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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Most Expensive Motorcycle - world record set
by House of Thunder
LUBEK, Germany -- Custom bike builders House
of Thunder have built a custom motorcyle based on
a stock Harley Rocker that comes with its own (mobile)
'garage', a 45metre transoceanic yacht (built by Sunrise
Yachts)- for a 22.66 million U.S. dollars price tag
-seting the world record for the Most
Expensive Motorcycle (with 'garage'). 
Photo: The Most
Expensive Motorcycle is based on a stock Harley
Rocker with a cleaned-up frame, hand-fashioned fenders
and fuel tank. (enlarge
photo)
The Most
Expensive Motorcycle also features a foldable handlebar
allowing the bike to be lifted in and out of ‘parking position’
in the small garage in the rear of the boat.
 “We
still will build our normal custom bikes for our customers,
but this is a completely new market and we always welcome
new impulses for markets yet unexplored,” said Eric Vauth
of House
of Thunder .
(enlarge
photo)
New Antalya, Turkey-based Yacht manufacturer
Sunrise
Yachts (www.sunriseyachts.com),
founded by German Harley-Davidson and custom bike enthusiast
Herbert Baum, has built this incredible 45 metre yatch with
a rear garage, which houses a rescue-boat, two jet skis and
a custom
Harley-Davidson, built and painted to match the boat’s
livery.
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Fastest
steam-powered car-world record set by Inspiration
Sunday,
December 27, 2009
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