Harley Davidson

by Roy Bacon

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856485501
• ISBN13: 9781856485500
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: PRC
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 5.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best of Breed.

This book is quite large, in a 9.0" x 12.0" format, in Color: 508 pages. This is the best Harley book I have ever seen, BUT, it was printed and bound in China and bears the initials of the publisher as PRC. I have not been able to locate a new-for-sale copy anywhere since it's introduction in 1999. No book about Harley-Davidson is perfect (i.e. complete), yet this book comes closer to perfect than any others. I hope you will be able to find one for yourself. New or Used.

Nearly 1,000 beautiful full-color pictures!

This is a big (9-inch X 12-inch, over 500 pages) coffee table book, absolutely crammed full of beautiful full-color photographs--nearly 1,000 of them, many of them two-page spreads. It covers not only Harley-Davison's history, in text and photos, but also the different types of their bikes, roadtests, police bikes, military motorcycles, racing, custom bikes (gorgeous photos!) and even a chapter on the Honda, Kawasaki and other "look-a-likes" (the sincerest form of flattery).The text is informative, with specifications, descriptions and road tests on a great many machines, and an excellent history including the period when AMF owned Harley-Davidson, and the machines' quality suffered.All this by an independent writer who has written similar books on other brands of motorcycle, as well--in other words, this is not a puff piece by the factory."To the bandana-wearing 'Hognoscenti,' a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is much more than the sum of its steel, chrome, rubber, plastic and leather parts." --Richard Fleury, co-author.Nearly 40 years ago, I owned a 74-cubic-inch knucklehead Harley with a suicide clutch and tank shift. I remember it fondly, and were it not for my advanced age, I'd buy another one today regardless of the price.I recommend this book highly to any Harley-Davidson enthusiast, for their library. (Yes, many of them are extremely literate.)Joseph "Joe" Pierre,author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance

Nearly 1,000 beautiful full-color pictures!

This is a big (9-inch X 12-inch, over 500 pages) coffee table book, absolutely crammed full of beautiful full-color photographs--nearly 1,000 of them, many of them two-page spreads. It covers not only Harley-Davison's history, in text and photos, but also the different types of their bikes, roadtests, police bikes, military motorcycles, racing, custom bikes (gorgeous photos!) and even a chapter on the Honda, Kawasaki and other "look-a-likes" (the sincerest form of flattery).The text is informative, with specifications, descriptions and road tests on a great many machines, and an excellent history including the period when AMF owned Harley-Davidson, and the machines' quality suffered.All this by an independent writer who has written similar books on other brands of motorcycle, as well--in other words, this is not a puff piece by the factory."To the bandana-wearing 'Hognoscenti,' a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is much more than the sum of its steel, chrome, rubber, plastic and leather parts." --Richard Fleury, co-author.Nearly 40 years ago, I owned a 74-cubic-inch knucklehead Harley with a suicide clutch and tank shift. I remember it fondly, and were it not for my advanced age, I'd buy another one today regardless of the price.I recommend this book highly to any Harley-Davidson enthusiast, for their library. (Yes, many of them are extremely literate.)Joseph "Joe" Pierre,author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance