"The first thing we did was
to buy the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook " Ewan McGregor, The Long
Way Round
Every red-blooded
motorcyclist
dreams of making the Big Trip – this comprehensive manual will make
that dream a reality. Timbuktu to Kathmandu or Patagonia to Mongolia,
whether you're planning your own Big Trip or just enjoy reading about
other people's adventures, this book is guaranteed to illuminate,
entertain and, above all, inspire.
Comprehensive guide only £12.99
Jeremy
McGrath Wide Open: A Life In Supercross Jeremy
McGrath is
an unlikely champion who became a legend in Supercross, and helped
bring
the sport out of the backyard and into your living room With a flair
and
personality all his own, he dominated the track like no one had before,
proved you could win with both style and substance, and raised the bar
on what any single rider could achieve From Jeremy's
first
entry and initiation into Supercross to his ultimate rise, Wide Open
gives
fans a stadium view of his life, on and off the racetrack There are
great on-track
battles with the likes of Jeff Emig, Jeff Stanton, and Ricky
Carmichael;
Jeremy's professional dealings with the American Motocross Association;
overseas competitions; prizewinning purses; and the personal struggle
to
get to the top and stay there despite injury, controversy, and the
passage
of time Each chapter
also
includes tips for anyone who wants to become a Supercross champion in
their
own right, so that the torch may pass to the next great generation Read the
story of
Jeremy McGrath, the most successful rider in the history of Supercross.
In "Wide Open," follow Jeremy's life from his first race, to his
ultimate
rise, both on and off the track. The book includes black and white and
full color photos. Each chapter also includes tips for anyone who wants
to become a Supercross champion. 297 pages, hardback. £19.99
Ten Days in the Dirt
The Spectacle of Off-Road Motorcycling
Features Stefan Everts at
the ISDE,
Ricky Carmichael at Glen Helen Raceway, Chad Reed at the Anaheim
Supercross,
Destry Abbott at the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix, Jonny Campbell ast the
24
hours of Glen Helen, Mike Kiedrowski at the Big Buck GMCC, Kerry
Petersen
at the Great American Hill Climb, Dick Burleson adventure riding in
N.Ontario,
Geoff Aaron at the Trial de Espana,
David Paluzzi at the NME
mini GP.
Well worth buying - for
the hill
climb and trials pics alone
160 page full colour
hardback and
only £12.99 plus post.
Motocross Racers
30 years
of Legendary Dirt Bikes (Ray Ryan)
Covers the key bikes of the
last
3 decades:
from the 1960s, Les Archer's
Manx
Norton, Rickman Metisse, Cheney BSA Goldie, CZ Twin-port 250/360, 65
BSA
Victor GP, Husky late 60s 4 speeders & 67 Suzuki TM250.
From the 70s: 69 Hodaka 100,
73
Honda CR250M, Bultaco Pursang 360 Mk7, Suzi RH250, 74 CCM, 74 Yam
YZ360B,
75 Husky 360CR Mikkola rep, 75 CZ Falta, 76 Puch MC250, 77-79 Yam
HL500,
Lackey's Honda RC450 78, 78-80 CR250R, 78-80 Yam OW40, Yam OW51.
From the 1980's: O'Mara's
1980 Mugen
125W1, 1980 Suzuki RM250 & 450T, 1980 YZ465G, 81 Kawa SR500, 81
Maico
MC490 Mega two, 82-83 CR480R, 83 Husky 510, 83-85 Kawa SR500 &
Ward's
85 SR250 & 92 KX250.
And from the current era:
2001 Yam
YZ250F, 02 Honda CRF450R & the 03 KTM 525SX
Full story and colour
plate of each
bike with some archive photos too.
Paperback, 210 x 267mm,
160pp 150
colour and 50 black & white illustrations £19.99 RRP
Merlin review: Its
in my collection
already! Superb photography & an honest appraisal of each bike make
this book a gem, only spoilt by not being a hardback
Bultaco Pursang the Story, 88
page
softcover with fold out mainly colour covers. Story of the famous
Bultaco
Pursang motocross bikes.
Development history,
production
catalogue and colour plates of each model, £17.50
See also Bultaco
Sherpa-T the
Story scroll down page....
Dakar the Challenge of
the
Desert (Dot & Jim Jones) all you ever wanted to know about
the Dakar Rally in colour....£19.99
MX The Way of the
Motocrosser
(Racer-X staff) Covers - the Evolution of the sport, profiles on the 14
giants of motocross & an essay on the privateer.
large colour hardback, 160
pages...........£19.95
Jamie Dobb: A
Season in
the life of a Motocross World Champ
aims to give an insight into
the
dedication, pain, glory and heartache of being a professional off-road
racer in one of the world’s most exciting motorcycle disciplines.
The story uses each GP as
a chapter
and explores themes originating from the races to reveal highlights,
low
points and various anecdotes of Dobb’s 16 year career competing at the
very top of the Motocross and Supercross tree, including a four year
spell
spent living and competing in the huge American money spinning MX/SX
scene.
The book also charts
Dobb’s historic
Championship winning season in 2001..........£14.99
Merlin review: I'm
halfway
through this book & have to say its one of the best MX rider's
stories,
well written with heaps of observations, anecdotes & insights on
the
Pro Motocrossers life....recommended
New This is Supermoto
- all
you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask .........about
Supermoto!
covers street & racing : Video £14.99 DVD £16.99
WORLD 250CC
MOTOCROSS REVIEW
2002
Available for the first time
on
DVD!
Huge jumps, towering table
tops,
crunching landings and mud-blasting mayhem are all a feature of World
Motocross.
The 250cc championship is undoubtedly the premier class with riders
competing
on some of the toughest courses imaginable. Now you can join them in
this
thrilling official season review!
Reigning world champion
Mickael
Pichon faced stiff competition from old rivals Pit Beirer and Josh
Coppins.
The Frenchman began the tournament favourite and after his opeining
victory,
he never looked back. Eleven wins from twelve races saw the Corona
Suzuki
rider storm to the world title in a display of motocross mastery. At
the
final round in Russia, Pichon made the podium to record his ninth
successive
win, beating the all-time record set by Joel Smets of Belgium, and
writing
his name into motocross history.
Motocross competition at
this level
never ceases to amaze with high-flying action and painful crashes. A
range
of camera angles, including some unbelievable on-bike footage and
post-race
interviews from every round give you an awesome insight into action
that
goes unseen in the stands.
Take the best seat in the
house
for the finest motocross action!
DVD extras: Extended post
race interviews
from every round. 184 mins DVD £19.99 Video £14.99
WORLD 250CC
MOTOCROSS REVIEW
2003 DVD
£19.99 Video £14.99 due Oct 03
HEAVEN & HELL
ON EARTH
DVDIn the beginning there was dirt...
Britain’s rawest talent
explodes
onto the freestyle and race scenes. Shot in the UK and in the USA where
the Brits road trip with California's best and trade hits together at
prime
riding locations.
Starring: UK Riders - Jamie
Dobb,
Gary Taylor, Justin Morris, Paul Edmonson, Chris Brock, Jamie Squib.
USA Riders - Kris Rourke,
Chuck
Carothers, Tyler Evans, Ronnie Faisst, Seth Enslow, Tim O'Brien, Greg
Garrison,
Beau Bamburg. Plus other hot freestyle riders from the UK and USA.
Check out these exclusive
DVD features!
Interview with Chris Brock
Biographical profiles on key
riders.
Cutting edge soundtrack featured in full.
70 min DVD £16.99 60
min video
£14.99
Mann of his Time
(Youngblood)
The Dick Mann story
America has never produced a
more
accomplished and versatile professional motorcycle racer. Dick Mann
held
a position in the prestigious top ten in the American Motorcyclist
Association
Grand National Championship for 16 years, was the first man in history
to win every category of AMA Grand National competition, was America’s
team captain at the Trans-Atlantic Match Races in Great Britain in
1971,
was twice AMA Grand National Champion, won the Daytona 200 twice, won
his
class at the first AMA professional motocross held in America, and
earned
a bronze medal by completing the International Six Days Trial. He
competed
against Bobby Hill and Bill Tuman at the beginning of his professional
racing career, and against Kenny Roberts, Torsten Hallman, and Brad
Lackey
toward the end.
While his performance on
the race
track alone is enough to establish Mann as one of the greatest
motorcycle
racers in history, his accomplishments do not end there. As a
representative
elected by his peers, Mann pioneered race track safety and influenced
major
political changes within the American Motorcyclist Association. He
raced
during a period of major transition in the motorcycle sport, and
influenced
many of its changes. He is an inventor, a fabricator, and an
accomplished
motorcycle frame designer, and in recent years has become one of the
foremost
leaders in the vintage motorcycle racing movement, serving for the past
13 years on the board of trustees of the American Historic Racing
Motorcycle
Association. p/b £14.99
Wheelyin' with the King
(Doug
Domokos & Len Weed) 1980 book, only a few copies left, how to
wheelie,
build a bike & how to wheelie a Kawasaki Z1300. Techniques &
more
142 page softcover...£10.99 Pro Motocross &
Off-Road
Motorcycle Riding Techniques (Donnie Bales with Gary Semics) New
edition
largely in colour. Riding gear, bike set-up, terrain, body position,
braking,
acceleration, cornering, jumps, ruts, whoops, off-road (trail)
obstacles,
passing, starts, practice, adapting to different bikes, strategy, &
four strokes all covered. Includes Gary Semics' absolute techniques of
Motocross.
208 page softcover
£16.99
Dirt Rider’s Motocross
Riding
Techniques -
Emap’s Dirt Rider magazine
publishes
monthly one-page riding technique features. Emap magazines survey their
readers every month,
and the survey results show
that
bike tests rank first and riding techniques second. Dirt Rider presents
these tip features by showing a wellknown
pro rider going step-by-step
through
a difficult obstacle. This book features the last five years of these
motocross
riding techniques in one volume.
Misleading title as the book
cover
lots of off-road (enduro/trail) techniques too.
Some Bike set-up info too.
softback , 270 x 210mm,
128pp 400
black & white illustrations
£17.99 BOOK NO. M2315 Now
in stock
Freestyle Motocross -
Jump Tricks
from the Pros (Garth Milan) "Warning - Freestyle
motocross
is an extremely dangerous and sometimes fatal sport. All the riders
pictured
in this book are professionals using proper protective gear under
controlled
conditions. This book should not and does not serve as an instructional
manual, but is an explanation of how riders perform insane freestyle
motocross
moves. Attempting to duplicate any of the maneuvers may be hazardous
and/or
fatal and is not recommended. Readers are cautioned that individual
abilities,
motorcycles, terrain, jumps, and riding conditions differ, and due to
these
unlimited factors beyond the control of the authors and riders quoted
in
this book, liability is expressly disclaimed. Do not attempt any
maneuvers,
stunts, or techniques that are beyond your capabilities"......so it
says
here..Full colour work on the Freestyle MX scene, step by step photos
of
tricks such as the Hart Attack, Nac-Nac, Superman, Cordova & more.
Softcover, 128 pages ...£14.99
Freestyle Motocross II
Air Sickness,More
jump tricks from the Pros(Garth Milan)
Chapters on Bike Prep, Rider
Bios,
Plus 14 free style jumps explained with many colour pics - such as the
Indian Air Bar Hop with Ronnie Faisst , The Back Flip with Carey Hart
&
The Whipped Double Nac Nac (is that an ice cream?) with Mike Jones.
128 page full colour
softback.
Buy one & when the
neighbours
ask what you do with the bike every weekend - whip it out!
........£13.99 pounds
Supercross
(Bonello) softcover,
excellent full colour photography, now in
stock.............................................£9.95
Motocross and Off-Road
Motorcycle
Performance Handbook (EricGorr) NEW third edition now here -
(different
cover from above)
Take your bike to the max!
Build
a factory race replica or maximize your stock motocross or Off road
bike
with expert techniques from tuner & columnist Eric Gorr. Maintain,
modify and setup each compenent of your machine, including everything
from
getting more useable power from the engine to keeping it on the ground
with
suspension tuning and
modification.
Prepare for race day,setup a shop,buy a used
bike,and learn the common
flaws
associated with dirt bikes since 1985.160 pps,
200 b&w
ill,........................................£16.99
Motocross Techniques,
Tactics
& Training (Brad Lackey & Len Weed) 1982
Motocross instructional book
- still
good. covers history, mental attitude,
equipment, track tuning,
physical
training, riding skills, starts, throttle,
brakes, jumps, terrain,
lines &more..................................£10.99
Roughriders Scrambling in the sixties
plus Three in Europe (DVD)Another double
bill of nostalgia from the archives, this time dating back to the late
60s and when big 'thumpers' still ruled the roost and two-strokes were
emerging but not taken seriously! In 'The Roughriders', Jeff
Smith and Arthur Lampkin on works BSAs take on the likes of Rolf
Tibblin and Bill Nilsson at several classic venues including Namur,
Sweden and Hawestone Park, UK. Then, in 'Three in Europe' we
join John Banks, Vic Eastwood, Dave Nicoll and Keith Hickman on the
championship trail in the late summer of '69, a long way from home.
Riding the works BSAs, they were up against formidable opposition
including Roger de Coster and Bengt Aberg. Also features motocross
action from the Luxembourg, French and Swiss GPs; sadly, this was the
end of an era of British motocross GP winners on British machinery. DVD £14.99
On Any Sunday
The all
time classic bike sport film features Steve McQueen & the
stars
of dirt track, desert racing, motocross, trials, hill climbing,
roadracing,
Daytona , Malcolm Smith, Mert Lawill & many more, our top selling Video......................£12.99
On Any Sunday -
the original now on DVD (region 2 Europe only) £14.99
On Any Sunday triple DVD set
£39.99
Now available for the first
time,
and only on DVD, the greatest trilogy of films ever created
on the sport of
motorcycling. To
commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the motion
picture that captured the
essence
of an entire sport as no film had done before, this
unique DVD Box Set presents
all
the thrills, the spills, the men and machines that
create the incredible
excitement
of every Sunday.
Discover the men who ride,
then
and now. Rediscover the Academy Award®-
nominated motion picture On
Any
Sunday, then thrill again as Bruce Brown Films
goes to the vault and brings
forth
breath-taking never-before-seen footage created for
the original as they revisit
the
"Who's Who" of championship riders, discovering what
drives men to risk it all
atop a
machine going at incredible speeds.
Includes one copy each
DVD: - On
Any Sunday - On Any Sunday Revisited - On Any Sunday Motocross Malcom
&
More.
Unique DVD exclusives
include interviews
with Bruce Brown, Dana Brown and
Malcom Smith, profiles of
Championship
riders, plus photo scrapbook memories
from Bruce Brown and the
riders.
Three films total. 230 minutes running time. £39.99
On Any Sunday 2
1980s
sequel with Roberts, Lackey, Hannah, Schreiber & Penhall at play
&
work, Racing,supercross & speedway video....£14.99...NEW
DVD...£14.99
BULTACO
NEW Bultaco
Sherpa T
- The Story
80 page softcover with fold
out
mainly colour covers. Story of the famous Bultaco Sherpa trials bikes.
Development history,
production
catalogue and colour plates of each model, £14.99
See also Bultaco
Pursang the Story
£17.50
Observed Trials (Bernie
Schreiber
& Len Weed) Fresh stocks of the highly sought after book
Observed
Trials (Bernie Schreiber & Len Weed) have landed.
This 1983 book
features loads
of tips & pictures of aces from around the world. Twin shocks
bikes are pictured - remember SWM & Bultaco? 192 pages, loads of
pics
& championship tables to 1983 and is without doubt the best
coaching
book ever printed........As before these are not in new condition,
covers
have some small marks & the books suffer from being
softcovers
& in storage for 20 years or so. If in doubt check what they
go for on ebay .
Price is £16.99.
(UK
post £2.50) .a few more in stock
at 12/10/06
Trials Training
Techniques with Ryan Young undoubtedly the best training DVD
ever! £33.99
Just in: Advanced
Trials Training
Techniques with Ryan Young. Real advanced trials techniques -
new DVD £33.99
So this is
Yorkshire! 1950s & 60s Scott Allan Jeffries trials etc
£16.99
Some Re-issues onto DVD: Six from
Scotland 1950s & 60s SSDT £16.99
Colley - Non Stop
at work
& play with Steve Colley - follow Steve on a trip to Spain, visting
the Gas Gas factory, riding an indoor trial , training with Jordi &
lots
more VIDEO............................................£12.99
World Outdoor Trials
Review 2002
DVD
Available on DVD for the
first time
ever!
It's not speed, it's a
battle between
rider and terrain. The impossible happens.
With a range of innovative
courses,
and a host of up-and-coming competitors, the World Outdoor Trials
Championship
gets stronger every year. Reigning world champion Dougie Lampkin is
always
one step ahead. The man from Yorkshire has single-handedly pushed the
parameters
of trials bike riding and, in 2002, he really let it rip!
Gunning for his sixth
outdoor trials
championship. Lampkin cut an imposing figure on his Montesa Honda.
Standing
in his way was a field of top-class competitors including Albert
Cabestany,
Takahisa Fujinami, Adam Raga and fellow Brit Steve Colley. The champion
dominated proceedings with an awesome display of power and control, his
closest challenge coming from Honda team mate Fujinami. At the final
round
of the season in Motegi, an animated Japanese crowd saw Lampkin retain
his world crown in style.
Don't miss a beat as the
whole story
of his historic season is told through a range of camera angles,
informative
commentary and insightful interviews. With high quality action from
every
round, this fantastic review features all the thrills and spills from
another
eventful championship! 95 mins video £14.99
110 mins DVD .......£16.99 World Outdoor Trials
Review
2004 DVD £16.99
Video £14.99 in stock World Outdoor Trials
Review
2003 DVD £16.99
Video £14.99 in stock
Six from the Scottish
6 colour
films from 1952, 1953, 1959 incs. the scooters!, 1963, 1969 SSDT, 130
mins,
original
soundtracks.....video..£16.99 NEW
on DVD at £16.99
Extreme Trials
with Steve
Colley VIDEO.......................................£10.99
This is Advanced
Motorcycle Trials
Steve Colley demos & explains everything expected at World
Championship
trials, excellent!VIDEO.........................£10.99
This is Motorcycle
Trials
- wanna do trials? buy this first! Covers everything you need to know
about
trials in one entertaining video. Steve Colley & Sammy Miller cover
basic to intermediate riding, from schoolboy to greybeard, includes
on-bike
camera too! 55
mins
Video................................................................£10.99
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