Honda Motorcycle Books - History, Types and Construction

Honda Enthusiasts Guide - Motorcycles 1959-1985

A guide that is designed to aid the non-professional motorcycle collector decide whether or not to buy and restore Honda motorcycles produced between 1959 and 1985.
For each of these models, author Doug Mitchel provides four to six paragraphs describing the bike in general terms including difference and similarities between the model being discussed and other similar models.

In addition, bullet points for each model will include the following information:
- cost to acquire the project;
- value when finished;
- which bikes/models should not be restored due to declining value;
- and where to find the frame and engine numbers.

This new book also includes what to look for when checking the condition of items like the paint and decals, chrome, seat, rubber parts, and suspension.
A general section at the back of the book will offer the reader help deciding where to buy classic bikes, where to get parts, who to call for help, and which parts of the restoration should be farmed out to experts with specific skills.

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Classic Honda Motorcycles - Identification Guide to the Collectable Models 1958-1990

This guide provides an overview of Honda motorcycles produced from 1958 through 1990, including iconic models such as the CB77 Super Hawk, CB92 Benly, Dream, CB750 and many others.

Based on the "Illustrated Buyer's Guide to Classic Honda Motorcycles", this revised encyclopedic guide offers more than 400 additional photos - one for every single collectable Honda built!

Enthusiasts will find a bounty of useful and interesting information about which bikes are likely to suit an individual rider's needs, which models are most collectible and how to find parts for rare Honda motorcycles.
The book also offers general and mechanical evaluations of every model along with detailed specifications, riding impressions of select Honda models, and other useful tidbits.

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Honda V4 - The Complete Four-Stroke Story

The complete story of the legendary Honda V4 motorcycles and the four-stroke engine design that gave them the name.

Including full production histories, comprehensive specification details and over 250 colour illustrations, the book covers the following:
- Design and development of the first Honda V4, the oval piston NR500, and the VF road models from 1982-1988
- The iconic sport touring bikes, the VFR750, VFR800 and VFR1200F
- The worldwide racing success for Honda Racing Corporation's RC30
- The 1990 Pan European/ST1100, with its longitudinal V4 engine, and the 2002 ST1300
- Honda V4s in MotoGP
- Details of the 2014 VFR800 and CTX1300 cruiser
- Owners' experiences and insight from those who worked in the industry.

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Honda RC30 (1988-1992) - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Honda RC30 motorcycles from the years 1988-1992. Describes the Honda VFR750R and Roy Gildea's RC30.

• The 27 articles, taken from contemporary British and American motorcycle magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.

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Honda ST1100 / ST1300 Pan European (1989-2002) - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Honda ST1100 and ST1300 Pan European models from the years 1989-2002.

• The articles, taken from contemporary British and American motorcycle magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.
• Offers also advice for the purchase of a pre-owned Honda Pan European.

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The Honda Valkyrie

Honda's Valkyrie/F6C burst onto the motorcycle scene in the mid-1990s, completely changing the way Cruisers looked and performed.
Honda's history with horizontally opposed engines in motorcycles dates back to the mid-1970s and the Valkyrie's fully chromed flat-six-cylinder engine continued this trend with a 'Hot-Rod' version. Its 'Classic American' styling and aggressive sounding clean-flow through exhaust system made the Valkyrie/F6C an instant hit with both motorcycle press and public.
Offering three different models of the original GL1500 Valkyrie, Honda dominated the Cruiser market, winning numerous awards along the way.

In this book, Peter Rakestrow looks at the development and detailed history of the GL1500 Valkyrie/F6C from 1991, including the NRX1800 Valkyrie Rune of 2004, a concept motorcycle that became reality, to the 2014 GL1800 Gold Wing Valkyrie/F6C.
Covering detailed changes of year by model, including specification sheets, this is the first book to cover the full story of a motorcycle that has become a legend in its own lifetime.

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Motos Honda

Honda Motorcycles is a journey through five decades, starting from the 1970s and arriving at the present period, from the CB750 Four, pioneer of modern motorcycling, to the most current models offered by the Japanese giant.

Forty models have been selected from a much larger production because they represent, each in their own way, an important stage in the technological and stylistic evolution of the different periods concerned.

These key players in motorcycling pleasure are described in chronological order of their appearance on the European and French scene. Each model is placed in its historical context and situated in relation to its reference segment in order to better measure its impact on the market.

A complete technical sheet, each time, the richly illustrated pages devoted to all these legendary motorcycles that have made successive generations dream and continue to fascinate them.

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Honda : de la CB 750 aux V-4 - 40 ans en endurance

In September 1969, the Honda CB750 won a resounding victory at the reorganized Bol d'Or in Montlhéry. This was the starting point of a new epic for motorcycle endurance racing, where the Honda factory made very different machines triumph, with four or two cylinders, in line or V.
This book, which tells the story of Honda in endurance racing, traces forty years of competition. It is a tribute to all the riders, technicians or preparers who have built the epic of modern endurance, those who are linked to Honda but also their opponents, without whom the most beautiful pages of this sport could not have been written.

With more than 300 photos, many of which have never been published before, original accounts from those involved in these eventful 40 years and a compilation of the results of all the races, this work constitutes a reference for the history of motorcycle endurance.

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