Brough Superior Sells for Nearly $400,000

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com

Rare bikes are fetching hefty prices.

A 1934 Brough Superior SS100 sold at auction in Stafford, England last weekend for £242,300 (or roughly $394,000). The bike features a 75-horsepower JAP twin-cylinder engine. Only eight SS100s were made for the model year, with one of them set to go to T.E. Lawrence, who died before it could be delivered.

Picture is Courtesy of Bonhams

At that same auction, a 1939 Vincent Rapide sold for £225,500 and a 1955 Vincent Black Shadow – the last one ever made – sold for £124,700.

The auctioning firm, Bonhams, did not disclose who bought the motorcycles.

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Under the heading of “idiot rider,” a man in Idaho Falls, ID received a hefty sentence Tuesday in which he faked a motorcycle crash to get insurance money. The state attorney general’s office reported that 31-year-old Jason Preston had his girl friend drive his pickup “40-50 miles per hour” and he then pushed the bike out of the bed and into the road. A.G.’s spokesman Bob Cooper said Preston then had his girl friend drag him as well so that his clothes would look like he had gone down. For the July 2011 caper, Preston received one to four years in prison, 20 days in the county jail, 100 hours of community service and four years probation, according to KTVB.