A brilliant assortment of 38 classic motorcycles and a boatload of memorabilia is set to cross the block at Gooding & Company?s Geared Online sale, with most lots selling at no reserve. You?ll find everything from Honda Z50s and Cushmans, to top-tier Ducatis and BMWs in the online-only auction, which starts on Wednesday, May 8, and concludes on Friday, May 17.
While picking favorites is never easy, the following five bikes are undoubtedly the headliners of the Geared Online sale.

1969 Honda CB750
Honda built a crap-ton of Honda CB750s, roughly 445,000 examples of the SOHC 750 and another 110,000 DOHCs afterward, and decent examples can be found on your local classifieds for as little as $2,000. So what does it take to make a CB750 worth roughly 20 times that amount"
Having built their reputation on smaller displacement machines, the CB750 was Honda?s gutsiest move ever when they debuted the model in 1969, and they weren?t sure how it would go over. Honda minimized its investment in production costs by using permanent mold casting, instead of more costly die-casting. While sources disagree on whether the initial run of 7,714 CB750 engines was actually cast using sand, the name stuck, and the value of these early bikes has skyrocketed.

As we all know, the CB750 would go on to be a massive success for Honda, cutting deep into the Brit?s and Italian?s ownership of the big-displacement scene, and establishing the formula for affordable superbikes of the next gen...