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Roger Goldammer’s ExperiMental for sale

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 11/26/2007

in Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Racing

Roger Goldammer's Experimental 250cc racer

Roger Goldammer's ExperiMental, the Discovery Biker Build Off bike is for sale. It's powered by a 250cc liquid cooled 2 stroke super kart engine with tandem cylinders and 2 crankshafts geared together. It's a pretty impressive piece of engineering. The show featured his bike running against Matt Hotch who built his Vincent powered Vinnie. Roger won with a 128mph pass. Not bad for a 250! The bike is priced at $150,000.

Link: Goldammer Cycle Works

{ 14 comments… add yours below ... }

Bryce 11.26.07 at 7:09 pm: Now there is a high dollar bike that I can lust after.
JC 11.26.07 at 9:15 pm: Wish I hadn’t missed that episode, nice bike and raced against a Vincent!?! What more could you ask for in a show!
GAMBLER 11.26.07 at 11:04 pm: loved this bike, saw it up close at the artistery in iron show – looks better up close

but GD! 150K? come on.

how many Desmosedici’s would that buy?
hoyt 11.27.07 at 1:18 am: about 2 Desmosedici’s.

almost 12 Yamaha R1’s

15,000 sandwiches

or 2 well-done, one-off custom cars (chopped, lowered, channeled, etc.) with quality interior and sounds.

I love the Leo front-end.
PeteP 11.27.07 at 9:03 am: Those are some expensive sammiches!
Erik 11.27.07 at 12:36 pm: I can think of several things that I could better spend $150k on. Seems a bit on the extremely crazy side for a project bike.
coho 11.27.07 at 12:46 pm: $150K? In dollars?

Must be a waterfront bike. What kind of watch do you get?
taxman 11.27.07 at 2:01 pm: how difficult would it be to imitate this project bike? it would be nice to see more small displacement bikes in the spotlight.
Mark L. 11.27.07 at 8:55 pm: I don’t know about anyone else, but $ 72,000 buys me a Ducati Desmosedeci GP replica that will probably do 200+ MPH, and side by side with this bike, guess which bike will have the crowd around it?

Yes, the detail work is good, but $ 150K for a “tiddler?”
Mark L. 11.27.07 at 8:56 pm: PS- before anyone “flames” me, I know a “Tiddler” is technically a 125cc, not a 250cc.
aaron 11.28.07 at 5:13 am: “$72,000 buys me a Ducati Desmosedeci GP replica that will probably do 200+ MPH, and side by side with this bike, guess which bike will have the crowd around it?”

…depends where you park it, I suppose. with something like 1300 Desmosedecis confirmed so far, it won’t be too long before 2 get parked at the same starbucks. I also expect to see one on the ducati stand at one of the bike shows this year, as will a large number of bike freaks. what are the odds of getting a chance to gander at this thing parked on the street?

yes, the ducati is a better bike. but it’s likely that by 2009 or 2010 a stock gixxer or fireblade will outperform it – for less than a fifth the cost!

to each their own… if I had that kind of money I’d want one of each – after I had a NR750 and a britten in the garage already.
chappy 11.28.07 at 9:21 am: I like a lot of the stuff he does but except for the front suspension I have always felt this bike was a mess. Its proportions are just too wonky.
chappy 11.28.07 at 9:22 am: I do admire his thinking out of the box though because he could have just done another Harley powered custom.
Sean 11.28.07 at 1:30 pm: I like it, we need more small capacity motorcycles in this world. This thing looks long, lean, and fast, and that’s how I like it. Pity it’s 2 stroke though, I’m more of a v-twin 4 stroke kind of a guy.