Here’s you chance to own a piece of Harley-Davidson racing history. Team Obsolete’s “Goliath,” the XRTT road racer, will be auctioned off in Las Vegas on January 25 at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino. For more information about the auction presented by Bonhams and other bikes included, click here.
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The ex-Vance Breese, factory-assisted and magic from Alan Sputhe
c.1973/1980 Harley-Davidson XRTT 1,200/1,300cc ‘Goliath’ Racing Motorcycle
– 1980 10.554-second quarter mile at 130.24mph (John Ulrich)

– 1980 SCTA Bonneville National MPS-AG class record at 176.615mph

– 1980 AFM series Unlimited Class road racing champion

– 1989 John Cronshaw class lap record at Oulton Park, UK
– 1300cc Sputhe short-stroke, all-aluminum motor, now rebuilt at 1200cc
Goliath, a biblical warrior, stands at about nine feet tall, and is typically characterized as being bigger and stronger than any of his opponents. When, but not why, this motorcycle was named Goliath seems to have been lost in history. A very fitting name for another ‘California hot rod.’

This unique, do-it-all-racing Harley-Davidson was a project started in 1979 by one Vance Breese, racer, of the Redwood City-Menlo Park adjoining neighborhoods just south of San Francisco, a hidden hotbed of engineering and machine shops. He teamed up with Alan Sputhe, engineer and racer, of the Sputhe Engineering Company then in Tujunga, north w...