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YAMAHA: ALL FACTORY AND ROAD-RACING TWO- STROKES FROM 1955-93 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Colin Mackellar | 192 pages | 15 Mar 2008 | The Crowood Press Ltd | 9781852239206 | English | Ramsbury, United Kingdom Yamaha: All Factory and Road-racing Two-strokes from 1955-93 PDF Book Pre-owned: Lowest price The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. Ducati have been providing RS Racing Specs replicas of their WSBK title winning bikes since and many have potential to go very fast, with podiums on the reach of the fastest riders. Badly written, infantile fairy tales. If i was writing it now, I would be tempted to add Jim Whitham's biography. If you need to astound your friends with your encyclopaedic knowledge of GP results and statistics, this book is a must have. Posted 25 August - An interesting site, but the results only seem to go up to - or did I miss something? That year, Andersson took the title race with Kel Carruthers on the 4-cylinder Benelli factory machine down to the final round of the season and eventually ranked 2nd on the year. Please subscribe or login to view this exclusive content. When I saw it raced, I asked myself how Honda supplied to their customer teams a bike that was constantly beating their own riders Repsol Honda took a single win in and Add links. Condition: New. One of the best biographies I've read is : You don't know the half of it by Aaron Slight. In Czech, go for years of Czech Motorcycle Sport with limited English text - wonderful photos of Jawas, CZ etc For those English readers with limited linguistic skills, all are wonderfully illustrated. Stock Image. Posted 12 June - I find the Scaysbrook stuff disappointing. Also Julian Ryders books are usually good, but obviously not so nostalgic. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Ray Battersby Edited by Sergio, 02 August - I can't say I find the writing as good as I'd hoped. Posted 10 July - Look Posted 11 June - I tend to agree Rhodie, but if it has bugged Jim all these years there may have been a cathartic element in getting it off his chest and into print And , yes Vincent's site is very good! Brand New!. Their last world championship scores where registered in , coincidentally, the last won by a 4-stroke Phil Read in an MV. Back to Julians books, great stuff on WSB racing. However the Bill Ivy book is a million miles better than the Alan Peck book. Contains interviews with key personalities and riders. Internal-expanding dual double leading shoe. Edited by GD66, 11 June - Posted 10 July - Meanwhile, as regulations were changed in the World GP to restrict the number of cylinders and transmission gears on race machines beginning in , the Japanese makers that had been competing with multi-cylinder engines and transmissions with large numbers of gears, began to withdraw from GP competition one after another. At the same time, the company was participating actively in the domestic race scene that had begun to develop from the Mt. Register now! With the completion of Yamaha's first RA41 cc and RD48 cc factory racers in , however, the feedback from their development contributed to the simultaneous development of two new sport models. From an era well before my time as well. Meanwhile I now have an urge to read Whit's autobiography, so I might just be back off to Amazon Community Forum Software by IP. Hardcover Books. Is it available at all? Can anyone point me in the direction of any books that cover pre-war motorcycle racing, perhaps in the way Chris Nixons Racing the Silver Arrows does for cars? His toe curling use of the English language and his phraseology would do a Sun reporter proud. Posted 17 November - Yamaha: All Factory and Road-racing Two-strokes from 1955-93 Writer Yes, Croz the gardener! Readers with the best memory will recall that Randy Mamola did win races in a V3, but it was a works NS, such as the podium regulars handled by Ron Haslam or Raymond Roche. Archived from the original on 21 December But on the positive side it is quite compact and is the only book I have found providing this level of detail. View all copies of this ISBN edition:. The simple and reliable single cylinder British cc air cooled engines were the best incarnation of the Continental Circus ride. He was an early adopter of web-based journalism, working with Motorcycle Online from until , including stints as World Super Bike and Moto GP correspondent. Yamaha Motor Co. Roger Marshall book is good also. Don't miss out! But the most informed fans will also recall that 92 was also the year of the big-bang engines, a big technological evolution started with Honda, allowing smoother power delivery and better tire life, which every works team copied to not stay behind. This item doesn't belong on this page. It is very informative. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Let me start with the yearbooks. Most relevant reviews. Condition: new. Also the Bill Ivy is excellent. That year, Andersson took the title race with Kel Carruthers on the 4-cylinder Benelli factory machine down to the final round of the season and eventually ranked 2nd on the year. Click Many thanks Ton, I didn't know about that. Posted 09 June - I have this book and it's a great read I can't say I find the writing as good as I'd hoped. It also featured race-spec cylinders, cylinder head, carburetor and muffler as standard equipment. Posted 09 June - Top of my list, Jon Ekerolds book, brilliant!! And finally, going off from the Grand Prix. Guess it's just my detail side coming out, as it really bugs me. It's a belter, really captures the time. Nice pics though. Hi Julian. Other classes - 50cm3, 80cm3, cm3, cm3, sidecar - are excluded. Anyway, Kawasaki soon recognized their potential for GP and produced racing versions of it, with improved engine, brakes, suspensions and even fairings. From here you can learn that the top-scoring manufacturer is Honda with GP wins and that Agostini won the most number of cm3 titles 7 of them. Had the pleasure of meeting up with him and Dennis and Angela Ireland and over coffee and the next hour Croz was at his entertaining best. At the same time, Yamaha contributed to the development of road racing around the world by releasing the export model TD-1A completely assembled with cowling and a full set of other race parts. Yamaha Factory racing had withdrawn from the championship over revised competition rules in Even though Yamaha ended its factory race program, it continued to support the remaining privateers in the World GP by selling the new TD-2 production racer as the successor to the TD-1, plus the TR-2 for the cc class. A new Bill Ivy book has just come out by Mick Walker, must get. Yamaha is one of the great names in motorcycle racing with a committment to racing, rather than just building and selling the bikes commercially. Hardcover Education Textbooks. They were not up there mixing with the works Marlboro Yamaha, Rothmans Honda or Pepsi Suzuki, more by lack of equipment than talent, but they formed the backbone of the grid. Hardcover Books. An interesting note by author Kevin Cameron on the lack of alternative to the singles coming from Britan: there was no shortage of projects in the UK for multi cylinder engines, what was lacking were the resources to develop and produce them… 1- Suzuki RG Suzuki RG — home. Other interesting fact is that the GP works Cagiva, in the absence of an available in-house powerplant, used a custom Italian made frame coupled to a TZ engine. Containing so little prose, this review will concentrate on its contents. It was Yamaha who produced the first over-the-counter racing superbike, the TZ whilst also gaining over GP victories to date. But things were far from legendary further down the field. Yamaha: All Factory and Road-racing Two-strokes from 1955-93 Reviews It was the bike to have during those five years, with even satellite riders such as Sete Gibernau, and Marco Melandri having a genuine shot at the title remember the Yamaha only won with Rossi on the handlebars! Register now! Inspired by the works Aprilia RS campaigned by Loris Regianni from onwards, effectively an enlarged that on occasion produced lap-times similar to the s, Honda took a simplified solution the problem. Community Forum Software by IP. If you are interested in the specific seasons, I would particularly recommend the reports and essays in his GP yearbooks mentioned above. It proved very competitive on the track as well, winning competitions like the Malaysia GP, in the hands of a local rider. Wow , thats wonderful news , a great guy , and a great rider. I will be adding details of the books I have at some point Posted 09 July - Edited by ex Rhodie racer, 10 June - You currently have javascript disabled. In the following season, in the absence of the dominant MV Agustas at the Jarama season finale, rider Dave Simmonds gave Kawasaki their first cc race win. Posted 25 June - I have long been looking for books on older bike racing. Section 2 provides the Statistical results for each Class very useful for commentators : Individual results by Rider's Name showing their Position, Race and Year The riders with the most WINS in that class down to those having just one win The riders with the highest number of Successive Wins down to 2 successive wins Other interesting statistics including Wins by Manufacturer and the full list of winners and machine etc for each event such as the Australian GP from to At the very back of the book is a thin, 88 page section headed ' All Classes Rider's Statistics.