Harley-Davidson Sportster und FXR: Bücher - Geschichte

Harley-Davidson Mythos Sportster - Historie, Modelle, Technik, Umbauten

Seit 1957 wird die kleinste und sportlichste Harley-Davidson gebaut. Mit weit mehr als einer Million verkaufter Maschinen ist sie der erfolgreichste Roadster weltweit. Dabei blieb das Grundkonzept mit luftgekühltem V2, kompakten Abmessungen und vergleichsweise sportlichem Fahrwerk bis heute unverändert.
Zur Legende wurde die Sportster nicht zuletzt durch ihre unzähligen Erfolge im Rennsport: Kein Motorrad hat mehr Titel im Dirt-Track und auf den Speedways Amerikas eingefahren!

Dieses Buch erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte des Mythos Sportster, beleuchtet Technik und Modellvarianten von damals und heute, gibt Tipps für Gebrauchtkauf und Tuning und zeigt mehr als 200 der spektakulärsten Sportster-Umbauten der Welt.

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Aermacchi - Harley-Davidson Motorcycles

Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Geschichte von Aermacchi, einem führenden italienischen Hersteller mit Wurzeln in der Luftfahrt. Das Unternehmen war für Flugzeuge wie den MC72-Weltrekordhalter und Jagdflugzeuge des Zweiten Weltkriegs bekannt, bevor es 1950 mit der Motorradproduktion begann.

Auf der Mailänder Messe 1956 stellte Aermacchi die Chimera vor, ein futuristisches Einzylindermodell mit geschlossenem Karosseriedesign. Ende der 1950er-Jahre entstanden daraus einige der besten italienischen Sport- und Rennmotorräder, darunter die Ala Verde und die Ala d'Oro.

1960 übernahm Harley-Davidson 50 % von Aermacchi, und 1978 wurde das Werk in Varese an Cagiva verkauft. Dieses Buch enthält Beiträge von bedeutenden Aermacchi-Persönlichkeiten, die zusätzliche Authentizität verleihen.

Inhalt des Buches:
- Vor den Motorrädern
- Frühe Motorräder
- Chimera
- Ala Rossa-Ala Verde
- Rennmotorräder mit Nasskupplung
- Transatlantische Partnerschaft
- Offroad-Wettbewerb
- Rennmotorräder mit Trockenkupplung
- Europäische Roadster
- Das Linto-Projekt
- Zweitakt-Rennmotorräder
- Das Ende der Straße
- Die Wiedergeburt des Klassikers
- Index.

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Harley Davidson Sportster (Paperback)

In 1957, The Motor Company, as they call Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee, was in trouble. The big twins were too big, the small two-stroke single was too small, and a surge of imports had taken the sporting market from the under-powered Model K.
It was time for something new and different. It was time for the Sportster.
Never has a motorcycle been more aptly named. The Sportster kept the K's best features, borrowed the improvements of the imports, threw in some homemade hot-rodding, and before you could say Superbike - a term invented to describe the XLCH - the Sportster was making history, setting sales and speed records, and introducing people to the sport of motorcycling and the mystique of Harley-Davidson.
The history is still going on.

This book tells how and why, in sequence, from the circumstances and models that preceded the XL through to the 1200 Evo, with its five speeds and belt drive. On the way, there are in-depth looks at the race-ready XLC that began the Superbike era (and took even the factory by surprise), at the radical Café Racer and super-sport Buell, and at the price-buster XLX that taught the imports the value of the dollar.

Paperback edition.

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Harley-Davidson Sportster 1965-1976 - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio Buch über die Harley-Davidson Sportster Motorräder aus den Jahren 1965-1976. Beschreibt die Harley-Davidson Sportster XLH, DLCH, 833cc, 1000 cm³, DR-750 und XL.

• Die 29 Artikel aus britischen und amerikanischen Motorzeitschriften von damals bieten viele Informationen über Geschichte, Modellwechsel und Techik.
• Auch Fahrimpressionen, Tests, Vergleichstests, technische Daten, usw.

Mehr Info über Brooklands Portfolio Bücher

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Harley-Davidson XR-750 - The Complete History

This is the story of the legendary XR-750 from its development in 1970, when it was created to replace the aging KR. The first XRs used iron cylinder heads and barrels-and were painfully slow. By 1972, the motorcycles were redesigned with aluminum heads and barrels, and the XR-750 took home the trophies.

Found here is the development of the XR-750 with a technical analysis of the complete motorcycle, detailing specifications, modifications, innovations, and aftermarket components.
This is also the story of the men who designed, tuned and raced the XR-750. It was their engineering skill, iron-willed riding and tuning secrets that made the motorcycle a winner.

The book is divided into three parts, the motorcycle's development, the season-by-season race championships, and how the pros make the bikes go-and go fast. More than 300 photos tell the inside story of the XR-750 on the dirt track, the XR-750 and XR-1000 on the street and XRTT on the road-race circuits.

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Harley-Davidson Sportster, son histoire mécanique et humaine

The Sportster represents more than 20% of Harley-Davidson's global production annually. A success that continues for a type of motorcycle that appeared in 1957 with a displacement of 883 cm³ and which still appears in the American manufacturer's range under this displacement, along with the 1 200 cm³ Sportster.
It is now available in different models and its Sportster power unit has also spawned a new breed of motorcycles, young, sporty, with character, fun, and technically modern, the Buell.

If the book deals with the design at the birth of the Sportster, before revealing its developments and presenting its main special models powered by cast iron engines, it is without forgetting to insist that it is from the aluminum engines that it knows its revival and that it multiplies its versions, like the other Harley-Davidsons with Big-Twin engines.

From competition to Sportsters transformed into Choppers, it adapts to all styles and all uses to seduce a very large male clientele, but also female. This Sportster, adored and controversial, remains a special Harley-Davidson that deserves a special tribute, because the lifespan of each Sportster is not a few years, as is generally the case for the majority of motorcycles, but several decades.
Many professionals offer parts to restore, modify, improve and personalize it, which explains its exceptional longevity and its very large number of fans.

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