If you remember off-road stars like the Rickman brothers' Vic Eastwood, Lew Coffin, and John Avery, then this is a must-have book for your collection. They're big names who brought the thrills and spills of the golden era of motorcycle sport to a whole generation. For the author, it's a personal trip down memory lane, as he was lucky enough to see many of these men and women at the height of their racing careers. Seventeen of the rider profiles in this book originally appeared over a three-year period in the pages of The Classic Motorcycle magazine, but the profile on the Rickman brothers - two of scrambling's true greats - has never been seen in print before. Accompanied by a totally new set of over 100 stunning photographs, this is a book that will evoke fond memories for all who share the author's love of motorcycle sport in a golden age.
Next in the CyclePro series is this follow-up to Freestyle Motocross: Jump Tricks From the Pros. You'll be performing 25 new tricks just as the top freestyle riders Mike Metzger, Travis Pastrana, and Corey Hart, to name a few. Just as the first book, this edition shows each trick in step-by-step or multi-angle photography, with descriptions from the pros. The front of the book features a short, fun profile of the riders and a section describing the bike set-ups preferred by current pros.
This is the story of the beginning of what has become America's #1 dirt sport, when motocross was "imported" into America, first as the "Inter-Am" series in 1968-'69, then as the "Trans-Am" series in 1970. Classic race tracks ranged from the movie backlot at Westlake Village and the arid Carlsbad and Saddleback Park in California to Linnville, Ohio, and Unadilla, New York, and Pepperrell, Massachusetts. The best European riders - Roger Decoster, Jeff Smith, Joel Robert, Torsten Hallman, Bengt Aberg, Arne Kring, Vic Allan, Dave Bickers and others - competed against the brash new American like Gary Bailey, Dick Mann, Marty Tripes, Brad Lackey, Jim Pomeroy, Gary Jones, Rex Stanton, Barry Higgens, Preston Petty and more.
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