Motorcycle Road & Racing Chassis: A Modern Review of the Best Indepedents - Softcover

Noakes, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845841301 ISBN 13: 9781845841300

Verlag: Veloce, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Any kind of competition breeds a desire to gain a performance advantage over the opposition, and motorcycle racing is no exception.

Cutting-edge chassis design is a major factor in motorcycle performance, including that of fast road machines. This book explores the most innovative designs of recent years, to show how motorcycle chassis technology has evolved into today's highly-technical forms which use advanced materials and techniques.

This book charts the history of fifteen of the most innovative companies. The companies still thriving today, as well as producing modern machines with a wide range of engine options, are finding considerable business rebuilding and maintaining machines built in the earlier years.

Some of the pioneer builders have become household names to the motorcycle fraternity and those written about in this book include: Bakker, Bimota (Italy), Dresda, Egli (Switzerland), Harris Performance Products (United Kingdom), Hejira racing (United Kingdom), Magni (Italy), Maxton Engineering (United Kingdom), P&M, PDQ, Quasar, Rickman UK (United Kingdom), Colin Seeley Racing (United Kingdom), Segale (Italy) and Spondon Engineering (United Kingdom).

With full specifications for many chassis and extensively illustrated throughout, this book is a must for any motorcycle enthusiast and a valuable reference for the trade.

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Keith Noakes spent almost twenty years employed by Ciba-Geigy, a leading world supplier of raw composite materials. A confirmed motor racing enthusiast, has found the introduction and selling of composite technology to the world's leading teams to be a serious, but enjoyable, business. His close association with these teams led him to establish his own composite company supplying components to Formula One and CART teams. Keith Noakes has had a lifetime love of motorcycles and has owned and restored road racing machines, vintage speedway machines and various off-road examples. Although he no longer rides motorcycles he maintains his love and enthusiasm. A large part of his working life has been involved in composite engineering, working in research and development area for a large company who were one of the earliest suppliers of carbon and other fibres in various forms for structural applications. It was shortly after the introduction of this technology to formula one car racing that it was, unsurprisingly, adopted by some motorcycle designers, particularly the innovators in the independent chassis manufacturing companies. The author's involvement with these designers brought him closer to the cutting edge developments and led to him discovering a wide range of highly appealing machines from the many independent manufacturers. The creativity and innovation of these designers and the success of their machines are what inspired the writing of this book.

Keith Noakes spent almost twenty years employed by Ciba-Geigy, a leading world supplier of raw composite materials. A confirmed motor racing enthusiast, has found the introduction and selling of composite technology to the world's leading teams to be a serious, but enjoyable, business. His close association with these teams led him to establish his own composite company supplying components to Formula One and CART teams. Keith Noakes has had a lifetime love of motorcycles and has owned and restored road racing machines, vintage speedway machines and various off-road examples. Although he no longer rides motorcycles he maintains his love and enthusiasm. A large part of his working life has been involved in composite engineering, working in research and development area for a large company who were one of the earliest suppliers of carbon and other fibres in various forms for structural applications. It was shortly after the introduction of this technology to formula one car racing that it was, unsurprisingly, adopted by some motorcycle designers, particularly the innovators in the independent chassis manufacturing companies. The author's involvement with these designers brought him closer to the cutting edge developments and led to him discovering a wide range of highly appealing machines from the many independent manufacturers. The creativity and innovation of these designers and the success of their machines are what inspired the writing of this book.

Keith Noakes spent almost twenty years employed by Ciba-Geigy, a leading world supplier of raw composite materials. A confirmed motor racing enthusiast, has found the introduction and selling of composite technology to the world's leading teams to be a serious, but enjoyable, business. His close association with these teams led him to establish his own composite company supplying components to Formula One and CART teams. Keith Noakes has had a lifetime love of motorcycles and has owned and restored road racing machines, vintage speedway machines and various off-road examples. Although he no longer rides motorcycles he maintains his love and enthusiasm. A large part of his working life has been involved in composite engineering, working in research and development area for a large company who were one of the earliest suppliers of carbon and other fibres in various forms for structural applications. It was shortly after the introduction of this technology to formula one car racing that it was, unsurprisingly, adopted by some motorcycle designers, particularly the innovators in the independent chassis manufacturing companies. The author's involvement with these designers brought him closer to the cutting edge developments and led to him discovering a wide range of highly appealing machines from the many independent manufacturers. The creativity and innovation of these designers and the success of their machines are what inspired the writing of this book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Veloce
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845841301
• ISBN 13: 9781845841300
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174
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