This is the definitive, comprehensive guide to motorcycle design.
Tapping a deep well of knowledge and a lifetime of experience,
motorcycle racer and historian Mick Walker sheds light on the evolution
of one of the world's ultimate status symbols and style icons--a
development owing as much to history, politics, and technology as it
does to image, lifestyle, and design. In a survey that ranges from the
late nineteenth-century pioneers like Gottlieb Daimler and Hildebrand &
Wolfmüller to present-day manufacturers--Harley Davidson, Ducati, Honda,
BMW, Aprilia, and Triumph--Walker sets each model within its historical
context and outlines the main technological and stylistic innovations
that make each bike unique.