Big British Bikes of the 50s & 60s (Hardcover)

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Big British Bikes of the 50s and 60s (Hardcover)

In this book veteran motorcycle writer Steve Wilson reviews the top of the line bikes of all these manufactures, 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 this 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.

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