Cafe Racers: Speed, Style, and Ton-Up Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760345821 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"the just released hardcover book Cafe Racers, Speed, Style and Ton Up Culture is a must-own if you like the Cafe Racers genre." - CyrilHuzeBlog
J said Cafe Racers: an elegant approach. Most of the time the computer screen seems adequate to explore interests like this. Lots of great photos out there if you look around and these days there aren't a lot of books of this heft and size that you want to commit your space and money to. This one is different. It's an excellent group of talents coming together to make a great book. I . STEPHEN ROBSON said a marque I wasn't aware had contributed a great deal to cafe racer culture or aesthetics. Somewhat disappointing. Many if not most of the bikes featured are HD: a marque I wasn't aware had contributed a great deal to cafe racer culture or aesthetics.. "Great reference book" according to Patrick Lawrence Sullivan. Great reference book! Thanks to Licter's, outstanding (The Best In The Business) photography. If you're interested in the "Cafe" culture, then buy this book! A truly definitive piece of work. A+++
Café Racers visually celebrates a motorcycle riding culture as complex as the vast array of bikes within it.. 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. 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. 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 - although the motorcycles were also common in I