Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion

By Mick Walker

Book Overview

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 Hildebrand & Wolfm ller to present-day manufacturers--Harley Davidson, Ducati, Honda, BMW, Aprilia, and Triumph--Walker sets each model within its historical context and outlines the main technological and stylistic innovations that make each bike unique.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885302
• ISBN13: 9780801885303
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher