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Motorcycle Road & Racing Chassis

A Modern Review of the Best Independents

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Author:

Mick Grant

Format: Paperback, 176 Pages

Item: 145976

ISBN: 9781845841300

Publisher: Veloce

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Illustrations: 266 color and b/w photos

Size: 8.0 x 10.0 x .5

Weight: 1.625 lb.

Published: October 15th 2007

DC: AE

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Description The Authors Reviews Reader Reviews

Any kind of competition breeds a desire to gain a performance advantage over the opposition, and motorcycle racing is no exception.

Cutting-edge chassis design is a major factor in motorcycle performance, including that of fast road machines. This book explores the most innovative designs of recent years, to show how motorcycle chassis technology has evolved into today's highly-technical forms which use advanced materials and techniques.

This book charts the history of fifteen of the most innovative companies. The companies still thriving today, as well as producing modern machines with a wide range of engine options, are finding considerable business rebuilding and maintaining machines built in the earlier years.

Some of the pioneer builders have become household names to the motorcycle fraternity and those written about in this book include: Bakker, Bimota (Italy), Dresda, Egli (Switzerland), Harris Performance Products (United Kingdom), Hejira racing (United Kingdom), Magni (Italy), Maxton Engineering (United Kingdom), P&M, PDQ, Quasar, Rickman UK (United Kingdom), Colin Seeley Racing (United Kingdom), Segale (Italy) and Spondon Engineering (United Kingdom).

With full specifications for many chassis and extensively illustrated throughout, this book is a must for any motorcycle enthusiast and a valuable reference for the trade.

Keith Noakes has had a lifetime love of motorcycles and has owned and restored road racing machines, vintage speedway machines and various off-road examples. Although he no longer rides motorcycles he maintains his love and enthusiasm. A large part of his working life has been involved in composite engineering, working in research and development area for a large company who were one of the earliest suppliers of carbon and other fibres in various forms for structural applications. It was shortly after the introduction of this technology to formula one car racing that it was, unsurprisingly, adopted by some motorcycle designers, particularly the innovators in the independent chassis manufacturing companies. The author’s involvement with these designers brought him closer to the cutting edge developments and led to him discovering a wide range of highly appealing machines from the many independent manufacturers. The creativity and innovation of these designers and the success of their machines are what inspired the writing of this book.

insidebikes.com, December 2007
Review by Alistair Walker

This Veloce book charts the history of fifteen of the most innovative chassis building companies in biking, from the 50s to the 90s. Author Keith Noakes has chapters on the key names in bike handling design, from Nico Bakker Bimota, Dresda Autos, Fritz Egli, Harris Performance, Rickman, Segale and many more.

There are plenty of pictures to brighten up this softback and the text is a good mix of technical analysis and a strong narrative tracing the rise (and sometimes fall) of the various companies.

Reading the potted history of companies like Dresda, Harris, Bimota, Rickman etc one fact emerges very quickly; the Japanese bike makers of today would still be struggling to make their bikes handle properly without the expert development and endless hours of fettling on track which many European specialists provided for them, mainly at a very cheap cost.

Fascinating winter reading, especially for anyone considering building or modifying their own project bike.

Rapid Bikes, May 2008
Australian magazine
Circulation: unknown

'Motorcycle Road & Racing Chassis' is an absolute must for any motorcycle or engineering nut with more than half a technical bone in their body. Written by Keith Noakes, it focuses on the independent chassis engineers who have stepped ahead of the game over the last thirty years.

Names like Harris, Bimota, Magni, Sponclon and Bakker all have their designs listed. The book is hard to put down and sends the reader on an engineering journey that may start to get the creative chassis juices flowing ...

Classic Bike Guide, September 2008
UK magazine

Compiled by Keith Noakes and published by Veloce Publishing, it's a softback of some 175 pages, which takes a good look at 15 of the most innovative frame manufacturers. It examines the history and the specifications of the offerings from Spondon, Harris, Dresda, Bimota, Seeley, Bakker, P&M, Rickman, Egli and others both in race and road format. Well illustrated, a fascinating book with a foreword by Mick Grant.
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NZ Motorcycle Trader & News, June 2008
New Zealand magazine

'Motorcycle Road and Racing Chassis' charts the history of 15 of the most innovative chassis-building companies in biking, from the '50s to the '90s. Author Keith Noakes has chapters on the key names in bike handling design, from Nico Bakker, Bimota, Dresda Autos, Fritz Egli, Harris Performance, Rickman Segale and many more. There are plenty of pictures to brighten up this softback and the text is a good mix of technical analysis and a strong narrative tracing the rise (and sometimes fall) of the various companies.
Reading the potted history of companies like Dresda, Harris, Bimota, Rickman etc., one fact emerges very quickly; the Japanese bike makers of today would be struggling to make their bikes handle properly without the expert development and endless hours of fettling on track that many European specialists provided for them, mainly at a very cheap cost. This book is fascinating winter reading, especially for anyone considering building or modifying their own project bike.

"As you read through the well illustrated pages, liberally covered with both period black and white as well as color images, you realise why they are included in this very useful reference work." – interbike.co.uk

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