AJS E95 Porcupine, the motorbike worth over half a million euros at auction

It will be auctioned starting from a base of approximately $750.000 525.000 €. We are talking about the most expensive motorcycle in the world, she is there AJS E95 Porcupine, one of the four examples produced way back in 1952. The motorbike which was restored by the English Team Obsolete has remained the property of the National Motorcycle Museum of Coventry. But in a few months, precisely in August, Bonham's will auction it with a starting price of over half a million euros.

Before ending up in Coventry, the motorbike belonged to Tom Arter, a private motorcyclist, who sold it at auction for 157.770 pounds, around 110.000 euros that the National Motorcycle Museum paid to secure it, in 2000. Now, just over In 11 years the example of this motorcycle of immense historical value has quintupled its economic value, a real bargain for the National Motorcycle Museum in Coventry.

The AJS E95 Porcupine was developed during the years of the Second World War, introducing the multi-cylinder engine, a liquid-cooled V4, which however was difficult to manage especially due to the exaggerated consumption which required the adoption of a larger fuel tank. Continuous developments ended in 1952 when only 4 Porcupines left AJS production.