McGregor hopes to auction off favourite motorcycle for £21,000
ACTOR Ewan McGregor is selling one of his favourite motorcycles.
The star has put his 2012 Indian Larry Panhead Chopper up for sale at auctioneers Bonhams on January 26 in Las Vegas as part of its motorcycle auction.
The guide price for the motorcycle is £18,000£21,000.
“Every movement has its prime movers, and so it was with ‘Indian Larry’ Desmedt, one of the leading lights of the neo-chopper movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s,” says Bonhams.
“This chopper, running a Harley Panhead-style Pandemonium 88ci motor, was built in 2010 at the reformed Indian Larry Motorcycles. Christened ‘The Machine’ because of its sparse bare-metal beauty, the bike caught the eye of a visitor to the shop, Scottish actor Ewan McGregor.
“Movie fans know McGregor from his roles in 50-plus films, including a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars series and Christian in the musical Moulin Rouge. Motorcyclists are more apt to be impressed by McGregor’s riding résumé, which includes the travel documentaries Long Way Round and Long Way Down, in which he and longtime riding mate Charley Boorman go globetrotting on a couple of BMW adventure-tourers.
“A fan of Moto Guzzis old and new, for the past four years he’s been spokesman for the Italian company. His ever-changing collection of motorcycles is wide-ranging, with everything from track bikes to 1960s classics to customs, so the Indian Larry chopper was a natural fit for McGregor.”
For his last big road trip, McGregor swapped his faithful BMW motorcycle for a Moto Guzzi and has become the face of the oldest motorcycle manufacturer in Europe.