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S&S Cycle Presents Today's Top Custom Bike Builders

S&S Cycle Presents Today's Top Custom Bike Builders
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Author:

Howard Kelly

Photographer:

Michael Lichter

Foreword by:

Jay Leno

Format: Hardcover, 224 Pages
Item: 147145
ISBN: 9780760336038
Publisher: Motorbooks
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Illustrations: 225 color photos
Size: 9.25 x 10.875
Weight: 3.063 lb.
Edition: First
Published: September 24th 2009
DC: AP
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In 1958 George Smith started a small company called S & S Cycle.  His mission:  “To make all bikes go faster.”  Fifty years later, S & S Cycle is everything Smith envisioned.  To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the world’s premiere builder of aftermarket V-twin motorcycle engines and components commissioned custom motorcycles from fifty top builders.  The competition that grew out of this challenge unfolds in the pages of S & S Presents Today's Top Custom Bike Builders, which showcases the splendid bikes built for S & S’s fiftieth anniversary show.  The book, beginning with a brief history of S & S Cycle, features  four-page spreads on each motorcycle, along with profiles of the builders--including Chica, Cory Ness, Paul Cox, Jerry Covington, Jesse Rooke, Redneck Engineering, Arlen Ness, Kim Suter, Brian Klock, Kendall Johnson, Roger Bourget, Rick Fairless, Fred Kodlin, and Paul Teuttel Sr.  With illustrations by master custom-bike photographer Michael Lichter, this is as much a celebration of the custom builder’s art as it is a tribute to S & S Cycle’s accomplishment.

Howard Kelly, former communications manager for S&S Cycle, has been editor at Hot Bike magazine and at Street Chopper magazine and a staff member at Hot Rod Harleys and Motorcyclist magazines. He lives in Onalaska, Wisconsin.         

 

Michael Lichter’s motorcycle photography has been featured in Easyriders magazine for over a quarter of a century. His photos have also appeared in numerous Motorbooks titles, including Indian Larry, Choppers: Heavy Metal Art, Top Chops, Arlen Ness: Godfather of Choppers, Billy Lane Chop Fiction, Harley-Davidson Century, and Sturgis. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. You can see more of his work at www.lichterphoto.com.

 

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“The $40 coffee-table tome has a bit of company history, a foreword by Jay Leno and 223 pages of beautiful photography with profiles on each builder.” – Cycle World

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Foreword: Jay Leno

 

Prologue:

S&S 50th Anniversary Celebration

A party for the history books . . . or history for the party books

 

Introduction:

S&S Cycle History

 

Section I: P-Series Engines

 

Chapter 1

David Anthony:

The Beast

 

Chapter 2

Branko Built

Panvision

 

Chapter 3

Central Coast Cycles

Hulk Bike

 

Chapter 4

“Chica”

 

Chapter 5

Paul Cox 

Sword of Damocles

 

Chapter 6

Departure Bike Works

TLC Forever

 

Chapter 7

HogTech

Swedish Chopper

 

Chapter 8

Krugger Motorcycle Company

Half Day

 

Chapter 9

Cory Ness

Narrow Minded

 

Chapter 10

Trevelen

Socialize