Its a sad fact that there are people out there to whom 85,000 pounds is small change. I would surmise that they may have a few other Vincent HRDs' so a Flash presents itself and they grab it. It will now most likely languish in a private museum or "flash" (sorry) garage somewhere.
Quite true! The John Edgar bike sold to an auto collector and the price of $1.1 million was cheap for him relatively speaking. It is not that bad though, it is the best time to be running them as hard as you can before the next owner retires the bike.
David