VOL. 49 ISSUE 29 JULY 24, 2012 P49
BY ALAN CATHCART PHOTOGRAPHY BY KYOICHI NAKAMURA
S
eeing three Crockers together in a West London warehouse that are col- lectively worth close to $1 million is
already fanciful – but the thought of being invited by their trusting but anonymous own- er to actually sling a leg over them, however brief, is the stuff of dreams. Yet that's what I was given the chance to do aboard the bikes coming under the Bonhams hammer at their Quail Lodge sale in California on Au- gust 16 – well, two of the three, at least.
