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AUTOMOTIVE WHEEEL - CAFE RACERS THE BOOK VERSION OF TON UP STURGIS COOLS, The home page of Motorbooks now lists the book I've recently finished with photographer Michael Lichter, now called 'Café Racers: Speed, Style, and Ton Up Culture'. The cover will apparently feature Yoshi Kosaka's original-paint Rickman Triumph Bonneville. Looks like you'll be able to pre-order from Amazon and Motorbooks themselves...and when it's in print, I'll offer direct sales via TheVintagent for signed copies. Stay tuned!
Here's the Motorbooks blurb:
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| 'Cafe Racers' cover by Michael Lichter, of Yoshi Kosaka's Rickman Triumph Bonneville... |
Here's the Motorbooks blurb:
"A photographic chronology of some of the fastest, most stylish, and most individualized bikes in motorcycling history. Originally used as a slur against riders who used hopped-up motorcycles to travel from one transport café to another, “café racer” describes a bike genre that first became popular in 1960s British rocker subculture [sic; this is not what is explained in the book -pd'o]—although the motorcycles were also common in Italy, France, and other European countries. The rebellious rock-and-roll counterculture is what first inspired these fast, personalized, and distinctive bikes, with their owners often racing down public roads in excess of 100 miles per hour (“ton up,” in British slang), leading to their public branding as “ton-up boys.” Café Racers traces café racer motorcycles from their origins in the mid-twentieth century all the way into modern times, where the style has made a recent comeback in North America and Europe alike, through the museum-quality portraiture of top motorcycle photographer Michael Lichter and the text of motorcycle culture expert Paul d’Orléans. Chronologically illustrated with fascinating historical photography, the book travels through the numerous ever-morphing and unique eras of these nimble, lean, light, and head-turning machines. Café Racers visually celebrates a motorcycle riding culture as complex as the vast array of bikes within it."
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