Bonhams’ excessive-profile auctions normally throw up some surprises. However few are as huge as this one. Maximum vintage bikes well worth greater than $one hundred,000 are quite widely known, however have you ever ever heard of the German emblem Windhoff? Me neither.
Yet this restored 1928 example, fresh from a private museum, become given an estimate of between
$145,000 & $190,000.
The Windhoff has a excessive estimate as it changed into the pleasant of its type within the inter-war years. The engine is an
OHC oil-cooled four. It’s also large for that era, at
746cc, and is a harassed member of the frame. Rarity helps too: Hans Windhoff’s employer went out of business in
1933, a sufferer of Germany’s economic travails, and few of his creations survive. This one, luckily, has had a charmed existence, with simply three proprietors so far.
Bonhams prices motorbike historian Erwin Tragatch as announcing the Windhoff is perhaps “the maximum precise, innovative and beautiful motorcycle ever made.” It’s one among six eclectic machines from the identical collection that went underneath the hammer on the conventional motorcycle display in Stafford in 2012. Different lots include a 1992 ROC-Yamaha 500cc GP racer, a 1931 Douglas 750cc sidecar outfit, a Brough advanced and two Vincents.
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