Well, it appears you gentlemen are unaware that there were in fact MORE than one of these machines manufactured.
You see, though this is unfortunately the last remaining example of such, in total there were THREE of these motorbikes made, and they ALL were purchased by members of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!!!
Uh huh! I kid you NOT!
One was purchased by the stalwart Alan Quatermain, one by that champion of disarmament, Captain Nemo, and the last one by that ever so hard to read gent, the Invisible Man!
Now, the example which you see above was at one time the property of Mr. Quatermain.
The second and third examples, which as I mentioned are now unfortunately lost to posterity, were at one time owned and ridden by Captain Nemo(the second in production, and the ONLY one which possessed the capability to also act as a submersible boat), and then the third and final example being the only one which also possessed the ability to become(yes, you might have guessed this here) completely invisible to the naked eye, which by the way has always caused much heated debate amongst many a collector of vintage motorbikes about IF in fact the third and final example has indeed become "lost to posterity" OR if in fact it is still out there somewhere but nobody since 1939 has been able to actually see it!
(oh, and btw...IF you're per chance wondering what might have became of the second example, well, it was reportedly lost off the coast of Mysterious Island in the year 1942 and after a German U-boat had mistakenly mistook it for a very attractive potential breeding mate and had become, lets say, "a "little over-amorous in its pursuits", at ironically enough, the depth of 20 thousand leagues under the sea!)
