New Atlas:

There is little doubt that the motorcycle auction marketplace was evolving at the year-defining Las Vegas auctions this year, both on a macro and micro level. Mecum’s five day sale from January 23 to 27 was the largest single auction of motorcycles ever held, with Bonhams’ one day sale setting a new world record for a motorcycle sold at auction by fetching $979,000 for a 1951 Vincent Black Lightning.

I don’t know enough motorcycle history to really appreciate some of these bikes but I bet some of you are old enough to have owned them and will weep silent tears when you see what they went for at auction.

To me, the “most interesting” award goes to the 1975 Hercules Wankel – yes, a Wankel rotary engine on a motorcycle.