Not a few people already consider most big bikes as a work of art in their own right, so making one that is a literal work of art is the next obvious step. Right?

Harley Davidson appears to think so, and in their Cosmic Starship, they partnered with the famed rebel cosmic existentialist artist Jack Armstrong to apply yellow-and-red paint over a Harley V-rod and originally sold it at a flat $1 million dollars after much fanfare broadcast all over the world.

If you bought a Cosmic Starship, though, you would want to think twice before parading such prized treasure all over the place.

What to do? You could strip the painted parts and secure it in a vault and replace with regular parts, but that is hardly a wise decision. Art and machine went out together and priced with that combo consideration. Your next best choice is shell out another $16,000 and buy a V-rod that came without that art paint on it. Which brings us to another reality: that artwork is worth $984,000. But when you consider that some of Armstrong’s works go for $3 million, there really is no reason to balk about the added price.