Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion - Tapa dura

Charts the design and engineering developments that shaped the modern motorcycles... even the mechanically maladroit can enjoy the copious images.

A worthy addition to anyone's moto library.

Completely brilliant... one of the best books I've ever read on the evolution of motorcycles.

If you're either a motorcycle enthusiast or a librarian catering to such, make it a point to consider Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion.

Lavishly produced.

A 'picture book' with a great many excellent photographs... These photos alone make the book worth its price.

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.