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Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion | 
 enlarge | Author: Mick Walker
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 123542
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0801885302
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9780801885303
ASIN: 0801885302
Publication Date: August 23, 2006
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Product Description
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 & Wolfmueller 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.
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 Very nice book, especially for the price. December 29, 2008
Webhead (Mississippi, USA)
I got this book as a Christmas gift for my dad who is a motorcycle enthusiast. It's very nice. It has lots of historical data about all types of motorcycles. The best part by far is the pictures. Very, very nice pictures from all eras of the motorcycle spanning many different styles. The pictures are high quality and all of the color pictures are quite pleasing to the eyes.
A great book for any motorcycle fan.
It's an oversized, definitive guide to motorbike design October 6, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're either a motorcycle enthusiast or a librarian catering to such, make it a point to consider MOTORCYCLE: EVOLUTION, DESIGN, PASSION. It's an oversized, definitive guide to motorbike design and goes beyond the usual showcase of bikes to tap into the wellspring of knowledge and life experience of motorcycle racer and historian Mike Walker. Motorcycle history and evolution are covered in a particularly notable set of vintage photos and historical review, making for a unique and valuable collection addition.
Passion. March 7, 2007
Stephen Thoemmes (AZ, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Why are some folks passionate about motorcycles? Hell, I don't know. Maybe because they're exciting, sleek, powerful, open air, sexy, unique, not for the everyman, thrilling, sweat producing, demanding, resonant, and just so attractive. We need more books like this so others may be tempted to be 'just looking, honey'
Mr. Ed's Motorcycles January 11, 2007
Edmund F. Fleck (Vacaville, California)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book , a must have for all historians or collectors. I highly recommend this book to all.
 Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion January 11, 2007
Jan Kristian Jensen
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Many nice examples of motorcycling inventions. Fine selection of pictures, covering examples of major breakthroughs in designing motorcycles. In my opinion the book lacks a little more dephs in the individual sections. Overall an ok buy for the price for the one who loves motorcycling.
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