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Big British Bikes of the 50s and 60s: Thunder on the Rocker Road by Steve Wilson (Hardcover, 2015)

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Big British Bikes of the 50s and 60s. by Steve Wilson, Gary Wilson. Short Title BIG BRITISH BIKES OF THE 50S &. He contributes monthly to Real Classic and Classic Car Mart magazines.Garry Stuart has been professionally photographing motorcycles for 20 years, and his work has been published in books and magazines on motorcycles worldwide.

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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.

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Herridge & Sons LTD
ISBN-13
9781906133603
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209745318

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Book Title
Big British Bikes of the 50s and 60s: Thunder on the Rocker Road
Author
Steve Wilson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Motorcycles
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
152 Pages

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270mm
Item Width
210mm

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Steve Wilson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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