Shooting Star: The Rise & Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry - Hardcover

Aamidor, Abe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550229001 ISBN 13: 9781550229004

Verlag: ECW PR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

For many years the British motorcycle industry was the largest in the world, not counting low-powered mopeds and scooters and the like. After World War II the motorcycle industry was the third largest source of foreign exchange for the United Kingdom after motor cars and Scotch whiskey. Yet by 1975 the industry was essentially dead. What led to the fall of the motorcycle industry in Britain, after virtually defining the country for so long? Shooting Star: The Rise and Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry is the first comprehensive look at the motorcycle industry with a critical look at business and trade practices that led to its demise. The full romance, beauty and excitement of the machines and especially the top racers who rode them is captured here, but it’s all blended for the first time with information about the lesser known businessmen who built the companies and then ran them into the ground, as well as a critical look at some of the engineers and designers who were brilliant and badly flawed at once. The failures of the British motorcycle industry are a painful object lesson for the badly strapped American automobile industry at the present time.

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Abe Aamidor is a university lecturer, a life-long motorcycle enthusiast, and an award-winning journalist. He has been a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, the Indianapolis Star, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and has taught journalism at Indiana University, Georgia Southern University, and Southern Illinois University. He is the author of Chuck Taylor, All Star. He lives in Carmel, Indiana.

Abe Aamidor is an award-winning journalist, author, university lecturer and life-long motorcycle enthusiast. He has been a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Champaign-Urbana (Illinois), News-Gazette, and the Indianapolis Star newspapers, and is the author of Chuck Taylor, All Star (2006). He’ s taught journalism at Southern Illinois University, Georgia Southern University and Indiana University. His first bike was a 1964 Honda Benly 150cc and his best bike was a 1988 Honda Hawk GT 650cc. But his favourite bike by far was a 1966 Velocette Venom Thruxton 500cc which he owned for several years in the early 1970s. He lives in Indiana.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ECW PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1550229001
• ISBN 13: 9781550229004
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 153
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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