Ferrari motorcycled emergence up for trade, asking price US$300,000
For those who’ve forever wanted a Ferrari motorcycle, here’s your option to get one. Not some crappy backyard bodge job or a fuzzy theory – this is the frank thing. It’s the one-off Ferrari motorcycle built by David Kay Engineering and bears skeleton and engine number SF-O1M. It’s the only honestly Ferrari motorcycle in the world.
Back in 1990, David Kay wrote to Piero Ferrari (Enzo Ferrari’s son), asking him if he could figure a motorcycle that would bring the prancing steed badge, in homage to the recent Enzo. Piero did authorize the envisage and gave David the permission to put a Ferrari badge on his motorcycle.
The bicycle, which took 3,000 man hours to shape, was finished in 1995. Its 900cc, four-cylinder, DOHC engine is custom-built, and produces 105 horsepower at 8,800rpm – enough to thrust the 172-kilo bicycle to a top speed of 265km/h.
Other bits on this 1995 Ferrari 900 contain a tubular steel frame, aluminium frame, custom-built exhaust method, digital instrument panel, Forcelle Italia USD fork, Brembo album brakes, 17-edge Astralite wheels and twin WPS shock absorbers at the back.
The bike, which has useless most of its life in its vendor’s depiction scope, is in wonderful, mint clause. Bonhams will be auctioning the mechanism on the 20th of this month, and asking price would be around US$300,000. Now if all your mates are lining up to buy a Ducati Streetfighter S or the MV Agusta Brutale 1078RR, and you want to be one up on them…
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