The Honda Story: Road and Racing Motorcycles from 1948 to the Present Day

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When Soichiro Honda began recycling small war-surplus generator engines by attaching them to bicycles, few people could have predicted how his company would grow to become the premier motorcycle manufacturer in the world.

Through a combination of innovative engineering and remarkable business acumen, Honda is one of the success stories of our time.

Soon dominating the race tracks and the marketplace, Honda provided cheap reliable transportation and made motorcycles socially acceptable. The Honda Story is the definitive history of Honda motorcycles, providing a technical analysis of all the important road and racing models, while also looking behind the scenes at the people that made Honda what it is today.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Mick Doohan
• Introduction and acknowledgements
• A dream fulfilled
• Honda enters, Honda wins: racing in the Sixties
• A new order: the air-cooled four-cylinder
• More kings of motorcycles
• New horizons
• Grand Prix return: four-strokes to two-strokes (1979-1991)
• V-four victory
• Liquid-cooled inline-four domination: (1980s and 1990s)
• Doohan OK: two-stroke Grand Prix domination (1992-2001)
• New-generation V-twins
• Performance first

About the Author

Ian Fallon, author of 20 books on motorcycles, is one of the world's leading motorcycle historians. He's written books on BMW, Ducati, and Kawasaki motorcycles, among others.

The Honda Story: Road and Racing Motorcycles from 1948 to the Present Day