Vintage Motorcycle Grand Prix

Name: Vintage Motorcycle Grand Prix
Brand: Independently Published
Availability: OutOfStock
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By Jack Mercer

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Description

From the first reliability trials on dusty Victorian lanes to the shrieking multi-cylinders that echoed through Monza and Spa, Vintage Motorcycle Grand Prix is an immersive chronicle of the sport's formative decades. With a storyteller's cadence and a scholar's precision, the book follows Norton's austere singles, MV Agusta's opera-loud triples, and Ducati's ingenious desmodromic twins as they duel across Europe's most iconic circuits. Each chapter weaves verifiable race data, engineering breakthroughs, and rider testimonies into a flowing narrative-no speculation, no filler-capturing how fragile metallurgy and fearless talent forged motorsport's first superstars.
Readers will taste the castor fumes drifting over Bray Hill, hear the cascade-gear whine of an MV at full tilt, and feel the feather-light steering that made Norton's Featherbed frame legendary. Along the way, modern engineers and MotoGP riders explain how these classics still shape twenty-first-century technology and racing philosophy. Supported by meticulous appendices, glossary, and restoration insights, this is the definitive fact-only tribute to an era when full throttle meant risking everything for a lap record-and winning immortal glory in return.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

250

Release Date:

2025-07-24

Publication Date:

2025-07-24

Publisher:

Independently Published

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1923545701

ISBN13:

9781923545700

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

368 g

Height:

152 cm

Width:

229 cm

Thickness:

14 cm

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