By Manuel Garriga | 1st June 2018
In our Expert’s Choice feature, one of our in-house experts shares their favourite objects in auction. This week our motorcycles expert, Manuel Garriga, selected several harder-to-find European motorcycles from our Special Motorcycles auction (1st - 17th June) that collectors and enthusiasts everywhere won't want to miss.
See something that sets your heart racing? Manuel explains just why each of these models can be called unique for their characteristics, design, condition and rarity below.
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1. MV Agusta F4
Created by highly-respected engineer Massimo Tamburini, the F4 entails the legendary Italian brand resurrection by the end of the 20th century. Its in-line four - one of those rare superbike engines with hemispherical combustion chambers - derives from the 1990 Ferrari F-1 engine. Two years after its launch in 2002, MV created a limited series of 50 transformation kits that would lead to the F4 SP01 (Special Parts 01), distinguishable by its blue and silver livery and its magnesium wheels. Each bike bears a numbered plate and a certificate of authenticity signed by Tamburini himself. The SP01 offered on Catawiki, in outstanding condition and with several extras, is number 40 of this series.
2. Bimota Motorcycles
Bimota is an acronym for the surnames of the manufacturer’s founders Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini, and its philosophy is quite particular: building accurately short series of motorbikes with Japanese engines - also Ducati, Gilera and Harley - and highly sophisticated frames of own design. This auction features two Bimota. The first is a totally original 1985 SB5 with known history, one of the 158 produced, featured in Giorgio Sarti’s book ‘Bimota: 25 Years of Excellence’. The second is a very rare 2010 DB5R Robbiano (just 30 units built) - one of the latest creations of celebrated Italian designer Sergio Robbiano (1966-2014) that won the Motorcycle Design Award - in virtually new condition with barely 800 km on the odometer.
3. Moko POWA
The Moko POWA D10 is one of the most innovative and avant-garde concept bikes of the 80s. Famous motor journalist Alan Cathcart includes it in his book ‘Dream Bikes’. It was conceived by the Swiss Hans Walter on the basis of a Yamaha FZ 750 with the aim of reducing consumption, improving performance and lowering noise. Launched at the Zurich Motorcycle Show in 1988, it could reach a maximum speed of 301 km/h with its standard 110 bhp FZ engine. Only 6 of the 10 units built by Moko are known to survive. Registered in France in 2000, this motorcycle was restored in 2015 and has only done 3,500 km.
4. Pepo Rosell's Motorcycles
Among the most outstanding motorcycle tuners on the international scene is Spanish artist Pepo Rosell, the creative brain behind the amazing Radical Ducati productions and now leading his new company XTR Pepo. Few professionals have such a personal and risky style, that's why he has received numerous awards and is considered a true trend setter. In fact, it is said that Rosell has more customer in the United States and Japan than in his own country. Catawiki has gathered some of Pepo’s best motorcycles for this auction: the Honda 600 Four, a Ducati 750 SS, a Ducati 750 Ulster XTR and the Triumph 1000 Speed Triple, a spectacular quartet for their impressive aesthetics and the careful choice of its components.
5. 2009 Oldstyle
If there is a motorcycle that can be synonymous of extreme transformations, this is the Harley-Davidson. But beyond the mass produced custom mainstream there are some jaw-dropping machines that leave us in awe. Catawiki brings you a very special machine in this auction: a striking 2009 Oldstyle - featured in Bikes & Babes magazine - the work of German specialist Schubert, an aesthetic and conceptual boast that includes building a new chassis and body around the Milwaukee V-twin.
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