How To Build A Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle: World's Fastest Panhead: 10 - Brossura

Ball, Keith R.

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ISBN 10: 1929133510 ISBN 13: 9781929133512

Casa editrice: Wolfgang Productions, 2008

Riassunto

How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle documents the construction of "The Worlds Fastest Panhead," conceived and assembled by Keith Ball, former editor or Easyriders magazine and current owner of Bikernet.com, the most popular biker stop on the internet.

Keith walks the reader through all the steps involved in the creation of a true Bonneville Salt Flats motorcycle. From choosing a class to picking an frame, from finding an engine builder to minimizing the aerodynamic drag at 200 miles per hour, Keith explains the how and why of building a Salt Flats motorcycle.

A project of this size is bound to suffer setbacks. Keith Ball uses a personal, narrative style to take the readers on a wild ride, through the ups and downs of building The Worlds Fastest Panhead. Building a Bonneville Salt Flats winner presents a whole series of hurdles. Keith describes each hurdle, and how it was overcome, from determining the best frame dimensions to making the un-streamlined machine as aerodynamic as possible.

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Recensione:

Bonneville salt flats in Utah, USA, have captured the imagination of speedsters for almost as long as there have been motor vehicles to speed in. A cruel, harsh place that can see the highs of one form the despair of another, just surviving the enviroment is hard enough let alone creating a speed record. In How To Build A Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle, Keith Ball recounts the adventures of a team that is at times loosley connected, badly financed but utterly dedicated to getting a Panhead Harley onto the salt and going fast. As with any race team, there are the characters, there are the mistakes, there are the triumphs and the hard work. In his tale about the 5-Ball Racing - of which he is nominally in charge, though throughout the book it's his partner Nyla who calmly seems to hold things together - Ball sets out to show how they got an idea in the back of their minds into metal and onto the salt flats, where they met up with their rider, Valerie Thompson, who'd not even sat on the motorcycle untill it came to Bonneville. From the initial design sketches to the finished bike on the salt, readers will see a blow by blow account of the building and testing of this bike. If you're into speed, bike building or just want to read an account of how a group of truly alternative people live their lives, then this is one for you. --Classic Bike Guide

L'autore:

Keith Ball is quite simply an instiution in the world of custom Harleys and V-Twin motorcycles. For 20 years Keith served as editor of Easyriders magazine, and in that postion came to know all the major and minor motorcyle builders throughout the US and the world. Today, Keith runs bikernet.com, a very biker-friendly web site with features on everything from how-to articles to pin up girls in his "cantina". Longtime rider and builder of custom bikes of his own, Keith has now turned his talents and networking abilities to the construction of The World's Fastest Panhead.

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• Editore: Wolfgang Productions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1929133510
• ISBN 13: 9781929133512
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144