David has always had a passion for classic cars, right from an early age, but had always wanted to ride a motorcycle. He left this until the age of 47, when his brother in law passed his test and bought himself a Triumph Thunderbird. That did it. As soon as David sat on Nigel's bike, he decided he would pass his test and buy his own Triumph. This is exactly what he did, but there was one small problem. David picked up his new bike on his 50th birthday, but had missed out on all that valuable experience he should have picked up in his younger years. He'd left it too late. So David decided he needed to get some miles under his belt an took a Harley across America and has never looked back. This is the story of of David's exploits and adventures to gain that experience he so desperately wanted and it has shown that even at his age, in his mid-life crisis, it wasn't too late to learn how to ride a motorbike. This book will appeal to the many motorcycle enthusiasts out there, as well as the more mature person thinking about taking up biking.

Reading a Pete Lyons column is like taking a stroll down the pit lane with your favourite race hero. Pete doesn't pretend to be anything but what he is - a car-crazy guy lucky enough to spend his days following the sport he loves. He grew up on the track, and has covered auto racing since the early 1960s. His pieces couple his enthusiasm for motorsports with clear insight into the factors that make cars and men champions. Whether he's screwing up his chance to learn how to drive fast from Dan Gurney, or taking a lap while precariously wedged into a Can-Am car with Peter Revson at the wheel and at full noise, Lyons picks up on the details that help us understand and appreciate what makes racing great. Fast Lines is a collection of 55 of Pete's columns, Fast Lines, from Vintage Racecar Magazine. The book includes looks at cars and racers from Formula 1, Can-Am, Indycar, and endurance racing, most of them racers who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He also includes glances into the contemporary Mario Andretti, mellowed hardly at age 60, and events like Sebring, Goodwood, and the Monterey Historics.

Two teen-agers back in early day France probably started it all by "borrowing" their Dad's "horseless carriages" and seeing which could go fastest. That was when highly respected doctors were certain that you would die if you moved faster than sixty miles an hour. The human body simply couldn't survive at that speed. Now, racers routinely go two hundred miles an hour, and drag racers go more than three hundred miles an hour in only a thousand feet. Auto racing is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is daring, dangerous, and exciting, and the winners often become millionaires. This book aimed at young adults is full of stories about racing as it describes the progress from the two kids to modern racing. The author has participated as a driver, photographer and journalist for many years, and has written a number of books on the subject.

Rattlesden Productions proudly offers Northwest race fans a chance to relive the excitement of the 2009 season as seen on the pages of Inside Track magazine. 2009 marked the 15th season since the magazine was launched in June of 1994. Motorsports fans throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho, enjoy detailed race reports, excellent photography and intriguing driver features covering stock cars, sprint cars, drag racing, street rods and more. From the major annual events to the local weekly battles, there's something for everyone in Inside Track, and this collection has every issue from the landmark 2009 season included.

Memories of 60-plus years in motorsports, accent primarily on humor

The purpose of this book is not to teach ground school or flight training, but is intended to teach the reader how to shop for these services and, once purchased, how to keep them affordable, efficient and useful. Certified FAA Instructor Timothy O'Connor uses his twenty years of experience with technical subjects and adult training to bring flying to people on a middle-income budget. Learn about the new Sport Pilot Certificate license, Ultralights, Light Sport Aircraft, Experimental Aircraft, How to pass the FAA Exams, the steps involved in learning to fly, getting the best flying lessons, how to choose instructors ( a CFI ) and more on a budget. Special sections on: Gyroplanes, Gyrocopters, Trikes, Fixed Wings, Powered Parachutes ( PPC ), Powered Paragliders ( PPG ), Ultralights, Light Sport Aircraft ( LSA ), Sport Pilot Lessons, Sport Pilot Checkride, Sport Pilot Oral Exam, Sport Pilot Knowledge Test ( Written Exam ), Purchasing and Choosing an aircraft and what to look for when buying a Light Sport used Aircraft such as an Airplane, Gyro, Trike, Fixedwing or PPC. From initial interest through to Check Ride this book will be invaluable to the aspiring pilot including, reducing the cost of flying lessons, maintaining your aircraft, working with the pilot community, avoiding many costly pitfalls, how to cost effectively store and transport your aircraft, optimizing your flight lessons, evaluating your student pilot learning style, evaluating your flight instructor and how to deal with common flight training errors and problems. Even current owners and pilots of E-LSA, S-LSA, Vintage Light Sport Aircraft, Ultralights, Trikes, Airplanes, Gyrocopters, Gyroplanes, Autogyros, and Experimental Rotorcraft and Fixed-Wings will find cost and time saving tips and tricks that will pay for this book many times over.

Golden: An American Odyssey starts in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and ends in southwest Florida. In between, Michael L. Hughes, a wild kid who raced stock cars before he had a driver's license, morphed into an entrepreneur. He founded Hughes Computer Systems, which he later sold to ADP. This is the story that almost didn't happen and of lessons learned along the way as it did happen. The book spans a lifetime that begins prior to World War II and continues into the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Follow the rise and fall of John Hall and his quest to become the King of the Mountain.

Volume 1 of the Cole Coonce drag strip reader. Churned out between races while sitting in a trackside porta-potty, Coonce's collection of incendiary drag strip journalism was written during his days at Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, Full Throttle News and Nitronic Research, between his stints as a guitar player in Braindead Soundmachine and his return to show business as Angelyne's fluffer in Studio City, California. Its 256 pages of ack-ack includes "Viva La Nitro " and "Who's Afraid of Arley Langlo?"

A turn-by-turn driving guide to the Laguna Seca Raceway for the high performance driving enthusiast features illustrations showing the driving line for each corner, track entry, and track exit, and photographs from the driver's perspective of each section of track.

War-torn Great Britain - Stephan Sidlow employs Blower Bentley SM 3912 to rapidly crisscross England to help and to harm her. Present day - Automotive archaeologist Faston Hanks is cajoled into taking on the hunt to find the last missing Blower Bentley. A hunt worth millions of dollars and that might also foil the boldest collector car crime ever.

Make Haste Slowly chronicles the grand prix motorcycle racing career of Canadian Mike Duff, the first North American and only Canadian ever to win a world championship grand prix race. Duff won three GP events, the 1964 250 Belgian GP at Spa Francorchamps, the 1965 125 Dutch GP at Assen The Netherlands and the 1965 250 Finnish GP at Imatra Finland. In 1964 Duff finished 3rd in the 350 world championship riding a private 350 AJS 7R single. In 1965 riding a factory Yamaha RD56 250 twin Duff finished 2nd in the 250 world championship. He never won a world title nor an Isle of Man TT, but he rode some of the most exotic racing machines ever built on race courses throughout the Grand Prix Continental Circus. He rode and conquered the intricacies of the Isle of Man TT and forever instilled its magic in his veins. He accelerated along glamorous racing circuits that are but names in a book to most, and he mixed it with the best of the world's motorcycle racers and often emerged victorious. During the 1960s, when the Japanese manufacturers began their dominance of GP racing, Duff had the best seat in the house to watch the titanic battles for first place between the stars of the time, riders like Mike Hailwood, Phil Read, Jim Redman Giacomo Agostini, Luigi Taveri and Bill Ivy. Share these experiences with the author in minute detail from the perspective of Duff's seat aboard a factory Yamaha RD56 or RA97, a Matchless G50 or AJS 7R, or the legendary AJS Porcupine. A story of courage, disappointment and reward, Make Haste Slowly is a must read for all motorcycle racing fans. Duff has stood alone atop a winner's rostrum in silence to his country's national anthem then raised his arms to the tumultuous cheers of thousands all proclaiming an accomplishment that was singularly his. What four times world champion, New Zealander Hugh Anderson says about Make Haste, SLowly - A tale of human endeavour with a truly unique ending; I truly enjoyed it.

While automobile races had been held in Europe earlier, it was not until after 1900 that organized races were held in the United States. These contests took the form of road races--usually over a series of connected links of the best roads available. The most important of the early races were held on Long Island, New York.

As a result of the efforts of the Savannah Automobile Club, the International Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America was held in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time in November of 1908 and was enormously successful. In 1910 and again in 1911 the most famous drivers and the finest racing cars from all over the world returned to the city for the Grand Prize Race. The 1911 event attracted thousands more who came to witness the famous Vanderbilt Cup Race, the fastest race of this length up to that time (291 miles in 3 hours and 56 minutes).

Julian K. Quattlebaum was among those who lined the Savannah race course for a glimpse of the big Fiats, Loziers, and Mercedes that roared around the turns, across the finish line, and into autoracing history. He has written a new introduction to this edition and has gone through his collection of early photographs of the cars, the drivers, and the races to add to the generous selection of illustrations in the original edition.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Practical Guide to Race Car Data Analysis was written for the amateur and lower-level professional racers who either have a data system in their cars or who may be thinking about installing one but who do not have access to an experienced data engineer. Many of the data systems available today at reasonable prices offer capabilities that only professional race teams could afford just a few years ago. Unfortunately, most of these racers do not know how to use more than a small part of those capabilities. Using real track data, numerous real-world examples, and more than 200 illustrations, the Guide gives them the knowledge and skills they need to select, configure and use their data systems efficiently and effectively. Beginning with a detailed discussion of the things racers need to know about the hardware and software necessary for a an effective data system, the Guide continues with chapters on basic data analysis tools, more sophisticated data analysis tools like x-y plots and math channels, damper potentiometers and the wealth of important data they produce, brake and clutch pressure sensors, and creative use of math channels. The Guide concludes with a comprehensive scheme for analyzing data, examples of the data views used with the scheme, and detailed information on how to create and configure the data views.