The world's most expensive motorcycle...
03-11-14, 04:46 PM
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The world's most expensive motorcycle...
Lauge Jensen – World’s Most Expensive Motorcycle
March 11, 2014
By Tim Watson
RideApart Link
Not many things surprise us at RideApart, but when a customized, hand-built motorcycle sells for a staggering $850,000 it does make us raise an eyebrow and wonder what exactly wealthy people are doing with their money.
Danish design and engineering company Lauge Jensen, deals almost exclusively with high end clients building one-off custom bikes to order and it recently sold a what is thought to be the world’s most expensive motorcycle ever built.
There was nothing exceptional about the bike. It did not feature one of a kind technology, nor was it a unique engineering masterpiece, or even a motorcycle with some type of special history.
Instead, the bike, christened Goldfinger, was plated with 24-karat gold and covered from forks to tail fender with 250 small diamonds totaling more than seven carats. The seat was upholstered with crocodile skin and more than 850 of the bike’s parts were gold-plated individual by hand.
Normally, customers approach Lauge Jensen with an idea for a bike they want but on this occasion the company built Goldfinger without a customer order and then took it to private events earlier this year, staged in Monaco and Dubai, to show potential buyers.
Somebody at one of these gatherings saw the bike, liked what they saw and handed over $850,000. Nobody knows who the buyer is, or where the bike will be kept as Lauge Jensen declined to comment.
The builder's website: http://www.laugejensen.dk/
March 11, 2014
By Tim Watson
RideApart Link
Not many things surprise us at RideApart, but when a customized, hand-built motorcycle sells for a staggering $850,000 it does make us raise an eyebrow and wonder what exactly wealthy people are doing with their money.
Danish design and engineering company Lauge Jensen, deals almost exclusively with high end clients building one-off custom bikes to order and it recently sold a what is thought to be the world’s most expensive motorcycle ever built.
There was nothing exceptional about the bike. It did not feature one of a kind technology, nor was it a unique engineering masterpiece, or even a motorcycle with some type of special history.
Instead, the bike, christened Goldfinger, was plated with 24-karat gold and covered from forks to tail fender with 250 small diamonds totaling more than seven carats. The seat was upholstered with crocodile skin and more than 850 of the bike’s parts were gold-plated individual by hand.
Normally, customers approach Lauge Jensen with an idea for a bike they want but on this occasion the company built Goldfinger without a customer order and then took it to private events earlier this year, staged in Monaco and Dubai, to show potential buyers.
Somebody at one of these gatherings saw the bike, liked what they saw and handed over $850,000. Nobody knows who the buyer is, or where the bike will be kept as Lauge Jensen declined to comment.
The builder's website: http://www.laugejensen.dk/
03-11-14, 04:52 PM
#3
Yea, I bought it. No more questions please...
03-11-14, 05:15 PM
#4
Well at least no one will steal it with that chain and Master Lock on the front wheel. 
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