The recently held 34th annual world’s largest vintage and antique motorcycle auction, Mecum Las Vegas 2025, set a handful of very important records in the collector motorcycle world that will have everyone talking for quite some time to come. The Jan. 29-Feb. 1 event not only became the most successful and highest-earning motorcycle auction ever in recorded history with $27.2 million in overall sales, but it also achieved several world-record-setting individual motorcycle sales. As an event that both takes the temperature and sets the tone of the collector motorcycle world each January in regards to the year ahead, the Mecum Las Vegas event this year demonstrated an already-strong market that is on the rise and grabbing more attention than ever from passionate enthusiasts, collectors and even savvy-minded investors.
Leading all sales at the Las Vegas event and all motorcycle sales at any public auction ever, the 1915 Cyclone V-Twin (Lot S106.2) became the first motorcycle ever to sell at public auction for more than $1 million when it sold for an incredible $1,320,000 after spirited bidding caused the price to quickly soar into the seven-figure range. Aside from its extreme rarity and general desirability as a highly significant piece of motorcycling history, the Cyclone also boasted a comprehensive restoration by expert restorer Stephen Wright as well as status as a member of the revered Urban S. Hirsch III Collection. In fact, a full eight of the top 10 motorcycle sales in Las Vegas were achieved by offerings from The Urban S. Hirsch III Collection, including the second highest seller at the event: a 1938 Crocker Twin (Lot S108.2) that demanded $880,000. Like the Cyclone, the Crocker was also a record-setter, becoming the most valuable Crocker ever sold at public auction and one of the top five most valuable motorcycles of any marque ever sold at public auction.
While motorcycles from 13 distinct decades were on offer at the Las Vegas auction, historic antiquity definitely came out on top this year with all but one 1974 Ducati 750SS (Lot F199) hailing from the first half of the 20th century or earlier, as in the case of the No. 10 top seller, a 1898 De Dion-Bouton Tricycle (Lot S123) that sold for $165,000. The six-figure sale of the De Dion claimed another auction record as the trike became the most valuable De Dion of any type (three or four wheels) ever sold at public auction.
Thanks in large part to the excellent inventory that attracted big crowds and enthusiastic bidding, total overall sales at the 2025 Las Vegas motorcycle auction reached $27.2 million, which eclipsed the event’s own previous record by almost $1.5 million and set a new world record as the highest total ever achieved at a motorcycle auction. January 2025 goes down as a big month in Mecum Auctions history with nearly $255 million in sales between Las Vegas 2025 and its World’s Largest Collector Car Auction® held Jan. 7-19 in Kissimmee, Florida.
The top motorcycle sales at the Las Vegas 2025 auction included:
1915 Cyclone V-Twin (Lot S106.2) at $1,320,000
1938 Crocker Twin (Lot S108.2) at $880,000
1913 Henderson Four (Lot S130) at $352,000
1914 Minneapolis Single (Lot S131.1) at $264,000
1974 Ducati 750SS (Lot F199) at $198,000
1928 Indian Ace (Lot F163) at $192,500
1925 Henderson Deluxe (Lot F164) at $187,000
1929 Indian Model 401 Four (Lot F245) at $184,250
1915 Williams Clady (Lot S144) at $170,500
1898 De Dion-Bouton Tricycle (Lot S123) at $165,000
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