German Motorcycles, Road & Racing Bikes by Mick Walker

Germany, once the mightiest motorcycling nation. Mick Walker's book is the definitive English language history of this country's two-wheel achievements.

Walker reveals the triumphs and the disasters behind the great marques. BMW, Adler, NSU, Kreidler, DKW and the pantheon of smaller, but no less innovative, companies who once dominated the racing circuits and the showrooms of the world.

Today, Japan has assumed Germany's motorcycling mantle. Undoubtedly the factory teams from the Orient were a threat, but Walker makes an overwhelming case that the German 'economic miracle' was an even greater force that the motorcycle manufacturers could not turn aside.

GERMAN MOTORCYCLES brings into three dimentions the characters of the riders and the engineers. The trackside sages are uniquely captured by Walker's sense of personality and period.

Hardcover, 320 pages.

ISBN 0-85045-759-0