WWD reports that last Friday the Chanel boutique on Rue Royale in Paris featured a motorcycle customized for Chanel in Toulouse, France.
However this motorcycle is not made to be sold, Karl Lagerfeld was only shooting the press kit for Chanel’s pre-spring collection “Starting Point” with the models Lara Stone and Baptiste Giacobini.
These chic motorcycle helmets are now available in Moschino’s online store.
Mix of technology and attention to detail make Moschino helmets really cool but also comfortable, safe and sturdy.
A must have for fashion city riders that want to be protected from injuries and at the same time need something special and really nice, full of colours and happiness.
Chicara Nagata’s award-winning motorcycles are literally unparalleled. They are not just motorcycles, but masterpieces.
Probably that is why three of them are featured in an exhibit at New York’s Ippodo Gallery and the Contemporary Asian Art Fair. The bikes are as meticulously crafted as they are stunningly detailed, blending vintage parts with modern design to create motorcycles that are simultaneously retro and futuristic.
Chicara’s art is his expression of gratefulness to the very machines that almost killed him, and to the people who saved him when a motorcycle accident nearly killed him at the age of 16. Thus was born a graphic designer who soon took on to become a mobike builder.
He has built 13 bikes so far. Nagata won the grand prize in the 2006 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building for Chicara Art I, a sleek retro-ride powered by a 1939 Harley-Davidson U motor.
Other than the antique Harley Davidson engines, the 500 parts used in his every motorcycle- including the frames, the suspension components and even the throttle assemblies and hand controls - are designed and made by Nagata.
The three bikes at Ippodo gallery are priced at $ 1 million each.
Interesting Ferrari motorcycle concept by Israeli industrial designer Amir Glinik based on the engine of a Ferrari Enzo car.
Using drive-by-wire technology, the V4 superbike features hand controls adapted from an F-16 fighter jet and buttons nbased on those found on the steering wheel of Ferrari’s Formula 1 racecars.
Other controls for the soud system and trip computer are located on an all weather touchscreen.
Bonhams celebrated its best ever motorcycle sale at Stafford in April, achieving several world record prices in a storming sale that realised £2,000,000 ($4,000,000). This is the highest ever sale total for any UK motorcycle sale, emphatically confirming Bonhams position as clear market leader for collectors motorcycles.
This was the first of four dedicated motorcycle sales at Bonhams this year, and launched the 2008 calendar in commanding fashion, with 88% of all lots selling and the top three bikes each realising over £100,000 ($200,0000 – all three selling to UK private collectors.
The 1934 Brough Superior 996cc SS100 made top price of £166,500 ($330,000) – a world record price for the model and the highest price ever paid for a British motorcycle at auction.
The Brough Superior, a rare example of this legendary pre-war superbike, represented the JAP-engined SS100 in its ultimate form. Incorporating ‘two of everything’ (carburettors, magnetos, oil pumps), it was one of only six made to this specification in 1934 and retained its original frame, engine and registration mark. The machine formed part of the Murray Motorcycle Museum Collection in the Isle of Man from 1973 to 2005.
The next auction will be held on monday : Bonhams will auction off an astounding collection of vintage motorcycles worth $2 million at the Royal Air Force Museum in London.
The sale represents the largest single-owner collection of motorbikes ever to come to auction; all 300 machines are from the Professor Fritz Ehn Motorcycle Museum in Austria. (source : press release)
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