A product of the French, the Poirier Voiturette was a tandem-seater design that was a hybrid between a motorcycle and a two-seater sports car. Voiturette roughly translates to ‘cycle-car’, which basically means ‘small motor vehicle’.
This is a XW5 Monoto, powered by a 125cc Ydral engine. This example has just 337 miles and imported into the US from Belgium last year. The bike looks good and the seller says it is “ready to start and run you down the road”, whatever that means. Find this Poirier for sale with a buy-it-now of $5,900 or best offer here on eBay.
Post Sale Update: This Poirier sold for $2,350 after 13 bids on eBay. Quite a discount from the last sale price four years ago! 1-31-2019 Update: Over four years later, this Poirier has been imported to the US and it's now back up for sale in Tipton, Iowa. Considering that…
Last month we saw some great bikes - but did they sell? And if so, for how much? This summary will only include listings from eBay (or other auction sites). I unfortunately have no way of finding out final sale prices of bikes offered on Craigslist/Cycle Trader/Kijiji/etc. With that said,…
Congratulations to RoHorn, who was the first to identify that this front wheel came from a Böhmerland! Böhmerland was a Czechoslovakian firm that built bikes between ’24 and ’39. All of their bikes were of one ‘model’, but with wheelbase options from a 2 seat “Sport” model to the 4…
