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Harley-Davidson Sportster: Sixty Years [Audiobook] download free by Allan Girdler

Harley-Davidson Sportster: Sixty Years Audiobook download free by Allan Girdler
  • Listen audiobook: Harley-Davidson Sportster: Sixty Years
  • Author: Allan Girdler
  • Release date: 2017/2/7
  • Publisher: MOTORBOOKS INTERNATIONAL
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780760352182
  • Rating: 9.79 of 10
  • Votes: 237
  • Review by: Arlo Fredericks
  • Review rating: 8.89 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/27
  • Duration: 2H15M56S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-14
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, OPUS, WAV, MP3, Apple Lossless, WMA, FLAC (compression AZW3, ZIP, ARJ, ACE, XZ, LZO, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 176
  • Includes a PDF summary of 14 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 10M31S (2.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Go on a 60-year ride with Harley-Davidson's Sportster Things got a little weird in the American motorcycle industry after World War II. People hungered for new motorcycles, buying just about everything manufacturers could build. But on rare occasions a manufacturer produced a machine that nobody wanted. Such was the case with the Harley-Davidson Model K. The Model K had most of the features buyers wanted in a modern machine, like hand-operated clutches, foot-operated shifters, and cool-running aluminum heads, but it lacked perhaps the most important technological upgrade: a modern overhead-valve valve-train design.The Model K retained the antiquated side-valve design because of arcane AMA racing rules written when Harley-Davidson and Indian competed head-to-head on American racetracks, but by 1952 Indian was on its last legs. This should have made the Model K a massive sales success. What nobody counted on was the British bike invasion. Thanks to their modern overhead-valve engines, the lightweight British bikes humiliated the side-valve Harleys on the track and on the street. Upgrades to the Model K didn't help; Harley finally relented and introduced a new overhead-valve middleweight for the 1957 model year. Dubbed the Sportster, it was everything the Model K was not. More importantly, it was faster than the British competition. Thus began the Sportster's sixty-year reign.Harley-Davidson Sportster: Sixty Years tells the complete Sportster story. Noted Sportster expert Allen Girdler covers all the bikes-the XLCH, Café Racer, XR1000, XLX, 883, Iron, Forty-Eight, Seventy-Two, and Nightster-that have made the Sportster one of the most iconic motorcycles on earth.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Motorcycles
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 40.68 USD
  • Dimensions: 243.84x282x20.32mm
  • Weight: 1,156.66g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Wisconsin, United States

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