| #1296745 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2006-08-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .94 x8.92 x11.34l,2.77 | File Name: 0801885302 | 224 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very thin. Not up to his earlier work|By Moto Pierre|I have five of Mick Walker's books including three in his series on racing motorcycles from various countries and all are vastly better than this volume. The treatment of each subject covered in this book is superficial, the pictures are predictable and there are not enough to make it a real "coffee table book". As a shallo|From The New Yorker|This illustrated history charts the design and engineering developments that shaped the modern motorcycle. Walker shows how the vehicle's evolution from the steam-powered bicycles of the eight
This is the definitive, comprehensive guide to motorcycle design. Tapping a deep well of knowledge and a lifetime of experience, motorcycle racer and historian Mick Walker sheds light on the evolution of one of the world's ultimate status symbols and style icons―a development owing as much to history, politics, and technology as it does to image, lifestyle, and design. In a survey that ranges from the late nineteenth-century pioneers like Gottlieb Daimler and Hilde...
