Cafe Racers Speed, Style and Ton-Up Culture (Hardcover)

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Experience Café Racer culture through the museum-quality portraiture of Michael Lichter, one of the world’s top motorcycle photographers. Lichter offers a carefully curated collection of performance bikes that features historic examples of café racers from around the world: contemporary bikes commissioned from the world’s top custom bike builders, including Brandon Holstein, Brian Klock, and Bryan Fuller and bikes from the collections of such motorcycle luminaries as David Edwards and Willie G Davidson. Vincent, Triumph, Norton, BSA, Velocette, Royal Enfield, BMW, Ducati, Moto Guzzi, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Yamaha and Victory – all the great brands are covered, as are the iconic models: Gold Star, Manx, Thruxton, Bonneville, Sportster, Dominator. Even the great hybrids, such as Norvin, Triton, Metisse, Rickman, and the rest are in these pages. Fully illustrated, with historical photography complementing Lichter’s stunning modern shots, Café Racers chronicles these nimble, lean, head-turning machines and celebrates a motorcycle culture as complex as the array of bikes within it.

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