Neil Peart’s 30th Anniversary Tour BMW GS Going Up For Auction

Neil Peart is known best for his drumming in Rush, but the real fans out there know that motorcycles are just as synonymous with him - namely one in particular.

In 1997, Neil and his wife, Jacqueline, were devastated when their only child, 19-year-old Selena, was killed in a car accident in Canada. Less than one year later, Peart would also lose his wife, Jacqueline, after a battle with cancer.

Faced with losing the two people he loved the most within a year, Peart told bandmates Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee that he would be retiring from the band he'd toured the world with for nearly 25 years. It would appear that it was the end of the band.

Fresh into retirement, Peart set out to grieve on his BMW GS, riding 55,000 miles across Canada, the US, and Central America anonymously thanks to a helmet.

It was this trip that brought him the peace that would allow himself to remarry, and eventually rejoin Rush.

After passing away in 2020 from a quiet battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, the band would only play one more time - at the tribute concert for Foo Fighter's Taylor Hawkins.

Now, Neil's 2004 BMW R 1200GS, surely purchased after riding the wheels off his previous one, is up for auction. This one's mile's aren't specified, but you can imagine how many miles it'd have being that Peart rode the bike from tour stop to tour stop on the band's 30th-Anniversary tour.

Included with the purchase of the bike are two includes a pair of R 40 tour drumsticks and an R 40 keychain.

The bike is worth $6,000-$7,000 on the non-celebrity market, but being the history and celebrity ownership of this particular bike, it's expected to sell for $40,000-$50,000, according to Mecum, who will be aucitoning the bike.