Motorcycle Road and Racing Chassis Book
Added on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 by Carole Nash Editor
Motorcycle Road and Racing Chassis Book
This Veloce book charts the history of fifteen of the most innovative chassis building companies in biking, from the 50s to the 90s. Author Keith Noakes has chapters on the key names in bike handling design, from Nico Bakker Bimota, Dresda Autos, Fritz Egli, Harris Performance, Rickman, Segale and many more.
There are plenty of pictures to brighten up this softback and the text is a good mix of technical analysis and a strong narrative tracing the rise (and sometimes fall) of the various companies.
Reading the potted history of companies like Dresda, Harris, Bimota, Rickman etc one fact emerges very quickly; the Japanese bike makers of today would still be struggling to make their bikes handle properly without the expert development and endless hours of fettling on track which many European specialists provided for them, mainly at a very cheap cost.
Fascinating winter reading, especially for anyone considering building or modifying their own project bike.
