2011 Book Review: Triumph Bonneville Portrait Of A Legend
James Mann and Mick Duckworth have put together a masterpiece in Triumph Bonneville Portrait of a Legend. Portrait covers the legendary Triumph Bonneville from its 1959 T120 US model to the 2010 Bonneville Sixty with a look at it’s origins in the 1954 Tiger 110. Filled with full color photos and chock full of technical details and differences between the models. I found this to be a great resource for what these bikes used to look like before they got chopped, bobbed and modified through the years.
Haynes Publishing
Hardback, 280 x 230mm, 240 pages, 300 color illustrations
ISBN: 9780857330178
2011 Book Review: Ketchup Soup
Author James Houck delivers up a rollicking good time in Ketchup Soup. James Reichardt from Kansas goes to New Orleans as a young man seeking his fortune. Full of grit and determination, young James does not let the fact that he is a complete idiot get in the way of his plan for success. Along the way James works in advertising, tree removal and dabbles in booze and nutmeg. He also buys a Big Twin motorcycle named Big Lucy and falls in with a gang of 1%’ers despite the fact that he doesn’t know how to ride a bike. In the tradition of Mark Twain, Houck delivers a farce of epic imagination and entertainment.
Published by Cerebral Gangster
Printed in the USA
ISBN 978-1453746387
Copies are available on Amazon, and may be available in the Bikernet shop in the near future.–Wilburn Roach
2011 Video Review: New Blood *** The Story of the KRV5 Tracker
Early in 2005 Roland Sands and Kenny Roberts teamed up for a unique project. Roberts offered up one of his MotoGP KRV5 engines for Sands to build a motorcycle around. One year later Sands delivered the bike at Laguna Seca to Roberts. This is the story of the trials and tribulations of the building of this unusual project. There is the usual chaos and drama, but the deal gets done in an entertaining manner.