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Sportbike Suspension Tuning
by Andrew Trevitt
from David Bull Publishing,U.S.
Sportbike suspension systems offer an unmatched variety of adjustments, but understanding how those adjustments work, and how to combine them to tailor your motorcycle to your riding style can be as challenging as riding well. That's why many riders never try to make the most of their bike's high-tech suspension simply because they don't know where to start or are afraid of making their bike handle worse rather than better.
Now, in the first book that specifically addresses sportbike suspension systems, Andrew Trevitt, senior editor of Sport Rider magazine and a former roadracer, guides you through the process of setting up your bike's suspension to suit your riding style. This book covers the basics setting static sag for your weight as well as more subtle and advanced adjustments, such as how to optimize rear-end squat. A comprehensive discussion on chassis geometry, suspension technology, and the many interactions among adjustments helps demystify suspension tuning. Andrew also explains how to analyze various handling symptoms and make adjustments to correct them. Plus, he offers specific setup techniques for both the street and the track.
You will be amazed by how much better your bike will feel after its suspension is correctly set up, and by how much more confident your riding will be with the improved handling. Sportbike Suspension Tuning will give you the necessary skills to experience the difference.
100 Years of Harley Davidson
by Willie G. Davidson
from Bulfinch
Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion
by Mick Walker
from The Johns Hopkins University Press
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 & Wolfmüller 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.
Hells Angels Motorcycle Club
from Merrell
Photographer Andrew Shaylor was given unique access, over several years, to the secret world of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. He set out to assemble a truthful depiction of this much misunderstood group, and the result is a remarkable collection of photographs. Now available in paperback for the first time, Shaylor's powerfully honest portraits show the diversity of the club's members, while images of important HAMC events give fascinating insights into a club that has remained closed to outsiders... until now. Over 300 stunning photographs - including new images appearing for the first time in this edition - reveal the rich diversity of the HAMC. It features HAMC events, members' motorcycles, clubhouses, over 100 incisive portraits and a multitude of details that uniquely define HAMC culture. It contains a specially commissioned foreword by Sonny Barger, internationally well-known and respected member of the HAMC.
BMW Motorcycles
by Darwin Holmstrom
from Motorbooks
The entire history of the BMW motorcycle production, from the original R32 of 1932, through the war years and into the 21st century, is covered in this in-depth look. Particular attention is given to the groundbreaking motorcycles BMW produced in the 1970s. Those include the R90S and the R100RS -- the first mass-produced motorcycle to come equipped with a full, frame-mounted fairing -- and the innovative and popular motorcycles BMW offers today, including the exotic R1200C cruiser and the K1200LT luxury, touring bike. Both of which proved so popular they sent Honda back to the drawing board with its mighty Gold Wing.
Vespa: 1946-2006: 60 Years of the Vespa
by Giorgio Sarti
from Motorbooks
Now a venerable icon of Italian style, the internationally known quintessential scooter - the Vespa - was once a two-wheeled revolution, offering mobility to everyone. Today it has come to symbolize scootering status, style, and freedom. As Vespa reaches its 60s without showing a wrinkle, this book celebrates its decades of incomparable spirit. In glowing images and words, the book shows Vespa in its many guises—as the two-wheeled vehicle of the post-war economic boom; as the symbol of the forward-charging ideas of the 1960s; appearing in romantic films such as Roman Holiday; and promoted in delirious ads that claimed, “Whoever Vespas, eats apples.” Decades of period ads and famous calendars are included, as well as technical and production information on every model ever built, including rare prototypes and variants. Each model is detailed in over 30 categories, from engine specs to production facts. Filled with stunning color photos and illustrations, the book is itself a stylish tribute to the iconic vehicle it celebrates. Author Giorgio Sarti knows Vespa, and this book is a thorough and thoroughly enchanting tribute to the scooter as it has sped through history, meaning something new to each generation, and in the process making its unique mode of personal transport synonymous with freedom. Officially licensed and includes a foreword from Piaggio Group President Roberto Colaninno.
How to: Advanced Custom Motorcycle Wiring (Custom Builder)
by Jeff Zielinski
from Wolfgang Publications, Inc.
The one job that even the best mechanics avoid is wiring. Those worries are now over with the introduction of this new book from Wolfgang Publications. This book makes wiring-from-scratch, or installing a harness kit, very understandable and non-intimidating, even for the first-time builder. Part of the Avanced Custom Motorcycle Series, this new book uses chapters one and two to cover the basics of DC electricity; as well as batteries, starters and alternators. Chapter three provides detailed schematics and repair information on the factory wiring harness used before and after 1994. Jeff Zielinksi uses the rest of the book to describe the various harness options available to a person building a custom bike, and to show step-by-step how a wiring harness is installed in a custom motorcycle. The new Motorcycle Wiring book answers all the standard questions: Is it better to build a harness form scratch or install a ready-made harness kit? Which kit is best for a particular situation? What's the easiest way to install the harness and route all those wires inside the top tube and the handle bars? Like all Wolfgang books, this one uses 144 pages and over 300 color photos and diagrams to illustrate all the latest products, all the basic circuits, simple and complex wiring schematics, and a complete start-to-finish custom wiring installation.
The one job that even the best mechanics avoid is wiring. This book makes wiring-from-scratch, or installing a harness kit, very understandable and non-intimidating, even for the first-time builder. Chapters one and two to cover the basics of DC electricity; as well as batteries, starters and alternators. Chapter three provides detailed schematics and repair information on the factory wiring harness used before and after 1994. The author uses the rest of the book to describe the various harness options available to a person building a custom bike, and to show step-by-step how a wiring harness is installed in a custom motorcycle. Over 300 color photos and diagrams to illustrate all the latest products, all the basic circuits, simple and complex wiring schematics, and a complete start-to-finish custom wiring installation.
The Ducati Story 4th Edition: Racing and Production models from 1945 to present day
by Ian Falloon
from Haynes Publishing
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of this famous Italian marque, Ian Falloon's authoritative history - updated, expanded and reformatted in full color. It covers every Ducati racing and production motorcycle from the cheap post-war Cucciolo to the 2006 world-beating production Desmosedici.
Bikes of Burden
by Hans Kemp
from Visionary World Ltd.
In Vietnam the motorbike is the main mode of transport, not only for people but for every imaginable and unimaginable product and produce. Without the motorbike the economy would come to a halt. Bikes of Burden shows in 148 stunning, full color photographs how the motorbikes, the drivers and their loads ride around the cities and countryside in acts that defy your wildest imagination.
Complete Harley Davidson: A Model-by-Model History of the American Motorcycle
by Tod Rafferty
from Crestline
Immaculately restored Harley-Davidson motorcycles of every vintage since the first in 1903 up through 1996, including the eras of the Knucklehead, Panhead, Shovelhead and Evolution engines, as well as the military models. Quarter-mile times, top speeds, mileage, original prices and production numbers, plus engine, frame and suspension specs are all provided.
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