Motorcycles By Make - Books

By: Rod Burris . Description In 1876 Johannes Gutgemann, a nineteen-year-old German, arrived in Birmingham to start a new life. After working in the bicycle industry for a number of years, Goodman, as he had by then become known, took over Isaac Taylor...

By: Ian Falloon .  Publication's Highlights Full description of the model's development • Analysis of the 750 Desmo round case engine • A look at the 750 SS prototypes • Racing history that led to the creation of the myth...

By: Colin Mackellar . Description For many, the miracle of the post-war Japanese economic recovery was epitomized by the incredible fifteen years between 1960 and 1975 that saw the Japanese motorcycle industry sweep aside the established order to...

By: John Rosamond, new book, minor shelfwear There is no more famous motorcycle than the Triumph Bonneville, the Bonnie, "the best motorcycle in the world," and the Meriden factory producing this icon was a personal Mecca to fans of the marque...

By: Timothy Remus . 2nd hand book in very good condition It started with the Speed Twin in 1938 and went on until 1983. During that time the Triumph Motorcycle Company produced everything from singles to triples, but mostly they produced vertical twins...

By: Michael Lichter, Peter Fonda . In 1938, J. C. "Pappy" Hoel hosted a half-mile dirt track race in the sleepy Black Hills town of Sturgis, South Dakota. Nine riders participated in the race and had so much fun they decided to make the event an annual...

By: Phil West . Yamaha's RD35OLC of the early to mid-'80s grabbed the hearts of a generation of youth like nothing before. With more than a nod in the direction of Yamaha's dominant TZ250 and 350 racers, the LC was not only the first liquid-cooled (hence...

By: Roy Bacon . The subject of this book is perhaps the most ambitious of any so far in the Osprey Collector's Library. Its scope is to cover the postwar Villiers-powered motorcycle but it is in fact wider than that; it includes all the British 'look...

By: Roy Bacon . - ASuthorised Third Edition of 1995 Classic !! The 350, 500, 650, 750 Twins & Trident The living legend that never died In modem times, with the well-established recognition that the Japanese motorcycle now has alongside the...

By: Steve Wilson . The Triumph Bonneville has been one of motorcycling's most enduring Great British icons. The name comes from the glaring salt flats of Utah where a streamlined, twin-cylinder, twin-carburettor 650 Triumph captured the World Speed...

By: Gary Pinchin . was a revolutionary concept when released in 1985. Rather than being a road bike that could be adapted for racing, the GSX-R750 owed its development to the track. With its air-assisted oil-cooled engine and state of the art...

By: Marc Cook . Suzuki GSX-R series, introduced amid great fanfare and carrying the company's highest hopes in 1985, is synonymous with performance and has become one of the most evocative marques in motorcycling. Without question, the GSX-R turned sport...