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Verlag: Motorbooks Intl, 1996
ISBN 10: 0760301743ISBN 13: 9780760301746
Anbieter: West Cove UK, Wellington, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. Very slight tan to page edges. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> There was no pedigreed equivalent of the Norton Manx, Yamaha TZ, Harley XR-750, or MV Agusta. Yet for five straight decades, Tri- umphs excelled in all forms of American motorcycle sport. From 1938 to 1979, Edward Turner's original Speed Twin and its descendants won virtually every major U.S. event worth winning, while scoring countless victories in Amateur, Novice, and Sportsman competi- tion. And along the way, they held the outright World Motorcycle Speed Record for 15 straight years. The inherent greatness of Triumphs as racing machines was in their humble production-line heritage, their broad tuning potential, and their versatility. These were motorcycles built in quantity, to a price, and designed for general use. There wasn't an exotic among them. Even the relatively few purpose-built racing mod- els-the Grand Prix, the close-pitch-fin 500-cc production racers of the late 1950s, and the TT Special-were not inordinately better racing bikes than what Joe Customer could b.