Motorcycling In The 50s

Author : Jeff Clew
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845847547
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motorcycling in the 50s written by Jeff Clew and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, a motorcycle bought at the beginning of the 1950s was a first taste of the freedom offered by personal transport. Although postwar austerity was fading, money was still tight and new machines virtually unobtainable, but there were plenty of cheap prewar machines around and an ex-War Department motorcycle could be bought from one of the big city dealers on the never-never; better still it would be sent to your local railway station. Ex-army dispatch riders’ coats and boots would serve to keep the weather at bay as the new motorcyclists explored and enjoyed the quiet roads in a pre-motorway era. The decade would become a Golden Era of motorcycling as manufacturers brought new and excitingly advanced machines to an appreciative audience which had never even heard of a Japanese motorcycle. Motorcycle sport mushroomed in popularity at a time when you actually had to go to the race to see it and helped to reinforce the public’s ever-growing enthusiasm for the motorcycle. the era would also see the arrival of the moped, scooter and bubblecar. For those that were there, Jeff Clew’s insight to motorcycling of the ‘50s will provide a delightful nostalgic journey into the past, while those younger riders who cherish 1950s motorcycles today will discover a whole new dimension to their enjoyment of the machines.

Author : Steve Wilson
Publisher : Herridge & Sons Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781906133603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big British Bikes of the 50s and 60s written by Steve Wilson and published by Herridge & Sons Limited. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and '60s the British motorcycle industry was at its postwar peak, with its large-capacity high-performance bikes in strong demand all over the world. AJS/Matchless, BSA, Norton, Royal Enfield and Triumph were all making 100mph-plus big twins, with the king of them all, at least into the 1950s, being the mighty1000cc Vincents, while among the ton-up singles were the BSA Gold Star and the Velocette Venom and Thruxton. In this book veteran motorcycle writer Steve Wilson reviews the top-of-the-line bikes of all these manufacturers, first giving an introduction to the motorcycling scene in the period, with a particular look at the emergence of the Rockers, the black-leather too-fast-to-live-too-young-to-die bikers who developed a culture all their own, inspired indirectly by Marlon Brando behaving badly on his Triumph Thunderbird in the banned-in-Britain 1953 movie The Wild One. Then the motorcycle makers are dealt with alphabetically, with their big bikes described in detail and their performance, handling, strengths and weaknesses discussed. In addition to a wide selection of archive photographs, specially commissioned colour photography features examples of the outstanding bikes of the period: AMC/Matchless CSR 650 twins and their Norton Atlas-engined 'Hybrid' siblings, BSA A7SS 500, Gold Star singles, AIO Super Rocket and Rocket Gold Star 650 twins, Norton SS 500/600/650 twins, Velocette Venom and Thruxton 500, Royal Enfield Constellation 700 twin, Triumph pre-unit 500 and 650 twins and unit Bonneville 650, and finally the Vincent 1000 vee-twin.

Author : Denis Jenkinson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780946627370
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motorcycle Road Racing written by Denis Jenkinson and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Turbett
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1787116166
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motorcycles & Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 written by Colin Turbett and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and looks at the way in which they were used at home and exported abroad. Chapters cover wartime, models produced, the social character of Soviet era motorcycling, and wide-ranging sport. With planned, rather than market-led, production based around copies of pre-war German BMW and DKW models, the industry churned out hundreds of thousands of utilitarian and rugged machines that were very different from the more fashion-orientated machines produced in the West. These motorcycles went under the place names of the producing factories: Ishevsk, Kovrov, Moskva, Minsk and, of course, the large flat twins produced in Irbit and Kiev under the Ural and Dnepr names. With a strong emphasis on Soviet era illustrations, the book provides an insight into a life based on idealism and ideology that has now passed. Period photographs and images, many of them from private family collections, show Soviet bikes as well as popular imports Jawa from Czechoslovakia, and Pannonia from Hungary.

Author : Fred "Bro" Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Are the Good Old Days: Motorcycle Memories from the 50s, 60s And 70s written by Fred "Bro" Smith and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bob Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great British Motor Cycles of the Fifties written by Bob Currie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bob Currie
Publisher : Bounty Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753727621
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great British Motorcycles written by Bob Currie and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred "Bro" Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734948448
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Are the Good Old Days written by Fred "Bro" Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the Good Old Days is a series of motorcycle recollections written by Fred "Bro" Smith, Wayne Hosaka and Steve Kukla that originally appeared over a number of years in S&S Off Road Magazine. You'll enjoy every memory they share because they'll remind you of dirt bike memories of your own.

Author : Mick Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747811040
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Motorcycles of the 1960s and ’70s written by Mick Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first half of the twentieth century, Great Britain led the world in motorcycle design and production, exporting its products to countries all over the globe. However, by 1960 this once-great industry had fallen into what was to be a terminal decline. During the 1960s and '70s Britain still manufactured a wide range of machines, but a combination of poor management, lack of investment, foreign competition (notably from Japan), and the arrival of the small, affordable car conspired to sound the death knell for most British motorcycles by the end of the 1970s. Mick Walker uses a host of colourful illustrations to explore the models produced by British companies and their foreign competitors, and explains what the industry did to fight its ultimate demise.

Author : Ed Youngblood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884313219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Penton and the Off-Road Motorcycle Revolution written by Ed Youngblood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Penton has spent his life redefining off-road motorcycling. Here Ed Youngblood presents an exhaustive review of the man and his machine, explaining how major political and economic events affected the creation of the off-road motorcycle in the 1960s, the decline of the market during the 1970s, and the rebound that found KTM motorcycles competing successfully against powerful Japanese manufacturers in the 1990s.