Classic motorcycles. Vic Willoughby. 1992.

Classic Motorcycles ranges over 70 years of history, covering both roadsters and racing bikes. Each chapter describes a machine in perspective, recalling the personalities of designers and riders which were often strongly stamped on it, outlining features of technical significance, and surveying racing and production stories - sometimes brief, sometimes stretching over decades.

Among the motorcycles described are the Zenith Graduate which changed the face of early competition events, the Indian vee-twin which won the 1911 TT, and the unorthodox Scotts. The short lives of the highly original ABC flat twin and the Ner-a-car contrast with the extraordinarily long-lived BMW and Harley-Davidson designs and the immortal overhead camshaft Nortons. Refined roadsters  - the Sunbeam Model 90, Matchless Silver Hawk and Brought Superior - set off some of the all-time racing greats Norton, Velocette, Husqvarna Gilera, DKW, AJS, Benelli.