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    New motorcycle book: "Classics - Great Motorcycles and People"

    Geoff Osborne and I have just published a new book about classic bikes called "Classics - Great Motorcycles and People." We've been working on it for four years.

    www.apexbikes.com I hope some of you will be interested in a great book and this is also a perfect Christmas present (hint hint).

    It's $55 plus postage ( $6.50 in NZ) for 150 pages of motorcycling goodness.

    It’s a high quality publication featuring 10 bikes. There are loads of studio-shot photos of each bike and the words go into detail about the bike, what marque it's from and its place in history. I undertook detailed research before I wrote it.
    The bikes featured are:
    • Graeme Crosby’s Suzuki XR69 – a rare works example.
    • Yamaha TZ750 – is this the greatest Grand Prix motorcycle of all time? This is the bike restored by Al Wilton, who is well known on the site as malcy25.
    • Ivan Miller’s Suzuki RN400 – a multiple championship winner and one of fewer than 30 works models built.
    • From Ken McIntosh’s famous workshop, the mighty Manx Norton, Egli Vincent and Jawa 500 – all showing the engineering excellence that made this small NZ company world famous.
    • Ginger Molloy’s first Bultaco TSS125 – featuring a detailed interview with Molloy about his experiences racing on the Continent in the 60’s.
    • Russell Burling’s CZ360 twin port - the ultra rare CZ model that changed the motocross world.
    • John Nicholson’s Triumph TR5 and Yamaha DT1 - both created new directions in sport motorcycling, two decades apart.

    Classics has in-depth interviews with motorcycling greats including: Graeme Crosby, John Boote,
    Ginger Molloy, Ivan Miller, Peter Ploen and Stu Avant.

    It also features passionate and talented enthusiasts : Ken McIntosh, Alistair Wilton, Russell Burling and John Nicholson.

    Here's the cover:

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    This is relevant to my interests.
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    Looks great mate!

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    Thanks Crasher, it's fantastic to have it finished after four years.

    Just wanted to let people know that it is only available from the website, it won't be in shops this side of Christmas.

    We had a great review from Michael Esdaile in Kiwi Rider mag, who said:

    Kiwi Rider’s long-term photographer extraordinaire Geoff Osborne has collaborated with Shane Kelly on a brilliant antidote to the ‘Christmas motorcyclists’ victimisation’ described above.

    All you have to do is drop some not so subtle hints (to daughters or nieces) and leave this review laying around.

    Shane Kelly has gone way past the ‘once over lightly’ approach and dived in deep. Consequently, there is examination of each motorcycle represented and its provenance in 154 pages of nicely laid out text and images.

    So prompt the whanau, goad if necessary, and order them to get you a copy of this wonderful treasure for Christmas.

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    This book is now also available from Motomail on College Hill, Auckland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bender View Post
    This book is now also available from Motomail on College Hill, Auckland.
    Sweet. Good excuse to go do some browsing.
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    I thought I'd throw up a couple of the opening spreads for a couple of chapters.

    This will give you a taste of what the book is all about.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bender View Post
    I thought I'd throw up a couple of the opening spreads for a couple of chapters.

    This will give you a taste of what the book is all about.


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    When will you start shipping?
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    I paid for one this week. Hopefully soon-ish

    Looking forward to it in my annual Christmas to New Year reading binge.
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    Couldn't delete this post so I've changed it. Just we issue that is sorted out.

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    really nice book, probably worth more than the asking price. Im well pleased with it
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    Mine arrived last week. I've done nothing more than read the foreword and flicked through looking at the pictures. I was wearing a bib so no drool got on the pages.

    This is a quality book. Great format, pictures are brilliant, what I have read of the words part has been excellent.

    Great for the motorcycle obsessive in your life.
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    Thanks to all the guys who have bought the book - it's going very well and the feedback has been excellent. Some buyers have come back and bought extra books to use as Christmas presents coz they were so impressed. It's just amazing to get feedback like that.

    Just thought I'd put this up as an example of another chapter - dealing with the heritage of the Norton Manx 500.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bender View Post
    Thanks to all the guys who have bought the book - it's going very well and the feedback has been excellent. Some buyers have come back and bought extra books to use as Christmas presents coz they were so impressed. It's just amazing to get feedback like that.

    Just thought I'd put this up as an example of another chapter - dealing with the heritage of the Norton Manx 500.

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    is it just a picture book of some mototcycles?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bender View Post
    • Yamaha TZ750 – is this the greatest Grand Prix motorcycle of all time? This is the bike restored by Al Wilton, who is well known on the site as malcy25.
    • Ivan Miller’s Suzuki RN400 – a multiple championship winner and one of fewer than 30 works models built.
    A small point to some but the TZ750 was never a Grand Prix bike or should I buy your book and learn something new?

    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    is it just a picture book of some mototcycles?
    The RN400 alone would be worth the cover price.

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