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Item: Classic German Racing MotorCycles - Mick Walker. Publisher: OSPREY, 1991. First Edition

German motorcycle manufacturers have always used competition as a certain method of improving their machines and market penetration. The author describes the famous as well as the more obscure characters, motorcycles and marques which battled to project Germany - West and East - to the forefront of the field.

Germany gave the world the internal combustion engine. Even before the turn of the century numerous companies within the boundaries of the newly unified Reich had harnessed it to purpose-designed two-wheel frames. By the First World War Germany had a booming motorcycle industry that captured enormous export markets.

Until the Japanese dislodged them, the Germans dominated motorcycle sport, technical innovation and world record-breaking. Walker recalls the excitement and the unexpected incidents which transformed the shape of the motorcycle as we know it today.

The quest for competition-proven design was critical to Adler, BMW (solo and sidecar), Horex, DKW, Kreidler, Maico, NSU, Simson and many others. 

Mick Walker chronicles both the fate of the high-volume manufacturers and the lonely geniuses. With stunning photographs of German motorcycles that led the campaign for competition's highest honours.

Publication year: 1991. 

Book size:  270 x 200mm.

Number of pages: 192 pages (excluding covers).

Condition: Believed never read, or if it has been, possibly only used as a reference book, and dry stored away from UV/sunlight. Please see the pictures which show its condition.

Colour or black/white: Black and white. Extensively illustrated with photos of various machines/marques. 

Language: English.

Price: £25.00

Postage: £5.00. We normally use Royal Mail second class post, sent recorded delivery, or UPS or Evri/Hermes (tracked). UK & ROI bidders only please. 

I will aim to package the book for protection on its journey, and hopefully avoid any postie damage being caused. If you have any specific posting instructions please advise at time of purchase/end of bidding. 

Questions: I will be happy to answer simple queries on any books.

Returns: Please check the photos and details given and respect that I cannot realistically accept returns because you didn't do your research in to what I’m selling.

Other items: I have a nice collection of motorcycle related books I am currently listing - please see my 'other items' if interested. These are books I've personally bought over the years, having had an interest in motorcycling - particularly trials & off-road motorcycle sport - since I was a teenager.

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