1924 Montgomery Sells For £109,350
The word from Bonhams after the auction held at the Classic Motorcycle Show in Stafford last weekend;
1924 MONTGOMERY SELLS FOR A MARQUE WORLD RECORD £109,350 AT BONHAMS’ SALE
The Classic MotorCycle Show, Stafford, 23 April 2006
Headed by Malcolm Barber in the USA and Ben Walker in London, Bonhams’ world-class Motorcycle Department is renowned for the superior quality of its service to clients, setting a standard that lesser rivals cannot match. Totally eclipsing the opposition, the company celebrated its first major collectors’ motorcycle sale of 2006 in typically exuberant fashion, emphatically asserting its position as undisputed market leader with yet another ‘80-Plus’ sale, this year’s outstanding figures being 85% of lots sold for a premium-inclusive total of £795,322.
Enfield 350 Bullet for 2K
The news from Royal Enfield UK, who have a bargain deal on the 350 Bullet model;
Buy a new Bullet 350cc Classic motorcycle for £1,995 on the road.
Royal Enfield has turned back the clock by reducing the prices of its Classic models by up to 10%. That means you can buy a brand new Bullet 350cc motorcycle for under £2,000 and the 500cc version for just over £2,500 including on the road charges.
The Royal Enfield Bullet, which has been in continuous production for over 50 years, has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity since UK distribution was taken over by Watsonian Squire in 1999.
Suzuki Lead World Endurance Series
The latest from the Team Suzuki Press Office.
Reigning World Endurance Champions Suzuki Castrol won the Assen 500km opening round of the FIM World Endurance Championship in Holland today after leading from the start.
Although one rider down after Mathieu Lagrive crashed and injured himself yesterday, the SERT GSX-R1000 had pulled a lap ahead by the half-way point of the four-hour event and team rider Vincent Philippe also set the fastest lap of the race with a time of 1:43.659.
Hit & Run Appeal
A Cheshire biker who suffered leg injuries after he was knocked off his motorbike in a hit and run incident is appealing to the driver who hit him to come forward.
Chris Ward, of Rudheath Close in Crewe, was travelling home from work in Nantwich along the A530 Middlewich Road when he stopped in traffic outside the Rising Sun pub at Wistaston.
The 37-year-old says his Suzuki 125cc motorbike was struck from behind by a red Rover 200 car which knocked him off his machine. The car reversed before speeding off.
H&M Motorcycle Auction June 24th-25th
The latest from H & H Auctions, who are having a motorcycle sale at the Motorcycle Museum, near Birmingham.
H&H’s next dedicated motorcycle and bicycle sale will take place at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham on June 24/25.
Said George Beale, director of H&H’s motorcycle department, “This is a potentially excellent venue and we are very much looking forward to our first sale there. Our ever-expanding department is working hard to secure suitable entries.”
The most recent appointment is that of David Hawkins to manage the department day-to-day under George Beale and take responsibility for the company’s sales on a worldwide basis. David is the former head of Bonhams’ motorcycle department, prior to which he worked for its equivalent at Sotheby’s.
