Speed at the TT Races - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speed at the TT Races write by David Wright. This book was released on 2017-05-31. Speed at the TT Races available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over 100 years the world's best motorcycle racers have pitted themselves against the gruelling 37-and-threequarter-mile Isle of Man Mountain Course at the annual event known worldwide simply as 'the TT'. The Tourist Trophy meeting - to give its proper name - represents perhaps the greatest challenge that the sport of motorcycle racing can offer. The top names in road racing - Collier, Wood, Duke, Hailwood, Agostini, Hislop, Jefferies, McGuinness, Hutchinson and the Dunlop dynasty - have all considered the pursuit of a Tourist Trophy to be the ultimate goal. From riding the earliest single-cylinder, belt-driven machines with outputs of under 10bhp, to coping with today's sophisticated four-cylinder machines giving well over 200bhp, generations of riders have risked their lives to satisfy the desire to go faster than the next man and to win a TT. In the process they have lifted lap speeds by almost 100mph. Exactly how that huge increase has been achieved is told within these pages, set against the background of the triumphs and the tragedies of the TT history. A comprehensive story of speed at the TT Races, superbly illustrated with over 200 colour photographs and maps.
100 Years of the Isle of Man TT
100 Years of the Isle of Man TT - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 100 Years of the Isle of Man TT write by David Wright. This book was released on 2013-11-30. 100 Years of the Isle of Man TT available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Run over the everyday roads of the Isle of Man for over 100 years, the world-famous Tourist Trophy races have gripped the imaginations of successive generations of motorcyclists. From the earliest days of single-speed, belt-driven machines delivering 5 bhp, to the highly developed projectiles of today offering a fearsome 200 bhp, race fans have thronged the roadside banks and watched in awe as the best racing motorcyclists in the world rode the fastest machines of their day around the twists, turns and climbs of the 374 mile Mountain Course, all in pursuit of a coveted Tourist Trophy. This new updated edition covering the 2007 - 2012 races, reveals the event's colourful history through the high-speed activities of great riders such as the Collier brothers, Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Steve Hislop, Joey Dunlop, John McGuinness and many others. It also looks at the machines and mechanical developments and race organisation, plus the financial rewards and commercial interests; setting them all in the context of the triumphs and tragedies of a great sporting event that has seen average lap speeds rise from 40 mph to over 130 mph. Written in an easy style, this book reveals the Manx TT's colourful history through its great riders, machines, mechanical developments and race organisation and is superbly illustrated with over 250 colour photographs.
Road Racer
Road Racer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Road Racer write by Michael Dunlop. This book was released on 2017-04-13. Road Racer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael Dunlop has a reputation for being the wild man of TT - often mercurial and outright dangerous. However,Road Racer reveals his emotional, human journey, taking the reader beyond the story of the sporting career of this aggressive and tenacious competitor.
Ever More Speed
Ever More Speed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ever More Speed write by Ray Knight. This book was released on 2013-08-17. Ever More Speed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes us through Ray Knight's incredible 36 year motorcycle career from his short circuit debut in 1958 to endurance races, high speed trial and his TT race win. Follow his highs and lows in this behind-the-scene personal narrative that sheds light on the real life of a TT racer.
Built for Speed
Built for Speed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Built for Speed write by John McGuinness. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Built for Speed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Go on the ride of your life with the racing legend himself **with a thrilling NEW CHAPTER on John’s dramatic 2017 crash** ‘Then I was there myself, just another face in the crowd, watching the bikes fly by. The smells, the noise and the speed were all there for me to experience. It was like a massive injection in my head and it just blew my mind. I knew within seconds that I was going to be a TT racer. I didn’t know how or what I was going to have to do to achieve this, and my dad wasn’t going to be keen. Everyone around me was aware of the dangers, but from that moment I knew I had to do it.’ John McGuinness is one of the all-time giants of road racing, with a huge host of victories to his name. But his easy humour and down-to-earth attitude off the bike have always kept people guessing: what’s the truth about the man inside the helmet, that has kept him at the top of such a sport for over 20 years? His autobiography tells the whole story, from his humble beginnings in Morecambe and getting his first bike at the age of 3, to working as a bricklayer and cockle fisherman before deciding to follow his dream, and finally to his many victories in the most dangerous sporting event on the planet. He tells of what it takes to be a champion in such an exacting sport, and to keep winning even though all logic tells you to stop – and when so many of your fellow racers are paying the ultimate price for doing it. This thrilling autobiography gets into the head of the man who stares death in the face, and doesn’t even flinch.
