You can now buy a Lewis Hamilton motorbike

By topgear ,

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Lewis Hamilton is, it’s fairly safe to say, a bit handy on four wheels. Any superfan, however, will also know he’s got a penchant for wobbling around on two-wheeled machinery – with a cursory scroll through his pre-race Instagram posts showcasing his capacity for mahoosive burnouts in the pits on a powerful motorbike.

But now, Lewis has his own limited-edition motorbike courtesy of Italian firm MV Augusta. (MV Augusta don’t forget, helped the late, great John Surtees power his way to seven motorbike world titles way back when.)

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It’s called the MV Agusta F4 LH44, and is actually the second limited-edition bike by Lewis: a couple of years ago the two teamed up to create the Brutale Dragster RR Lewis Hamilton LH44. This new bike is even more special, being limited to a production run of 44 units and priced at a slightly eye-watering £53,900. (RM302,400)

The bike is based on the 205bhp F4 RC, garnished here with additional, expensive niceties such as a titanium silencer (to save weight) and a Reparto Corsa control unit to boost power by 7bhp to 212bhp. Lewis went over the whole thing too to make it ‘Maximum Hamilton’.

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As you can see, there’s the same glossy candy apple red as his private jet but accompanied by a pearl white chassis featuring matte black accents and his trademark panther logo. There are new carbon fibre fairings, a racing-style fuel tank cap, an anodised, CNC-machined wheel nut, and exclusive Pirelli Diablo Supercorsa tyres featuring red-striped sidewalls with Lewis’ red ‘LH44’ logo stamped on the side. That smoked windscreen is a first for an MV Augusta and Lewis had to get special permission to spray the normally gold Ohlins mechanically adjustable suspension black. For you bikers, they’re USD NIX 30 TiN-coated forks upfront and TTX 36 shocks at the rear.

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So, prepare to see Lewis spinning up the rear wheel in a pit lane near you soon. It also got us thinking, should other F1 drivers get their own bikes too? We’d love to see a Lance Stroll scooter…