matter. I've had bikes built in Asia, Europe, and the USA, I'm not a geographic hater or lover of anything in particular.

What kind of amazes me is to see some old yuppie on a low rider hard tail acting like he's having fun. :B

[fj12ryder]

Oh yeah, I know a lot of parts on the Harley are foreign parts, but I just didn't know about the Japanese involvement in the development of the Evo motor.

[GoPackGo]

I seem to remember that Mikuni (Japanese) made the carb for HD for a while and that HD used Japanese forks at some point too ???

And guess where that high output motor for the Ford Taurus SHO came from - Yamaha.

[fj12ryder]

I'm not a Harley fan so I wasn't aware that the Japanese had input in the design of the Evo motor. Learn something new every day. 🙂

[Supercharged]

fj12ryder wrote:
And still do. LOL

Just kidding, Harley makes a pretty reliable bike now, as opposed to when AMF owned it, and before the Evolution motor came out.

Your right, the Japanese did a good job on redoing the engine for Harley, so they make something that would run more than 10,000 miles.

[fj12ryder]

And still do. LOL

Just kidding, Harley makes a pretty reliable bike now, as opposed to when AMF owned it, and before the Evolution motor came out.

[Supercharged]

westend wrote:

Supercharged wrote:
Great auction, My father bought a 1936 Harley knucklehead new for $360, this week two of them sold for $150,00 and $160,000. The bike was a one year run, and and was a poorly build cycle at the time. Pays to be wrong.

I dunno' about the poorly built part, I had a '47 and it was fairly stout. Mine had the pedal clutch and the tank-side shifter. It rode pretty good, about the only thing I didn't like was the adjustable timing. Forget to set that right, kick it, and you could have yourself up in the air. At $150K, I guess I wish it was still around.

With Harley you have better than 50/50 it was a bad bike.

[nevadanick]

On the website it has a results tab but it will be awhile before the Vegas results are on there. You can see lots of past results though.

[Ski_Pro_3]

Just looked through the catalog. I've owned several of those bikes in the past. The Kawasaki 750 H2 I had in 1977. The Husqvarna 1975 WR400. The Elsinore 250, the Honda CT90 and the S90. (I still have 4 Honda CT90's; one is museum quality) the Yamaha RD350, the Kawasaki 120 in red, The Honda 300 scrambler, the Honda CL125, the Yamaha DT1,... Wow that brings back a lot of memories!!

I wonder what they went for? Is there a way to find out what they auctioned for?

[westend]

Supercharged wrote:
Great auction, My father bought a 1936 Harley knucklehead new for $360, this week two of them sold for $150,00 and $160,000. The bike was a one year run, and and was a poorly build cycle at the time. Pays to be wrong.

I dunno' about the poorly built part, I had a '47 and it was fairly stout. Mine had the pedal clutch and the tank-side shifter. It rode pretty good, about the only thing I didn't like was the adjustable timing. Forget to set that right, kick it, and you could have yourself up in the air. At $150K, I guess I wish it was still around.

[fj12ryder]

Supercharged wrote:
Great auction, My father bought a 1936 Harley knucklehead new for $360, this week two of them sold for $150,00 and $160,000. The bike was a one year run, and and was a poorly build cycle at the time. Pays to be wrong.

Nah, not wrong. Even Edsels sell to collectors now. 🙂 Doesn't matter if it was any good, just that it's now "collectable".

[Targa]

I'll take the Ducati 851 and the Harley VR1000.