The Art and Science of Motor Cycle Road Racing

by Peter Clifford

Book Overview

Tells all about the art & science of Motor cycle road racing. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0905138244
• ISBN13: 9780905138244
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Hazleton Publishing
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Motor Cycle Racing History

This book was published in 1982 and covers road racing Gran Prix bikes of the seventies and early eighties. The book covers in detail all the technical aspects of setting up a road racing bike and the various racing engines of that time. The physics discussed still apply today and can help you make mods on your sport bike to handle better. This book will not make you a faster rider;the only one that will is Mike Hailwood's "The Art of Motorcycle Racing" For those of us riding sport bikes during that time it reminds us how special the GP bikes were compared to today's super sport racing in the US.

valuable reading

Sure this book was written in the seventies. But a liter of water still weights a kilo and the circumference is still 2 pi R.. Many of the sport bike available to 16 year old's these days could out perform some of the top GP bikes of the seventies. Some folks that own these bikes might even know how to ride them, but do they understand them? This book leads you through the ins and outs of the engineering of the motorcycle. This book is a valuable addition to the gear-head's library, get it while you can. The internet has a wealth of information but rarely in the form this book takes, or so authoritative.